10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2016

They form and have lots of genes on them, but over time, all the non sex-related genes abandon the chromosome. And this brings us to Zonotrichia albicollis , the White-Throated Sparrow. The result is that sparrows with this gene have different mating preferences than other sparrows. Two things, really.

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Rats Sparrows Birds North Carolina 105

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2018

To the police men and women that he supervises, he can often seem disengaged, following investigatory paths that the others have abandoned, or see no promise in. As his boss, the leader of the station, Colleen Shepherd, says, “He does so like his obtuse angles.”.

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Collecting Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 113

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 26, 2018

We also got an extra stop in Dallas, Texas (Hey wasn’t I just here) but again no birds could be added, unless I count the House Sparrow flying around inside the terminal. After that we visited a small remote site of an abandoned resort that is going back to the jungle quickly, and a water front location for shorebirds and gulls.

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Bahamas Costa Rica Abandon Abandoning 124

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2012

Most of them were pretty good in the Owl-Duck-Pigeon range, but they got bogged down when trying to make the leap from a study skin to a particular page of the field guide for, say, a blackbird or a sparrow. Knowing what a sparrow is is kind of easy. And that frustration was epic. Which I think is rather key.

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Montana Bald Eagle Owls Ducks 160

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The birds were right next to an old abandoned farm house, and seemed quite happy to have their photo taken, up to a point, but then like the wind, they were gone, out thru the flat desert areas of New Mexico! As I mentioned before, Lake Tucumcari is now a large dry lake bed, mostly filled in with one weed or another.

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Albuquerque New Mexico Mexico Sparrows 120

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2011

A walk through the scrub habitat made us realize that we might have trouble with passerines as well, as nary a single Yellow-rumped Warbler or Dark-eyed Junco was around, though we did come across a small flock of American Tree Sparrows and a single Gray Catbird. ” And, sure enough, it was a raven! No snipe, no meadowlark, no pipit.

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2011 Birds Sparrows Ducks 160

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2011

The urban decay means that many buildings are abandoned and boarded up, streets are so poorly maintained that potholes large enough to swallow a car are everywhere, and it is not the most unusual situation, as I learned, to be offered heroin. Keep singing, Song Sparrow , and people of Camden, keep struggling. Birds can do that.

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New Jersey United States Philadelphia Delaware 150

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Like many others, this village was totally abandoned and only recently repopulated, with a current population of only 18 people. House Sparrow – Passer domesticus. Tree Sparrow – Passer montanus. Chaffinch – Fringilla coelebs. Goldfinch – Carduelis carduelis. Linnet – Carduelis cannabina.

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Bears Greece Europe Slovenia 267

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2013

It’s among a handful of species — American Robin, Black-capped Chickadee , the unholy trinity of House Sparrow – Rock Pigeon – European Starling , a few others — that have been everywhere I’ve ever lived.

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Connecticut Baltimore North America New York City 170

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2015

Swarming around my neck, ears, and hair, they forced me to abandon birding altogether as I swatted them away as best I could. During the rest of our walk we heard Ovenbirds , a Blackburnian Warbler , and picked out the songs of a White-throated Sparrow and a bunch more Northern Parulas. Kennebago Lake.

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North Carolina Birds North America Woodpeckers 158

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

The road was new, the only sign of the recent times were bullet holes in a few abandoned houses, but that was a rare sight. While heading to the Croatian sea coast I did pass through the city’s railway station a few times in the 1980s, the last time I spent some time in Sarajevo when I was still a kid. No other scars were visible.

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Bosnia Croatia Herzegovina Slovenia 139

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2012

It’s often considered wasteful that so many nests are abandoned and left to degenerate, but my theory of one of the reasons for this behavior is related to predation. Plocepasser – the Sparrow-Weavers The localized Donaldson-Smith’s Sparrow-Weaver is found in arid woodlands of the Somali-Maasai biome.

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Tanzania Buffalo Kenya Namibia 215

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

When you think of invasives, you think of the birds that have been helped by human beings to get where they are, such as House Sparrow or European Starling. Other species have certainly expanded their ranges, but never in such a rapid and global scale. I’d like to introduce you to a diminutive heron, the Cattle Egret Bubuclus ibis.

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Cattle South Korea Suriname Seychelles 170

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2014

Now, it is perfectly okay that your hands are starting to feel sweaty, and we therefore should first go for an easy elimination to keep calm: Is the bird only the size of a House Sparrow or does it approach a Turdus -Thrush. Option two: abandon bird. Or vice versa. And you know what? No one will be able to prove you wrong!

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Europe Kazakhstan Sparrows Abandon 208

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2011

If you have been feeding black-oil sunflower and suddenly switch to straight safflower, birds will abandon your feeders. Safflower is not the favorite food of house sparrows, red-winged blackbirds and squirrels. I’m just beginning to use a feeder and am surprised by how quickly the House Sparrows seem to decimate it.

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2011 Birds Woodpeckers Blackbirds 186

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Patrol and enforce wildlife-damaging violations, including the taking of endangered native plants, capturing turtles, riding ATV’s on pedestrian trails, and abandoning fishhooks. Remove Phragmites and replace it with cattails. Mow grasslands only once a year to arrest succession.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

… The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease. And she has a North American bird book that has so far taught her how to recognize a sparrow.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 203

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2014

(The phrase is also used in the Stokes Field Guide to the Birds of North America and The Shorebird Guide by O’Brien, Crossley, and Karlson, so it hasn’t been totally abandoned.). And, while my initial reaction to that buffy-yellow Grasshopper Sparrow’s breast was “too yellow!”,

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North America Birds Species America 232

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

He is happy the bluebird has returned and he hopes that it will nest by his house in “Downy’s cell,&# that is, the abandoned hole of a Downy Woodpecker. Burroughs says what he means and you can tell that he really means it.

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2011 Deer New York Peru 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2011

The thought of an Oriole foraging in bare winter branches is as foreign as a Petrel on a pool and yet, there it was in my yard picking through an abandoned squirrel’s nest for what appeared to be spiders. They are, for many birders in the eastern part of the continent, one of a short list of quintessential spring birds.

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North Carolina 2011 St. Louis Baltimore 140