10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2015
I therefore decided to counter this month’s heinous wood-warbler attack on my retina by choosing the good old trusty House Sparrow as the topic of my May post. The last aspect is something I will elaborate on further below, but not before showing off a prime fine male House Sparrow, unethically photographed at its nest site.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2023
You might think that birds don’t change the world, birds are the world – but by his odd title, Ten Birds That Changed the World, author Stephen Moss means, he says, that birds have, in various ways, led to “paradigm shifts” in human history. Hundreds of millions of sparrows were killed, almost to the point of extinction.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 11, 2024
This is a species that has very much learned to cohabit with humans, causing its population to explode into new areas. All right, I’ll admit that we also have some more drab trash birds as well. Along the seashore, around lakes, and in most cities, the Great-tailed Grackle definitely qualifies as a trash bird.
10,000 Birds
JULY 9, 2022
We might have a few small farms nearby and the gift of a narrow riparian zone out back but in general, the main habitat is that of the modern human kind; housing and streets (lamposts included). Stripe-headed Sparrow and Other Dry Forest Birds. Melodies of Yellow-green Vireos and Whispering Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow in the Coffee.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 4, 2021
Most days, that seemingly random place is right at home. 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 now occurs in various sites in the Central Valley.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. Seaside Sparrow. I imagined walking right up to them. They did flush eventually, but not because of humans.
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.
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