# What kind of BIRD?? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [February 14, 2013, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-bird/650340 "2013-02-14T23:08:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 3\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![CurtC](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ce73a5/32.png) [@CurtC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CurtC)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 6:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-bird/650340/21 "2014-12-22T06:42:26Z")
You sure about the location of the yellow bits? The size, location, and behavior you describe remind me of the hooded oriole. I saw them when I was in Cabo last year. ---
**Author:** ![Greg\_Charles](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/839c29/32.png) [@Greg\_Charles](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Greg_Charles)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 8:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-bird/650340/22 "2014-12-22T20:28:25Z")
> [@Baker](#): > > But I’m going to forward this thread to my sister who is an evid birder. :dubious: “Exactly so,” Humpty told Alice. “Well, then, ‘evid’ is ‘evil and avid’ (there’s another portmanteau for you).” (Paraphrased from _Through the Looking Glass_) ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-bird/650340/23 "2014-12-22T21:05:30Z")
> [@Greg\_Charles](#): > > :dubious: > > “Exactly so,” Humpty told Alice. “Well, then, ‘evid’ is ‘evil and avid’ (there’s another portmanteau for you).” Most avid birders are pretty evil :). I was just around a swarm of them ( king tides in CA this weekend ) and the poor park ranger trying to keep them out of protected wetland verges looked at times like he was herding cats. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-kind-of-bird/650340.md?page=1)