It blasted past me in Halloween colors and rose to perch among the branches of a streamside tree. I smiled as its orange and black feathering revealed its identity as readily as a name tag: northern ...

Lately, local baseball fans have been preoccupied with keeping the Orioles in Baltimore, as they anxiously await a new 30-year lease for the team to continue playing at Camden Yards. Perhaps fans ...

The only Baltimore Orioles most people see or know much about are the ones in Major League Baseball uniforms. The strikingly colorful male oriole bird is a beauty to behold, but you need to know when ...

WASHINGTON – U.S. Senator Ben Cardin (D-Md.), a senior member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, and U.S. Senator Rob Portman (R-Ohio), a member of the Senate Energy and Natural ...

(Beyond Pesticides, November 2, 2017) The Baltimore oriole (Icterus galbula) is Maryland’s state bird and the namesake of its professional baseball team. The Baltimore oriole (and all American orioles ...

Bruce Beehler is a naturalist and author, whose books include “Natural Encounters” and “Birds of Maryland, Delaware, and the District of Columbia.” Many Washingtonians feed the birds, especially in ...

The other day, I was in an upstairs room in our house west of Gilby, N.D., when I heard a familiar bird song. "Baltimore oriole," I thought. A glance out the window proved me wrong. The bird sitting ...