With bright yellow and jet-black feathers, highly animated and vocal behavior, the hooded oriole brings energy and life to backyard bird feeders ... to straggle back to California in late February ...

(Courtesy of Wild Birds Unlimited) For most people, the hooded oriole is the more familiar ... local nests are found almost exclusively in California fan palms, a tree native to Southern ...

Bird nests can vary from crude and simple to intricate and complex. Predators, weather, habitat and the availability of ...

DEAR JOAN: I didn’t know we had orioles in California! Two of my dad’s tours ... Altamira, Audubon’s, hooded and the streak-backed. I’m guessing the ones you saw during your father ...

The California bird had distinguishing features of both ... DNA would be the best way to determine the bird’s lineage, he said. Female hooded oriole, one of the several possible oriole ...

Kris Bay Area DEAR KRIS: I’m guessing the birds in question are California towhees ... DEAR JOAN: We have had hooded orioles raising a family at our feeders for years, but never in March.