10,000 Birds
JANUARY 6, 2024
We met Marilyn and Leonardo at a non-descript fast-food joint’s parking lot and within 10 minutes we were in Parque Nacional La Estanzuela. Amazingly, everyone showed up at dawn except for one person, who’d had a near-death experience with me on Colombia’s Sumapaz paramo, an acceptable excuse for a no-show.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2021
Fast food containers are popular. “An Five hatchling House Sparrows in a Happy Meal box,” said Johanna Walton, also in Connecticut. They had nothing else to put him in.”. An almost fledgling American Kestrel stuffed in a large Dunkin’ Donuts paper coffee cup,” wrote Michelle Wellard in Philadelphia.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2012
With the proliferation of those erstwhile invaders, House Sparrow , European Starling , and Rock Pigeon , there a lot of homogeneity among these species, which is a shame because what parking lot birds generally lack in beauty they more than make up for in charisma. Though, admittedly, Clark’s Nutcracker would be alright too.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2016
House Sparrow, Eurasian Collared Dove and Laughing Dove are abundant and vie to distract the eye at every turn. A couple of roads cut back through the circle to the central area which boasts a fast food restaurant, a mosque and toilets. .
10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2016
He came out, we grabbed coffees and his car, and awaited the arrival of the third member of our impromptu twitching team, young birding wunderkind Adrian Burke (who I first met when twitching this bird ), fresh off his discovery of multiple Seaside Sparrows by the bike path on the west side of Manhattan a couple of days earlier.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 29, 2012
Common Myna , a fairly recent introduction, is practically a specialist in dumpster diving at fast food joints, roosting under vehicles near shopping malls, and nesting in neon store signs.
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