Connecticut Family Rights Species 
10,000 Birds
JUNE 25, 2019
That fallacious family name seems to have encouraged all manner of knaves, dunderheads, and miscreants when time came to label species. Most of the warblers south of the border escaped this ignominy; those Basileuterus and Myiothlypis species generally appear exactly as advertised. NAMED FOR PEOPLE. NAMED FOR PLACES.
10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2014
It devotes two pages to each bird, a full-page drawing of the bird on the left, a description of the bird, including singing and nesting behavior, on the right. A little research revealed that these are old names of birds that have been split into different species. But, that technology is for another article.)
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 26, 2013
Many species build nests of sticks or mud or spit on human-made structures , or in houses we’ve constructed specifically for their use. Taxonomically, swallows are one of the few families of birds that has seen little change in its ranks. The family is global in its distribution, with 83 species of around 19 genera.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2012
There’s a little hint of white in the malar and throat too, which would seem to be a problem for the species Black- chinned Sparrow. Once you know that hybridization between these two species is, as the great ornithologist Charles Townsend relates, “extensive” , the possibilities are endless.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 21, 2015
Way back on 16 May I managed to see my 312 bird species in Queens to add to my Queens list. Somehow I forgot that the last time I predicted what the next ten species I would see in Queens would be was back on 30 December 2013, when my list was sitting at 302. WHIIIIIIMBRLE!!!!! How accurate were these predictions?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2013
Two days ago I went on Facebook and queried some of my exhausted compatriots: if you could have one wish right now – anything in the world – what would it be? “I A filtration system that works on waterfowl pools without clogging,” wrote Linda in Connecticut. Let me ponder it while I’m picking up two gulls and an egret.”.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2012
Compared to something like a Connecticut Warbler , they are just begging to be looked at. Once you accept this basic fact, you will be surprised at the ease in which you will find yourself identifying peeps and plovers, left and right. Black Oystercatcher … right? That’s why they exist, right? A rocky shore?
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