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
MARCH 18, 2021
In fact, bulbuls are the work horses of the bird world in many parts of Asia and Africa. .” Sounds a bit like a Grey-eyed Bulbul once took away the girlfriend of an eBird reviewer, doesn`t it?
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 3, 2018
Like if you feel that seeing a friendly chattering House Sparrow was a good bird, then it indeed was. With that same glee, he told me how he enjoyed watching the sparrows in his garden, how the males courted the females, fought over seeds, always chattering. He had a heart of gold, you could see it in his eyes.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 8, 2018
The end results are steady lines of traffic marching to crowded beaches, more visitors to the country’s famed national parks, and a parade or two where drunken wannabe cowboys on prancing horses add local spice to the festive mayhem. It’s busy on the birding side of things as well.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 8, 2015
Raptors : A pretty high number of raptor species occur in Costa Rica but hold your feathered horses raptorphiles because most are rare! The southwest harbors several possibilities, maybe even a dozen new year birds, while the northwest is where I need to go for a tough trio of sparrows; Rusty, Botteri’s, and Grasshopper.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 15, 2014
My very first rescue was a House Sparrow caught in a glue trap,” says Donna Osburn, a wildlife rehabilitator in Kentucky. Horse people love to hang flypaper, I’ve had many Barn Swallows come in stuck to them,” says Jodi Swensen, of Cape Ann Wildlife in Massachusetts. “I I receive 2-3 birds each summer caught in fly strips.
10,000 Birds
JULY 23, 2014
They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. It should surprise no one that someone brought horses, or goats, or chickens. People have moved useful plants and animals around with them as long as they had the wit to do so. But hedgehogs?
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