Hooded Orioles are sexually dimorphic. The male has an orange-yellow coloring with a black face, tail, wings and back. The wings on the bird will have two white bars of feathers. While the female has the same two white bars on her wings, her coloring is an olive-green with a yellowish shade underneath. Both male and female are the same in size, ranging from 112-128 cm (7-8 in.) long. The bill of the Hooded Oriole has a slight down curve that comes to a sharp point, enabling them to feed off tubular flowers (Readers Digest 1990).
Other Physical Features: endothermic ; bilateral symmetry
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Bibliographic Citation: Prichard, M. 2001. "Icterus cucullatus" (On-line), Animal Diversity Web. Accessed April 27, 2013 at
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