It primarily forages in dense vegetation looking for a wide range of foods that includes fruits, insects, lizards, and nuts and grains.

The tawny color offers a selective advantage to the adolescents since by helping with camouflage in the dense forest.

Both males and females of the Puerto Rican oriole sing with no obvious difference in song structure.

The song of the Puerto Rican oriole is composed of clicks or "high pitched whistles" [4] and has a frequency range between 3.6 and 5.3 kHz.

[7] However, in 2009, Price, Lanyon, and Omland conducted a study that shows that both males and females of many tropical orioles sing.

[9] The research theorizes that the prevalence of female song correlates to a tropical lifestyle wherein there is increased female-female competition and territory defense that necessitates such communication.