Guide to North American Birds
Family Blackbirds and Orioles
In Mexico and Central America, this large oriole lives mostly in dry forest or semi-open woods of the foothills and lower mountain slopes. It has wandered north into Texas and Arizona on only a few occasions, but some of these strays have remained for months.

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Illustration © David Allen Sibley.
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Text © Kenn Kaufman, adapted from
Lives of North American Birds

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Songs and Calls

Weak “nyah”
Audio © Lang Elliott, Bob McGuire, Kevin Colver, Martyn Stewart and others.
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