(Northern Oriole) 

 A.O.U. Checklist 1983 



37 



Baltimore Oriole' A . 0 . U.NO . -507 

 (Ieterus galbula) 



DATE - May 20, 1933 



NEST DIMENSIONS- 



NO.- 



INCUBATION- 



;al 

 "ran 



2fx3 



ri 



Fresh 



0.89 x 0.60 

 SIZES - o.90 x 0.61 



0.90 x 0.60 



SITUATION - I was walking through a grove 

 of large yellow poplars in Bullitt Park (Big 

 Stone Gap) when I was attracted by the 

 whistle of a male of this species. Knowing 

 it was the nesting season, I sat down to 

 watch him. He soon flew to one of thepromin-J 

 ent limbs that hung down toward the ground m 

 and proceeded to join the female who was busy 

 adding to the half- finished nest hanging 

 from the tip of that limb. I watched fasci- 

 nated by their work and after a while I had 

 to go on home -about § mile away. 



Two weeks later I returned with 

 a friend who kindly helped me collect this 

 nest with its three eggs : Since the nest was 

 at least 40 * from the ground, I had decided 

 to try to sever the twig which supported the 

 nest with my .22 rifle and hope the bed sheet 

 we had suspended would lessen the impact of 

 the fall of the nest and thus protect the sgg 

 eggs. We did just that and lost only one of 

 the beautiful eggs. The three that we did get 

 were grayish white with slight gloss and were 

 etched, scrawled, and streaked with several 

 shades of brown and black. They were also 

 oval in shape and fresh. 



The nest was a lovely creation 

 of dull and silvery plant fibers neatly 

 woven together and around the small suppor- 

 ting xmaxi forked limb, which was theterminal 

 end of that entire large limb. The nest was 



globular, had a top entrance, and was. lined 

 with finer grasses and long black hair. 



