10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2017
Last weekend we had an extended family weekend at a beach house in Wildwood, New Jersey, just north of Cape May. Well, not just at a salt marsh but at the Seaside Sparrows that make their living there, at least in the warmer months. In practice, this means that I spent a lot of time in a blind staring at a salt marsh.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 4, 2021
In the erstwhile sanctuary, common species like Red-billed Pigeon , Blue-black Grassquit , and Rufous-collared Sparrow abound. Keep birding and you might see a White-tailed Kite hovering as it hunts rodents and one of the few Bat Falcons in the Valley might dash into view. It now occurs in various sites in the Central Valley.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 25, 2021
I’m no expert, but I strongly suspect Rusty Sparrows only hunt for grubs when they are feeding babies. A very vocal (though not too visible) family of Steller’s Jays turned up, which was a shock, because here in central Mexico I had never before seen this conifer-loving species below 2900 m (9500 ft).
10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2020
Where can I see Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow followed by a fantastic meal ? Local guide and birder David Mora Vargas has been spending much of his time at his family’s farm in the Sarapiqui lowlands. As it learns to hunt and live on its own, the young bird has taken up residence in a tree right in front of the farm.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 20, 2013
Though Corey originally picked a Field Sparrow at Edgemere Preserve (like the one pictured above) as his Best Bird of the Weekend, an afternoon outing with his family back to Edgemere Preserve so Desi could chase after crickets and grasshoppers led to his revised Best Bird of the Weekend, a fortuitous find. How about you?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 22, 2022
While hoopoes are in their own family, DNA studies suggest that the hoopoe diverged from hornbills, and the wood-hoopoes and scimitarbills from the hoopoe. While this is a very charismatic bird, the Southern Grey-headed Sparrow emphatically is not. ” This sparrow does not want to hear it has a beautiful soul.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2019
But come spring, an even luckier few may even find a fellow survivor of their own kind with whom to start a family, unwittingly causing contentious debates among birders about the countability of established feral populations in the process.
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