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OCTOBER 13, 2015

You know a bird is beautiful when Robert Tory Peterson describes it as a “ sparrow dipped in raspberry juice.” per year ; between 1966 and 2010 their numbers declined by almost 50%. ” New Hampshire must have thought the same, for they voted the Purple Finch the state bird in 1957.

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MAY 12, 2015

Though they can have more than one successful brood each year, in the early 20th century their populations were decimated by invasive European Starlings and House Sparrows. With competition for nesting sites diminished, the bluebirds rebounded, and their populations have been growing by 2% every year between 1966 and 2010.

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New York New York City United States Birds 160

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MAY 3, 2012

Queens, New York, May 2010 At one time there was an airport in northern Queens called Flushing Airport. a warning to unwary birders… Flushing Airport should not be birded alone … This post was originally published on 12 May 2010 but a post like this shouldn’t be left to languish in the archives !

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New York City New York Birds Homelessness 156

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MAY 15, 2012

Two of the four Lark Sparrows I have seen in Queens Two out of ten is not good enough, leaving me smack-dab on the Mendoza Line. Here they are in chronological order: Grasshopper Sparrow - 21 May 2011 – A bird I wasn’t even thinking of until I found one singing at Edgemere Landfill. I must do better!

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Connecticut 2011 2012 Jamaica 185

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MARCH 24, 2012

Besides Red-winged Blackbirds I was also serenaded throughout the morning by American Robins , Song Sparrows , Northern Cardinals , and White-throated Sparrows. … This post was originally published on 09 March 2010, but we hate to keep posts this good buried in the archives ! ……… a.

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Chickens Birds Blackbirds 2010 170

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MAY 21, 2011

These birds were enticingly smaller than the House Sparrows that just fledged, so I grabbed my downstairs bins (you also have optocs stashed strategically throughout your house, right?) All photos in this post come from Corey’s June 2010 experience of Wood-Warblers at the Forest Park Waterhole. and took a gander.

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Nashville Tennessee 2010 Canada 196

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APRIL 2, 2013

Corey did just this in this 2011 posting about Vesper Sparrow Pooecetes gramineus in New York State. You can see the Species Account for Henslow’s Sparrow above, in the banner photo. The chart of breeding bird survey data goes up, up, up, particularly for the period from 1990 to 2010.

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 251

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MARCH 7, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Relying on the Kindness of Birders (and Reflecting on the Muckrace) Coromandel and Miranda Our Top 10 Birding Moments of 2010 Where Are You Birding This Final Weekend of December 2010? Exodus: The Migration of Saw-whet Owls in North America.Or Also, note your use of the word “promising candidates&# !

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Peru 2011 Deer Birds 220

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MARCH 6, 2011

On Sunday at Kissena Park I saw five species of sparrows. A mixed species flock of sparrows (american tree, field and chipping) was by the bike track parking lot. Also present in other parts of the park were fox and white-throated sparrows. Where Are You Birding This First Weekend of March 2011?

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2011 New York Deer Birds 159

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MARCH 11, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Audubon Rebrand Don’t Be a Slob Birder First I and the Bird of 2010 is Coming… Liben Lark Gets a Lifeline “Science Versus Snake Oil&# About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens.

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2011 Deer New York Birds 145

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MARCH 23, 2020

315 – Western Tanager , 25 November 2017: I’ve been predicting one of these since 2010 and it finally came true a mere seven years later. But if I can get a Henslow’s Sparrow in Queens why not a Sedge Wren ? Seawatching paid off and I have to remember that if I want to keep adding new seabirds. (1 1 out of 2!).

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2018 2015 Birds 2019 172

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JANUARY 7, 2020

Though the third-most densely populated county in the United States (as of the 2010 census, thank you Wikipedia), about 25% of Bronx land is open, public space. ” This makes a lot more sense once you know a little more about the area and its history.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 169

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MARCH 18, 2011

Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of August 2010) Commence Project FeederWatch 2006 Best Bird of the Weekend (Halloween Edition) Discerning Distant Ducks About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. Community conservation – valuing what’s around us.Or

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Honduras 2011 Deer Birds 158

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MARCH 17, 2011

Or These Blasts From The Past A Birding High For Lowe’s Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of March 2011) Bird-Blogging Against Racism Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of March 2010) Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of December 2010?

