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Birds in Winter: A Book Review, Written in Winter

10,000 Birds

Harris’s Sparrows denote dominance by the amount of black on the head, the adult male birds with the most black ranking highest. Long-distance migrants, whose migration times are set by changes in day length, arrive at their breeding grounds only to find that the plants or insects they rely on are gone or eaten by resident species.

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