{"id":548,"date":"2006-05-12T07:00:06","date_gmt":"2006-05-12T14:00:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/05\/12\/bullocks-oriole-male\/"},"modified":"2006-05-11T18:14:51","modified_gmt":"2006-05-12T01:14:51","slug":"bullocks-oriole-male","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/05\/12\/bullocks-oriole-male\/","title":{"rendered":"Bullock&#8217;s Oriole, Male"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.birds.cornell.edu\/AllAboutBirds\/BirdGuide\/Bullocks_Oriole_dtl.html\">Bullock&#8217;s Orioles (Icterus bullockii)<\/a> are the most common oriole I see in my yard here in Tucson. Male Bullock&#8217;s Orioles are a bright orange and black with a characteristic black throat, black eye-stripe, and a white wing patch.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/May\/Icterus-bullockii-1.jpg\" alt=\"Bullock's Oriole (Icterus bullockii) in a Silk Oak or Silkoak (Grevillea robusta)\" title=\"Bullock's Oriole (Icterus bullockii) in a Silk Oak or Silkoak (Grevillea robusta)\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Female Bullock&#8217;s Orioles are a duller gray and yellow color, and they are more difficult to identify than the flashy males.<\/p>\n<p>Bullock&#8217;s Orioles enjoy flower nectar, and one of their favorite flowers are these nectar-filled, orange <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2005\/05\/07\/silkoak\/\">Silkoak (Grevillea robusta)<\/a> flowers.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/images\/firefly\/2006\/May\/Icterus-bullockii-2.jpg\" alt=\"Bullock's Oriole (Icterus bullockii) in a Silk Oak or Silkoak (Grevillea robusta)\" title=\"Bullock's Oriole (Icterus bullockii) in a Silk Oak or Silkoak (Grevillea robusta)\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" class=\"post-photo\" \/><\/p>\n<p>With their fondness for sweet treats, Bullock&#8217;s Orioles will also happily feed on halved oranges and visit oriole feeders filled with sugar water. Oriole feeders are actually just modified hummingbird feeders with perches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bullock&#8217;s Orioles (Icterus bullockii) are the most common oriole I see in my yard here in Tucson. Male Bullock&#8217;s Orioles are a bright orange and black with a characteristic black throat, black eye-stripe, and a white wing patch. Female Bullock&#8217;s Orioles are a duller gray and yellow color, and they are more difficult to identify&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/2006\/05\/12\/bullocks-oriole-male\/\" class=\"more-link\">Read More &rarr; <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arizona-birds"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fireflyforest.net\/firefly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}