The pensile nest of the oriole is more striking and peculiar, as well as much more neat than any other. From Wordnik.com. [Rural Hours] Reference
The oriole is the easiest to hear, but in the background is the wood thrush. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Tampa Bay Rays (8-3) at Boston Red Sox (4-7), 1:35 p.m.] Reference
Besides all this, the oriole is a neighborly little body; and that helps her. From Wordnik.com. [Ways of Wood Folk] Reference
"Somebody in a book called the oriole Orestes, because that means dweller in the woods," Tom ventured. From Wordnik.com. [Tom Slade on Mystery Trail] Reference
Baltimore won for the first The oriole is the easiest to hear, but in the background is the wood thrush. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Tampa Bay Rays (8-3) at Boston Red Sox (4-7), 1:35 p.m.] Reference
The oriole is a timid bird and is glad to rear up its family under the aegis of so doughty a warrior as the Black Prince of the Birds. From Wordnik.com. [A Bird Calendar for Northern India] Reference
One of these is a honeysucker named Tropidorhynchus bouruensis, and the other a kind of oriole, which has been called Mimeta bouruensis. From Wordnik.com. [The Malay Archipelago, the land of the orang-utan and the bird of paradise; a narrative of travel, with studies of man and nature — Volume 2] Reference
The oriole is the best. From Wordnik.com. [Friends and Helpers] Reference
The oriole is a master weaver. From Wordnik.com. [Friends and Helpers] Reference
The nest of the oriole is a wonderful structure. From Wordnik.com. [A Bird Calendar for Northern India] Reference
I did have an oriole, which was caught when very young. From Wordnik.com. [Harper's Young People, February 17, 1880 An Illustrated Weekly] Reference
Where the whippoorwill shall mourn, where the oriole perches. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 08, No. 46, August, 1861] Reference
From the treetop come the sweet songs of the oriole and robin. From Wordnik.com. [Conservation Reader] Reference
A lifelong Baltimore oriole fan, so you do have current depression. From Wordnik.com. [CNN Transcript Jul 6, 2007] Reference
That in the tree an oriole called, warning Buncake away from her nest. From Wordnik.com. [the secret sense]
In this close scrutiny Lara noted the space beneath the oriole window. From Wordnik.com. [Death Blow]
What would spring be without the bluebird, or June without the oriole?. From Wordnik.com. [Friends and Helpers] Reference
He could color an oriole, but not the corolla of this queen of the woods. From Wordnik.com. [Lippincott's Magazine, August, 1885] Reference
The oriole frequently ties several twigs together, and so uses these to suspend his nest. From Wordnik.com. [Bird Day; How to prepare for it] Reference
Outside an oriole made a long slender note, broke it, and let the fragments fall through the shining air. From Wordnik.com. [More Than Human]
The oriole, the swallow, the sparrow, the cawing crow, the chipmuck, or the squirrel will not desert him. From Wordnik.com. [The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 5, May, 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy] Reference
He was an orchard oriole, and after looking on for a while, he came down and carried off the hopper to eat. From Wordnik.com. [Types of Children's Literature] Reference
That the oriole should do this was not surprising, considering its known habits in relation to some other flowers. From Wordnik.com. [Scientific American Supplement, No. 841, February 13, 1892] Reference
The golden oriole is apt at learning, is clever at making a living, but is awkward in flight and has an ugly plumage. From Wordnik.com. [The History of Animals] Reference
Silver oriole (Oriolus traillii) is a restricted range species that visits forested hillsides during the summer months. From Wordnik.com. [Jian Nan subtropical evergreen forests] Reference
Ayla heard the beautiful flutelike note of a golden oriole, and gave it back, mimicking so exactly it confused the bird. From Wordnik.com. [The Mammoth Hunters]
Researchers in Luzon feared that Isabela oriole was extinct until two recent reports of its existence in northern Luzon. From Wordnik.com. [Luzon rain forests] Reference
The Hoopoe, or golden oriole, for instance, and many other rare birds, would nest, and, indeed, do nest here when allowed. From Wordnik.com. [Practical Taxidermy A manual of instruction to the amateur in collecting, preserving, and setting up natural history specimens of all kinds. To which is added a chapter upon the pictorial arrangement of museums. With additional instructions in modelling and artistic taxidermy.] Reference
Here is what happens when someone without a zoom lens tries to take a picture of an oriole through the screen on her window. From Wordnik.com. [roots and flowers, a pocket to hold the universe] Reference
The oriole goes off at six, the dove at seven, the chickadee at eight, then cardinals, sparrows, nuthatches, and so on around the dial. From Wordnik.com. [Confessions of a Lousy Bird Watcher] Reference
Wherever one turned, from every direction came the note of the golden oriole and the shrill cry of the hoopoe and the red-legged falcon. From Wordnik.com. [The Wife] Reference
One looks in vain in these pages for any good description of the song-sparrow, the blue-bird, the blue-jay, the kingfisher, or the oriole. From Wordnik.com. [The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867] Reference
The child promised nothing; but you could not help admiring her, as you admire the sudden, soft cry of the oriole at evening, in the lofty, dark birch-wood. From Wordnik.com. [The Diary of a Superfluous Man and other stories] Reference
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