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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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Fast food containers are popular. β€œAn Five hatchling House Sparrows in a Happy Meal box,” said Johanna Walton, also in Connecticut. “Almost restores your faith in humanity!” They had nothing else to put him in.”. The photograph provoked hearts and smiley face emojis from the rehabbers. ” I wrote.

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A Guide to Parking Lot Birds of the Southeast

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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. Here in the non-Floridian Southeast we have sparrows and starlings and pigeons.

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Twitching a Gray Kingbird in New York

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He came out, we grabbed coffees and his car, and awaited the arrival of the third member of our impromptu twitching team, young birding wunderkind Adrian Burke (who I first met when twitching this bird ), fresh off his discovery of multiple Seaside Sparrows by the bike path on the west side of Manhattan a couple of days earlier.

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Birding while Holiday Shopping

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Common Myna , a fairly recent introduction, is practically a specialist in dumpster diving at fast food joints, roosting under vehicles near shopping malls, and nesting in neon store signs. In southeast Florida, it thrives in man-made habitats, feeding on grassy meridians, on roadsides, and even among human refuse.

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