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The Littel Big Year – Week 45: Wrapping up the Bahamas

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We also got an extra stop in Dallas, Texas (Hey wasn’t I just here) but again no birds could be added, unless I count the House Sparrow flying around inside the terminal.

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Bird Song and Parallel Evolution: learning from our feathered friends

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3 We studied three adjacent dialects of white-crowned sparrow songs over a 30-year time span. However, the song divergence could also be the result of more intense vocal interaction in the more densely populated city areas or a side-effect of physiological adaptation to urban habitats.

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Birding Morelia

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One of the advantages of Morelia as a birding/tourist destination is that we receive direct flights from Houston on United, Dallas/Fort Worth on American, and Los Angeles, Oakland, San Jose (California), and Chicago/Midway on the Mexican carrier Volaris. And that call you hear everywhere, but usually can’t locate?

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Birds Worth The Trip

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Best of all, you can fly here direct from Atlanta, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, San Francisco, and Los Angeles. Finally, a single Rusty Sparrow insisted on posing for my camera. This is one of my favorite subtropical sparrows, so I’ll close with him/her. The climate is pleasant year-round (it’s 74º F as I write).