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FEATHRUARY 2025

Prompt 16: Backyard
-> Baltimore Oriole

The 4th and final week of #feathruary has started! And the first prompt I tackled was "backyard".

Granted, I will never see one of these beauties in my backyard, but since I have already drawn every German backyard birb at least once, I looked on and eventually landed (ha!) on this one.

Baltimore orioles are quite common in North America, where they live in the Nearctic during summer and migrate to winter in the Neotropics.

Because of their beautiful colour and song, people grew very fond of them and arranged special oriole feeders in their backyards; orioles discovered those and lead their young ones there, resulting in them becoming popular backyard birbs.

They mainly feed on fruit and nectar, but unlike other fruit-eating birbs, they prefer very ripe fruit, picking only the darkest and juciest berries for example. They also like to mlem on halved oranges and have been observed to be fond of grape jelly. So, if you live near them and want to attract them, you know what to do. :D

FUN FACT
The Baltimore oriole gets its name from 17th century Lord Baltimore. Their colours match those of Lord Baltimore's coat-of-arms, hence the name. Today, it is the state birb of Maryland and namesake and mascot for the Maryland Baltimores, a baseball team.

#feathruary #feathruary2025 #bird #birds #birb #birbs #birdart #digitalart #oriole #orioles #baltimoreoriole #maryland
A Baltimore Oriole, a colourful bird with a blueish-grey beak, dark-grey head with black markings, black and white wings, yellow back and reddish-orange body, in front of a black-eyed susan flower on the red and white half of the Maryland flag, cartoon style.
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Fabulous days amongst the flow of #Migratory #Raptors #Storks for guests from Naturetrek Wildlife Holidays AND connecting with all 5 species of #Swift - Alpine, Pallid, Common, Little and today 3 White-rumped #Swifts ! ☺️

Plus vagrant adult Rüppell’s Vulture, Rufous-tailed Scrub Robins in-the-face ! Gull-billed Terns and Slender-billed Gulls hawking overhead, colourful Eurasian Golden #Orioles and migrating European Bee-eaters and feisty White-headed Ducks and at the nest Isabelline #Warblers!

Juvenile Black Kite in active migration ©️ Inglorious Bustards
Little Swift ©️ Inglorious Bustards
Rufous-tailed Scrub Robin ©️ Inglorious Bustards
Gull-billed Tern ©️ Inglorious Bustards
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