10,000 Birds
MARCH 22, 2013
First he thought it was a book of poetry, but when I said no, he proceeded with a long story about the red sparrows ( House Finches ) at his new feeder. This is the second book I have read in their Animal series and the first, Cockroach , was deserving of equally high praise.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2021
”* And then, my bird club friends started talking about alternate warbler songs and sparrow dialects and I thought, “Really? And, that sparrow I heard in California that sounded so different really is a Song Sparrow?” I do wish there was more about research on female bird song. And, that’s it.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2013
In 1898, Hermon Bumpus published a paper about change in the morphology in a population of House Sparrows that he proposed was an example of Darwinian Natural Selection in action. House Sparrows ( Passer domesticus ) are introduced birds over most of their very large range. The researchers collected and measured these birds as well.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 13, 2016
About a quarter of the world’s Brown Bears live in Europe (including the Russian part of it), some 55,000, divided into nine separate and evermore fragmented populations – some of them dangerously tiny, a dozen or two dozen animals only. After all, bears are solitary and elusive animals. House Sparrow – Passer domesticus.
10,000 Birds
MAY 17, 2020
Over and again, Kroodsma admits to things to which neither he, nor any other researchers, yet have answers – including areas where diligent amateurs can, he says, make discoveries. And that’s part of the point of the book, and its charm – how much there is still to be discovered in the realm of birdsong.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 22, 2018
Fun fact: only three species in the lower 48 states are not protected by that statute – the House Sparrow, Rock Pigeon, and Common Starling.). It takes into its lens context and surroundings and makes them as important as the central bird (or other animal) subject.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 24, 2018
Most of the time, I know enough about an area, or have done some research into what is found there, that I am pleasantly surprised at best. Nearly 30,000 of these acres is set aside as dry wilderness habitat for other birds, animals and other various living creatures. Did I mention that they were a couple of hundred yards out there?
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