The Baltimore Oriole has been called many different names over the years, including Audubon's oriole, Hang-Nest, Baltimore-bird, English Robin, and Firebird. If you live in the Eastern United States near suitable habitat, you can attract this colorful bird to your feeder with a variety of foods, including suet, peanut butter, and fruit. 

Orioles build an elaborately woven nest of grass which hangs from the tips of tree branches. According to folklore, women had to keep careful watch over yarn hung out to bleach, because orioles would take it for nest construction. 

This colorful bird also incited the following bit of poetry by American playwright Edgar Fawcett (1847-1904):

How falls it, oriole, thou hast come to fly
In tropic splendor through our Northern sky?
At some glad moment was it Nature's choice
To dower a scrap of sunset with a voice?

A typical Baltimore Oriole weighs about 1.2 oz (33g). If you like to cook, that's the same as 3 chicken bouillon cubes! The length is much longer than the cubes, however, and orioles are almost 9" from the tip of the beak to the tip of the tail. 

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