This is bird note. The Baltimore Orioles is a standout bird with adult males

electric orange and jet black feathers and females in

immature birds in various shades of yellow and orange.

It's no surprise that these birds show up in art,

illustrations, and on the uniforms of Baltimore's baseball team.

But they're not the only Orioles worth knowing.

Orioles in the Americas belong to the Blackbird family and there are many of them.

The aptly named Orchard Orioles is never far from a fruit snack during fall and winter. The The hooded oriel lives in northern Mexico and the southwest U.S.

They have a neck for hanging their woven nests onto the bottom surface of palm fronds.

But that's just the start.

Many islands in the Caribbean have their own oriole.

There's the Jamaican oriel, the Bahama

orial, the Sant Lusha orial, the Puerto Rican orial, the list goes on and on.

Meeting all those Orioles would be the work of a lifetime.

For Bird Note, I'm Michael Stein.