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The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet

10,000 Birds

There is another area of the Queens County CBC where a team will also likely see Monk Parakeets , Myipsitta monachus , but I am seriously determined to count that bird for my area, Coastal Flushing, a section of northeast Queens, New York, that includes Whitestone, home of one of the loudest invasive bird species in the U.S. And cell towers.

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Shedding Tears For Shorebirds

10,000 Birds

Compared to something like a Connecticut Warbler , they are just begging to be looked at. Photographed at Drakes Bay Oyster Company, Point Reyes, CA. Most of them are essentially telling you what species they are when they talk, so just focusing on appearance may make the identification process more complicated than it has to be.

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Some Chinese Pheasants

10,000 Birds

Bella, you owe me at least one beer on our next trip for mentioning your company here without any real need to do so). The Latin species name of the Kalij Pheasant is leucomelanos , meaning “white” (leukos) and “black” (melanos, both Greek words). Connecticut. The pimps of the avian world. New Jersey.