基本信息出版社：Workman Publishing Company
页码：50 页
出版日期：1998年10月
ISBN：0761113975
International Standard Book Number：0761113975
条形码：9780761113973
EAN：0019628113979/9780761113973
装帧：日常用品
正文语种：英语
丛书名：Fandex : Family Field Guides
外文书名：鸟
内容简介 The Fandex Family publishing series continues with this bird field guide, with bright colors and realistic, die-cut profiles identifying 47 wild birds in North America.
作者简介 Michael Robbins is a writer and a former editor of Audubon and Oceans magazines and the author of Birds: A Family Field Guide.
媒体推荐 "Instant fun... you'll always have an answer when the kids wail: "I don't have anything to do..." -- Boston Herald
文摘 BALTIMORE ORIOLE
Icterus galbula
Halloween comes to mind when a male Baltimore oriole, with its flame-orange and black plumage, flashes into view. By late October, however, this songbird may be seen only occasionally at feeders, as it migrates in colorful flocks from its summer territory throughout the East, It's named not for the Maryland port city on Chesapeake Bay, but for its color scheme, which is the same as that of Lord Baltimore's family, the 17th century founders of the Maryland colony.
Other orioles - Bullock's in the West, the spotted in Florida, and the orchard throughout the East and South - are similar in size, coloration, habits, and diet. Indeed they're known to interbreed and produce hybrids.
Orioles are most commonly seen in broken woodlands, forest edges, parks, open fields, garden, and at feeders. They forage for a wide variety of insects and spiders, and also like berries, other fruits, and flowers nectar.
Versatile singers, orioles can chatter like squirrels, whistle a long melody, and deliver a somewhat forlorn two-note call.
Field Notes
Habitat: Wooded areas, parkland in city, suburb, and country, alongside roads and streams.
Range: Everywhere east of the Rockies except the lower Atlantic seaboard and the Gulf Coast. Bullock's oriole is found throughout the western states.
Diet: Insects and spiders of all kinds, fruits, flower nectar.
Nest: Sack of fibrosis materials suspended at the end of a drooping branch in a deciduous tree.
Eggs: Usually 3 to 5; blue-gray to white with some darker markings.
Status: Not threatened.
(From Northern Cardinal) "Cardinalis cardinalis"
With its brilliant red livery, black face, conical bill and prominent crest, this cardinal is one of the most familiar birds east of the Rocky Mountains. Surely the most readily identified wild bird in the U.S., this is the official state bird of Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, Virginia, and West Virgin
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