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BALTIMORE ORIOLE - Birds Canada 1959 Art Drawn PostcardEarly Colour Artist Signed Picture Postcard. Baltimore Oriole Bird. Icterus galbula. L'Oriole de Baltimore. Length, about 7.5 inches. Named after Lord Baltimore, the patron of the early settlement of Maryland, whose bright livery it wears, the Baltimore Oriole is a bird of the east, extending in Canada to the base of the Rockey Mountains. It is particularly a bird of the park lands, and great trees standing isolated or in clumps, especially elms, are its delight. Its nest is a work of art. Felted and woven of vegetable fibre, wool, string, or any kind of fluff, it forms a substantial deep bag suspended at the ends of long, lithe, or weeping bough tips where even the red squirrel dare not go. In the branches the brilliant male sings throughout the summer, demonstrating with its clear, flute-like whistles that bright feather and beautiful voice can go together. In the winter, while it is sojourning in the warmth of South America, its deserted nest whips and cracks at the ends of the long, lash-like stems, defying with its perfect workmanship the storms of successive seasons that scatter lesser structures in fragments over the ground.Publisher: National Museum of Canada Ottawa Series A
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