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a black-and-orange flame that builds hanging sock-puppet nests and ditches winter entirely.
means A brightly colored songbird with bold orange or yellow and black plumage, known for weaving distinctive hanging, pouch-like nests.
from From Latin 'aureolus,' meaning 'golden' — a diminutive of 'aurum,' gold — which gave Old French 'oriol' and eventually English 'oriole.' The bird was literally named for looking gilded. (Note: New World orioles, despite sharing the name, aren't closely related to the Old World ones — European settlers just slapped the familiar golden name on a familiar-looking bird.)
- woven nest
- females stitch hanging pouches that take a week
- jelly fiends
- they crave grape jelly and orange halves
- not blackbirds
- named after Old World birds they barely resemble
- long haul
- some migrate to Central America each fall
- baseball icon
- baltimore's team and state bird both
baltimore orioles — mlb team established 1901, won world series 1966, 1970
golden oriole — bird species with bright yellow plumage found across europe and asia
baltimore oriole — north american songbird, maryland state bird, orange and black coloring