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
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
Now, there are a few obvious uses of bird names that I really needn’t cover, like our ambivalence towards the house sparrow. Its nickname “Spatz” is one of our most common terms of endearment, yet “Dreckspatz” translates to dirt sparrow and describes a person with questionable body hygiene.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
Seaside Sparrows were singing on both sides and occasionally popped up to give us a view before diving deep back into the Spartina grass, hopefully getting ready to nest. Seaside Sparrow. At the end of the road, we found two Nelson’s Sparrows who quickly flew out to a tiny bit of land in the channel. Eastern Meadowlark.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 14, 2011
Dirt hawking is a form of falconry that involves hunting rabbits and other small game with Harris Hawks (other hawk species also qualify). One of the primary reasons that these hawks make such excellent falconry birds is because they are one of only two raptor species (the other is the Galapagos Hawk ) that hunt cooperatively.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2015
Couzens lays out his rationale for species selection in the introduction, and it seems quite sound, producing a book with a wide range of species from around the world engaging in all sorts of behaviors, from nest parasitism to communal hunting to torpor to, in the case of the Southern Cassowary , kicking the occasional human interloper to death.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 4, 2012
I was able to find the Common Redpoll among the flock of Lesser Goldfinches and Savannah Sparrows. I even got a halfway decent photo of it before heading a few miles away to see the American Tree Sparrow and Red-naped Sapsucker. Personally, I’m waiting for the irruption of Snowy Owls to reach northern California!
10,000 Birds
JULY 7, 2020
The longer Introduction lists and briefly summarizes topics covered in the Portfolio (evolution feathers, coloration, variation, senses, movement, physiology, migration, food and foraging, survival, social behavior, birds and humans, threats).
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