10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

Fast food containers are popular. “An ” “A nestling American Robin in a bucket of water,” wrote Jane Neville, now in Florida. “Almost restores your faith in humanity!” “Two wildlife biologists brought me a Golden Eagle inside a metal pipe.” wrote Debbie Souza-Pappas in Utah. What are the odds?

Transported 278

Transported Wildlife Rehabilitation Bats Opossums 278

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

Every part of the world has it’s suite of parking lot staples, those urbanish species that seem to prefer to linger about humanity subsisting in no small amount to the magnanimity, or more likely the laziness, of humankind. The western half of the continent sees a lot of Brewer’s Blackbirds mixed in.

North Carolina 185

North Carolina Fast Food Sparrows Birds 185

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2016

By Wednesday I was thinking about the odds of the bird both sticking through the end of the day on Friday and Daisy agreeing to me taking the entire day before Mothers Day to twitch a bird that I saw last week in Florida. The long drive back to New York was filled by more lousy, incidental eBird checklists, more fast food, and more road kill.

New York 101

New York Bald Eagle McDonalds Fast Food 101

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

Common Myna, a steadily spreading exotic in southern Florida restricted to artificial, man-made habitats. In southeastern Florida, most of the bird species restricted to parking lots and similar artificial habitats are exotic species. Ring-billed Gull, an abundant wintering species in parking lots of southeast Florida.

Miami 124

Miami Fast Food Florida Birds 124