Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!usc!cs.utexas.edu!rutgers!maverick.ksu.ksu.edu!matt.ksu.ksu.edu!drintoul From: drintoul@matt.ksu.ksu.edu (David A Rintoul) Newsgroups: rec.birds Subject: Re: Are oriole "feeders" fakes? Message-ID: <1991May27.163904.25487@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu> Date: 27 May 91 16:39:04 GMT References: Sender: news@maverick.ksu.ksu.edu (The News Guru) Organization: Kansas State University Lines: 15 Nntp-Posting-Host: matt.ksu.ksu.edu Orioles do drink from nectar feeders often, my oriole feeder is really a hummingbird feeder (with regular non-colored sugar water), and the local orioles come to it and sip from the red-flowered tips quite often. I suspect that it is true that you don't need an "oriole feeder" per se, since a hummer feeder will do quite nicely. In that sense, the oriole feeder sold to your sister is probably a rip-off, but it should actually work (i.e. attract orioles). In Australia and New Zealand local bird-feeders actually fill long shallow trays with sugar water to attract the many species of honeyeaters that live there; I suspect that the same sort of device could attract our orioles as well.