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2011 Birds Deer South Dakota 150

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JULY 11, 2021

Hope Cemetery was much improved by a number of Chipping Sparrows and a single errant baby Snapping Turtle. But everything else paled in comparison to his first Black-bellied Whistling-Duck in Queens since 2010. Such a great bird for the northeastern United States was easily his Best Bird of the Weekend!

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United States Turtles 2010 Birds 264

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FEBRUARY 4, 2012

In 2010 I saw 269 species in New York without really working at it until near the end of the year, so I thought with a little more effort I might get to 300 species in 2011. The Harris’s Sparrow in Dryden. He kindly agreed to answer ten questions via email about this big year and this post is the result.

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New York Puerto Rico 2011 Japan 188

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2015

Henslow’s Sparrow – Considering the decline that this bird has had in the eastern part of its range it is kind of a miracle that one was at Fort Tilden to be seen and considering how skulky they are it was even more of a miracle that it was found and identified. Eurasian Wigeon, 3 Jul 2010, 11 Apr 2011, 5 Nov 2011.

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JANUARY 24, 2012

It was the year 2010. Of anger, fear, aggressioon… the dark side are they. Once you start down the dark path, forever will it dominate your… ahem. Let me start from the beginning. One Seagull Steve was living in San Francisco, on a birding hiatus. Who wants to go to Newfoundland in January anyways?

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San Francisco Sea Lions California Lions 163

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MARCH 5, 2013

Based on The Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America , published in 2010, the New Stokes regional guides aim for more portability and ease of use in the field. The index is comprehensively excellent, including notable subspecies such as Dusky Seaside Sparrow and Sooty Fox Sparrow. Now, on to the books.

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Birds North America Groups Falcons 183

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MARCH 11, 2011

Which, naturally, got me to thinking about the newly erected order Suliformes, a development I mentioned in my December column, 2010′s Top 10 Developments in Bird Taxonomy and Systematics , but which I thought deserved further examination, for it’s one of those stories that defines the era in which we are living and birding.

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2011 Pelicans Papua New Guinea Birds 160

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MARCH 20, 2011

Waterfowl Without End Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of August 2010) About the Author Clare M Clare and her husband Grant have lived permanently in Broome, Western Australia since 1999 after living in various outback locations around Western Australia and Darwin. The Fine Art of Pishing What Is The Audubon Society Anyway?

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2011 Australia Deer China 150

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MARCH 4, 2011

Gulls in Larnaca, taken 22/02/2010 by ©Stavros Christodoulides Recognizing that gull identification is confusing doesn’t help your average birdwatcher however. Of course you could bring in here the debate over the whole subspecies concept: there are over 20 of these in the Herring gull-Lesser black-backed gull complex, so.

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2011 Cyprus Species Deer 157

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MARCH 21, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of March 2010? Looking at the Queens Bird List Again Ducks Winding Up Migration Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of November 2010? The Nuttall’s Woodpecker Tufted Duck at Cold Spring Harbor, New York The northern southern Woodpecker.Or

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New York Woodpeckers Jordan 2011 218

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DECEMBER 30, 2013

3 July 2010 31 October 2010 11 April 2011 15 May 2012. Le Conte’s Sparrow – 15 Dec 2012 – This was a self-found life bird at Edgemere Landfill that, frustratingly, did not show up for the Queens Christmas Bird Count the next day.

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2012 2013 New York City Jamaica 158

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DECEMBER 31, 2011

On this final day of 2011 it is time, just like it was on the final day of 2010 , to share your Best Birds of the Year. We were walking through a field of dry grass in a Hamilton County park, looking for sparrows and pursuing three Bobolinks when we flushed a Yellow Rail , literally right at our feet.

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2011 Birds Ohio North Dakota 163

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DECEMBER 4, 2018

Even more than warbler, shorebird, and sparrow identification, this is a field that tests our endurance (gull watching is too often done in bitter cold, windy conditions), patience (even getting one good photo can take hours as you try to separate the ‘interesting gull’ from the flock), observational skills (so many plumages!)

