10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2015
To us on the traditional side of the Atlantic, they’ll always belong to the family Iznogoudae , the birds who want to become warblers instead of the warblers. I therefore decided to counter this month’s heinous wood-warbler attack on my retina by choosing the good old trusty House Sparrow as the topic of my May post.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 16, 2012
We humans often understand things by exploring their relationships. Ourselves, for instance; just consider how many sweet or gritty stories you’ve seen about Olympic athletes’ family backgrounds over the last few weeks. For centuries, many birds were assigned to these families based primarily on their bill structures.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 4, 2021
A few spots manage to persist and welcome them in this human-dominated landscape. In the erstwhile sanctuary, common species like Red-billed Pigeon , Blue-black Grassquit , and Rufous-collared Sparrow abound. It’s exodus for survival or wilt and starve in the concrete. It now occurs in various sites in the Central Valley.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 10, 2020
Would probably wear heavily patterned fisherman`s wool sweaters if turned into a human. While Long-tailed Shrikes are the second hand car dealers of the Nanhui bird world, some of the other members of the shrike family are a bit more subtle. Male and female Japanese Thrush , rather elegant members of the family.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2021
Europeans must use these to come and bear away in the name of civilization all these dregs of the human race. ” A pity, as the species is not only very attractive but also a bit of a mystery, being neither a typical finch nor bunting and thus placed in its own family. Unfortunately, I did not manage such a photo this time.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2012
The bird was a sparrow, that much was clear, but it didn’t seem to fit any of the easily boxes the other North American sparrows can be fairly easily sorted into. Superficially, it resembled the Black-chinned Sparrow of the southwestern United States with its gray chest and chestnut streaked with black back.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2021
”* And then, my bird club friends started talking about alternate warbler songs and sparrow dialects and I thought, “Really? And, that sparrow I heard in California that sounded so different really is a Song Sparrow?” There’s more than one song per warbler? There is so much here!
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