Posted by kurt d on January 01, 1970 at 00:00:00
Spot breasted oriole disappeared for several reasons. Cooper's Hawks decimated them in Broward. The freezes in 2010 were brutal on them. We had them living around some fig trees in our yard in 1977, and after the freeze we never saw them again. And they don't seem to fare well in hurricanes either. They were fairly common at my farm, nesting every yearin several places, and Wilma in 2005 destroyed that group. It would be great to see them rebound, they are beautiful, interesting birds