Bird ID

[Denny G]

Can someone help identify these. They came to our humming bird feeder this morning. The second has a band on the leg.

[cfcRebel]

1st one looks like a male Hooded Oriole. 2nd one is a Audubon's Oriole maybe?

[downywp]

Pic#1 Hooded Oriole, pic#2 looks more like Scott's Oriole to me, hard to tell for sure without seeing the side wingbars though...

[canonloader]

Nice looking birds. I'm waiting for the Oriole's to come back here. :)

[Denny G]

Thanks for the ID. I never thought other birds fed at a humming bird feeder.


Denny G

[stevefossimages]

The first certainly is an adult male hooded oriole. The second on first blush appeared to me to be an adult male Scott's oriole, but I'm not so sure. It also shows some marks of an adult male Audubon's oriole.

The Scott's adult male shows black all the way down its neck and back, and this bird does not, even though part of the back is clearly visible — and clearly green. The adult male Scott's also sports white median coverts, and this bird does not (and if they were there, they'd be visible from this angle). The green back and lack of white median coverts say Audubon's to me.

The only thing that may say Scott's is that black on the chest goes somewhat farther down the breast than my guides show for the Audubon's.

On balance, I'm leaning pretty strongly toward Audubon's.

Where EXACTLY along the border country did you see this bird? The Audubon's range is much tighter than the Scott's, and is farther east.

[Denny G]

These two were in my Mother's back yard in Del Rio, Texas.

DG

[stevefossimages]

Thanks, Denny. The Scott's would be much more common in Del Rio than the Audubon's. I'm still leaning toward Audubon's because of the field marks and because accidental Audubon's sightings have been recorded north and west of its typical range.

[guitarman3]

DG, thanks for posting these. More new species for me to learn!