Hooded Oriole
Hooded Orioles are fairly large songbirds. The Hooded Oriole is another bird with regional color variations. In Texas and eastern Mexico, these birds can be flame orange, but in our area, they are bright yellow. In addition to their yellow bodies and caps, males will have a black throat that extends up around the eye and black wings with a large white wingbar. Females are more olive-yellow with gray backs and gray wings with a thin white wingbar. Juvenile males have a similar olive-yellow coloring of the adult female, but they will have black throats like the adult males.
Another interesting characteristic of the Hooded Oriole is their downward curving and somewhat pointy bill. They use it to probe flowers for nectar and snag insects, but they’ll also use it to visit hummingbird feeders to drink the sugar-water.