Eurasian Golden Orioles by Ken _Gilliland
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Description
Another, and probably most common bird in the package, from "Orioles of the Old World".
The name "oriole" was first used in the 18th century and is an adaptation of the scientific Latin genus name, which is derived from the Classical Latin "aureolus" meaning golden. Various forms of "oriole" have existed in Romance languages since the 12th and 13th centuries. Albertus Magnus used the Latin form oriolus in about 1250 and erroneously stated that it was onomatopoeic because of the golden oriole's song. In medieval England, its name, derived from the song, was the woodwele.
The Eurasian Golden Oriole is found in western, central and Southern Europe (south from southern Finland) and northern Africa (Morocco to Tunisia) eastward to the Altai Mountains (southern Siberia, western Mongolia and extreme northwestern China) and, in the south, to northern Iran and locally to the northern Arabian Peninsula; non-breeding in sub-Saharan Africa.
Orioles are omnivorous; mainly eating small invertebrates and fruits. It will occasionally take seeds, nectar, pollen; rarely, small lizards, small mammals, eggs and nestlings. Orioles are dimorphic; female differ by being paler and having white and brown striped breasts/bellies.

Comments (3)
This is beautiful work!
Superb ! You really are a master..no, THE master where 3d birds are concerned.
A splendid nature scene, where your birds look right at home!