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Request for Information => Bird ID => Topic started by: Dinusaur on May 27, 2014, 09:20:26 PM

Title: Baltimore Oriole - First Year Male?
Post by: Dinusaur on May 27, 2014, 09:20:26 PM

Help please. Couldn't find anything similar looking on web for a first year male.

(https://farm3.staticflickr.com/2926/14287234915_c11d9db660_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nLvPbt)

Title: Re: Baltimore Oriole - First Year Male?
Post by: Rotarran on May 27, 2014, 09:40:12 PM

That's definitely a tanager...maybe a yellow form of the Scarlet Tanager?  I'm curious to see what the others say.

Title: Re: Baltimore Oriole - First Year Male?
Post by: beresford on May 27, 2014, 10:46:45 PM

It looks like an orange variant to me. Gotta love the scarlet tanager.

Tim

Title: Re: Baltimore Oriole - First Year Male?
Post by: Dinusaur on May 28, 2014, 07:11:23 AM

Thank you both for chipping in. The bright yellow-orange color fooled me; I forgot to look at its overall shape to see the difference between a Tanager and an Oriole. By the way the bird was in the neighborhood of a more deeper orange looking Tanager. Both were taken on the 18th of May at Lynde Shore.

(https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5071/14289484654_401824ea7a_z.jpg) (https://flic.kr/p/nLHkX5)

Title: Re: Baltimore Oriole - First Year Male?
Post by: Bird Brain on May 28, 2014, 08:05:55 AM

Quote from: "beresford"

It looks like an orange variant to me. Gotta love the scarlet tanager.

Tim

Yes, orange variant Scarlet Tanager. 8)

Dinusaur ... cute photo, amazing how much yellow he has!