A male Baltimore oriole bird has a full black hood and fiery ... brown feathers and dark barred wings. Male Baltimore orioles develop their notable orange and black plumage in their second year ...

You’d join your fellow colonizers in naming the bird a Baltimore ... Males have golden-orange undersides, shimmering black hoods and backs, and black wings with white wing bars.

Long wings; relatively short tail; straight, sharply pointed largely blue-gray bill with a blackish culmen; blue-gray legs. Adult Male: black eye line, crown, nape, and back. Bright orange ...