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golden oriole
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golden oriole
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(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) a European oriole, Oriolus oriolus, the male of which has a bright yellow head and body with black wings and tail
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Noun1.golden oriole - bright yellow songbird with black wingsgolden oriole - bright yellow songbird with black wings
Oriolus oriolus
Old World oriole, oriole - mostly tropical songbird; the male is usually bright orange and black
genus Oriolus, Oriolus - type genus of the Oriolidae
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For the avian-fauna, there are golden orioles, jungle owlets, minivets, racket-tailed drongos, magpies and robins here along with hornbills, magpies, sunbirds, bulbuls, woodpeckers and the peacock.
Sanjay Ghandi National Park Tourism and Wildlife by Dave Text / Travel, recreation and leisure community
Bardsey Island hosted black redstarts, golden orioles and an icterine warbler, though rarer was a paddyfield warbler ringed on the Dee's Hilbre Island.
bird notes by Daily Post (Liverpool, England)
These books make ideal summer reading for many reasons; perhaps the mood in which they were written provides the first: "I was quite happy in my writing room, with golden orioles outside the window or nightingales, those overrated birds, and once to utter astonishment a wryneck within a hand's reach, intent upon its breakfast.
Master and Commander by Finn, Molly / Commonweal
 
 
 
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