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North America America El Salvador Nicaragua 213

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DECEMBER 7, 2021

Plop in the middle of the sparrow section I found the Sparrow Nest Quick-Look Chart, a 2-page spread listing sparrow species and columns for nest placement, habitat, and unmarked eggs (an identification characteristic). To be fair, the Sparrow Chart is cited in the sparrow family group write-up, but it could be easily missed.).

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Eggs Birds United States Sparrows 257

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JANUARY 5, 2019

Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark – Eremopterix nigriceps. Rufous-winged Sparrow – Peucaea carpalis. Stripe-headed Sparrow – Peucaea ruficauda. Cassin’s Sparrow – Peucaea cassinii. Grasshopper Sparrow – Ammodramus savannarum. Olive Sparrow – Arremonops rufivirgatus.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113

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DECEMBER 1, 2018

Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark – Eremopterix nigriceps. Stripe-headed Sparrow – Peucaea ruficauda. Cassin’s Sparrow – Peucaea cassinii. Grasshopper Sparrow – Ammodramus savannarum. Olive Sparrow – Arremonops rufivirgatus. Green-backed Sparrow – Arremonops chloronotus.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113

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NOVEMBER 3, 2018

Cassin’s Sparrow – Peucaea cassinii. Sagebrush Sparrow – Artemisiospiza nevadensis. LeConte’s Sparrow – Ammospiza leconteii. Baird’s Sparrow – Centronyx bairdii. Henslow’s Sparrow – Centronyx henslowii. Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark – Eremopterix nigriceps.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Sparrows 113

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OCTOBER 6, 2018

Sagebrush Sparrow – Artemisiospiza nevadensis. LeConte’s Sparrow – Ammospiza leconteii. Baird’s Sparrow – Centronyx bairdii. Henslow’s Sparrow – Centronyx henslowii. Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark – Eremopterix nigriceps. 07 Sep 2018. 03 Sep 2018. 03 Sep 2018.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 113

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AUGUST 4, 2018

Donna was first amongst beats to reach North Dakota and brought the number of Lower 48s to 32, adding Sharp-tailed Grouse , Sprague’s Pipit and LeConte’s Sparrow to the life list. LeConte’s Sparrow – Ammodramus leconteii. Baird’s Sparrow – Ammodramus bairdii. Still all mainland though.

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2018 Australia Woodpeckers Los Angeles 102

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APRIL 21, 2011

3 We studied three adjacent dialects of white-crowned sparrow songs over a 30-year time span. 2010 February 7; 277(1680): 469–473. However, the song divergence could also be the result of more intense vocal interaction in the more densely populated city areas or a side-effect of physiological adaptation to urban habitats. 1st edition.

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Zebras Birds Humane Raised 264

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MARCH 13, 2011

Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of January 2010? Or These Blasts From The Past Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of February 2011? Make It to the Midwest Birding Symposium Where Are You Birding This Third Weekend of September 2008?

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2011 Deer Birds Owls 133

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MARCH 20, 2011

Over the winter, the universe lost four whooping cranes to what appears to be recreational shooting: three gunned down together in Georgia on December 30, 2010, and another in Alabama on January 28, 2011. It gives one to wonder why this designation was made. I think not! I will certainly write. Thanks again Julie, Vicki H.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 244

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OCTOBER 6, 2020

There are newly determined species resulting from a decade of splits: Ridgway’s Rail, Sagebrush and Bell’s Sparrows, Woodhouse’s Scrub-Jay and California Scrub-Jay, Scripps’s Murrelet, Cassia Crossbill, and Morrelet’s Seedeater. These are the species that immediately come to my mind, and I probably missed some.

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North America America 2020 Hawaii 244

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MARCH 14, 2011

One important reason is the wide discrepancy in mid-winter count survey numbers—in Tennessee those figures were 44,000 counted in 2010 versus only 12,000 counted in 2011. Ohio has tracked two families of their state-endangered breeding sandhill cranes and found them to have wintered over in Tennessee in 2010.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 261