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I agree with what has been said about this oriole - it's not (sigh) Scott's - belied by tail pattern, limited black black on throat, not on breast, etc. But, I do believe that it is genuinely yellow - as claimed by the photographer. There is a hint of orange on the tail, but otherwise I don't think any undersaturated red could be rescued by image manipulation. We've had red Baltimore Orioles before that resulted from overindulgence in certain alien garden fruits, and I suppose the condition of this one might have been driven by an inherent difficulty with synthsizing red pigments, or a dietary deficiency. Cheers, Ian Ian McLaren
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