0 a type of colourful European or North American bird
1 a bird found in many parts of North America, the male of which has bright black and orange or black and yellow feathers
For example, a flock of swallows or orioles are sometimes regarded as a scene of prosperity and sometimes perceived as a horde of women, even, derogatorily, as flirtatious women.
Other countries have the hoopee, the bee-eater and the oriole, and various birds of the same kind.
You may not keep a hoopoe in a cage, or a golden oriole, or a great grey shrike, but you may keep a ring dove or a kestrel in captivity.
The remains of 84 bird specimens of 18 different species, including motmots, doves, trogons, cuckoos, wrens and orioles, were discovered at one spectral bat roost.
The song of the moriche oriole is a squeaky whistling "heaaa-wheeooo-heaaa".
The food is insects and fruit, especially figs, found in the tree canopies where the orioles spend much of their time.
This area is rich in wildlife, including waterfowl, grebes, wrens, kingfishers, owls, orioles and woodpeckers.
This is thought to reduce aggression by the friarbirds against the smaller orioles.
