10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2019

Back in the old place, there were more birds in the nearby coffee farm but it wasn’t easy to bird because I couldn’t see it from my door and there were stray dogs. In typical blackbird fashion, this common garden bird gave occasional, loud, ringing calls. These were. Great Kiskadee. Social Flycatcher.

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Costa Rica Barn Owls Stray Dog Blackbirds 192

10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2017

From Terry Tempest William’s 1992 bombshell Refuge to Cheryl Strayed’s 2012 blockbuster Wild (now a major-ish motion picture!) Feature Image By Andy Reago & Chrissy McClarren (Rusty Blackbird) [CC BY 2.0 ([link] via Wikimedia Commons. the hits keep coming. Drew Lanham. 24.00, Milkweed Press.

South Carolina 147

South Carolina Stray Cows 2012 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

E.g. I remember trying to enter my local scrubland once, just across the car park behind the last apartment building and there, awaiting me, was a territorial pack of stray dogs barking at an intruder – me. Brewer’s blackbird, Euphagus cyanocephalus. Red-winged blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus. How did I know that?

Animal 116

Animal Bears Stray Dog Blackbirds 116

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2019

And of course, there are Cattle Egrets ( Bubulcus ibis ) and several species of cowbirds that rarely stray too far from livestock. Bobolink Saison is a farmhouse-style ale with a true farm country bird for a mascot, that iconic grassland blackbird with an unforgettable song and a slightly silly name: the Bobolink ( Dolichonyx oryzivorus ).

Vermont 124

Vermont Belgium Farming Europe 124

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2012

.” The pipits and wagtails split off first within this group, then the finches, then several other families, including the longspurs, wood-warblers , icterids (New World blackbirds), emberizid buntings and sparrows, cardinals, and tanagers. And yes, the grosbeaks.

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Family Guatemala Stray Groups 182

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2015

Although they breed on the west coast of Florida, Snowy Plover is a rare stray to this part of the state. Several species, all more or less annual winter visitors from the western United States, also made an appearance: Western Tanager, Brown-crested Flycatcher, Western Kingbird, Yellow-headed Blackbird, and Rufous/Allen’s Hummingbird.

Miami 172

Miami 2015 United States Birds 172

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2018

Tomorrow is Saint Patrick’s Day, a holiday that offers plenty of excuses for drinking, but few prospects for straying from the well-worn celebratory routines. According to one legend, Kevin was kneeling in prayer one day when a blackbird alighted on his outstretched hand and began to build a nest. Saint Kevin and the blackbirds.

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Blackbirds Wounded Stray 2013 110