Michael Warren: Northern (Baltimore) Oriole

Artist: Michael Warren
1938 -
Nationality: British
Artwork Year: 1986
Image Size: 14 by 12 inches
Overall Size: 16 by 14 inches
Medium: Water Color on Water Color Paper

When George Calvert, the first Lord Baltimore, visited the settlement of Virginia, he found many birds along the Chesapeake. None, however, had beauty so breathtaking as the flame-colored birds, smaller than robins, which were later to bear his name. Much impressed, he took their colors, orange and black, for his coat of arms.

The Baltimore Oriole's nest is deep and is hung from the tips of the longest, most sweeping branches, where no cat would venture. One can help the feathered architects by putting out yarn and string which has been cut into lengths not exceeding ten or twelve inches so that the birds wil not get entangled in them. Their diet consists primarily of insects, however, they eagerly eat orange halves impaled on twigs.

Although the Oriole usually winter in the tropics, a few winter along the Atlantic Seaboard of the U.S., especially in North Carolina. As if following some unalterable schedule, they make their annual pilgrimage over tropical jungles, across or around the Gulf of Mexico, through the plantations of the Gulf States and ever northward until in early May they reach the elm-shaded towns of the Great Lakes, New England, and southern Canada, arriving within a day or two of the same date year after year.

This artwork was originally published on a Fleetwood® First Day Cover for the Birds of America Collection. Each Cover featured a State Wildlife Conservation Stamp designed by Michael Warren, issued by the National Audubon Society and postmarked on the First Day of Issue of each stamp which was also the anniversary of statehood for each state.

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