Golden orioles are becoming increasingly rare visitors to the UK. Birds in the UK don’t get much brighter than the golden oriole, Oriolus oriolus. Apart from their dark wings, the males are almost ...

The female and the immature can be confused with a dull Baltimore oriole. Female and immature hooded orioles are entirely yellow below, slimmer, and longer tailed and have a thin, downcurved bill.

1898 illustration of an oriole Ultimately, Loriod proved to be every bit as much of a muse to Messiaen as his beloved birds. Quite simply, he couldn’t have written Catalogue d’Oiseaux without her.

Kinara Dyer-Tuitt, a screenwriter, filmmaker, and performer at The Pauline Quirke Academy of Performing Arts (PQA) in ...