Female Oriole? What is this? (1 Viewer)

[corralup]

This one is hanging out with the Baltimore Orioles. I just don't have a clue.

Thanks!!!!!!

There's two white bars on the wings if that helps.
Also I live in South East Texas near Galveston. It's migration time for many tanagers, orioles, buntings, grosbeaks.

 

[pudman13]

Looks like a female Baltimore Oriole to me, though I can't for the life of me tell the difference between a female Baltimore Oriole and a female Orchard Oriole.

 

[Cardamom Pod]

I would guess orchard.

 

[Larry Lade]

Female Baltimore Oriole. It is larger (by about one inch), has a larger bill and is generally more orangish/yellow than the yellowish female Orchard Oriole.

 

[corralup]

Excellent. Thanks!

 

[JANJ]

To me corralup's oriole looks better for Orchard.
The reasons for that is the lemon yellow on all of the underparts, shortailed impression, slimmer bill with a slightly curved dark upper mandible and dar-tipped lower with a pale inner part.
Best judged in image 2. There seems to be some damage or feather loss at the bas of the upper mandible, which might contribue to the impression of a longer bill.
Further more, the pale wingbars are roughly equally broad and the lower on the greater coverts are more well-defined usually the upper is obviously broader in Baltimore.

http://www.birdforum.net/showthread.php?t=114603&highlight=baltimore+oriole


http://www.pbase.com/rhopper/image/93664506

JanJ

 

[Microtus]

I was thinking Orchard Oriole too, yesterday. The bill doesn't look right for Baltimore, and the underparts are uniformly lemon-yellow, as outlined by JanJ above.

 

[Birdingcraft]

My first impression was also female Orchard. Saw a few hundred of these migrating along the Caribbean coast of Costa Rica a month ago.

 

[Jim M.]

the underparts are uniformly lemon-yellow, as outlined by JanJ above.

Well, to me, the bird looks distinctly orange in the second photo. But it looks yellow in the rest, so assuming the same bird, I'd go along with Orchard and consider second photo to have color distortion. But just wanted to point this out in defense of those who were thinking Baltimore.

Best,
Jim