In her poem "To Hear an Oriole Sing," Emily Dickinson famously wrote "To hear an Oriole sing / May be a common thing— / Or only a divine." Miss Dickinson was almost certainly writing of the Baltimore Oriole, perhaps the most famous songster of the orioles appearing in North America.
What would Miss Dickinson have written about others of the oriole family, such as this pair of Hooded Orioles recently posted to the Wingscapes Photo Gallery by Pam from Redwood City, California? With their faster, choppy, and sometimes raspy sound, would the Hooded Orioles have inspired such praise?
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