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
OCTOBER 5, 2019
62 species have been added to our combined life list, breaking through the next hundred which has been proving very stubborn. 10 Beats have been out in 9 countries (Argentina, Brazil, Serbia, China, Costa Rica, USA, UK, Italy and Mexico) and have shared 125 lists to account for 916 birds. Italian Sparrow – Passer italiae.
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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. Sandy was a fifty-something guy who had immigrated to the Falls from Campobasso, Italy. Once it learns that no one is trying to shoot it, this species can be common and tame at many sites in Costa Rica.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2012
This thrush is extremely common in urban and suburban Germany and one of the most conspicuous bird species here, comparable to the American Robin in North America. It appears as if some bird species are more susceptible to an infection than others, but many species are affected.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2020
That’s pretty amazing–Bolivia has more bird species than India! The source of this ranking, BirdLife International, lists Bolivia as currently having 1,439 bird species, including 18 breeding endemics. The guide covers 1,433 species, the number of birds documented at the end of 2014, the cutoff point for the book.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 19, 2012
Europe… with such low herp diversity the locals split any sub-population of a species that occurs on either the Iberian Peninsula or Italy as a new species just to make them feel better out themselves, naturally is the continent that rose to the top of my trip list. Either that or having family friends in Germany.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 4, 2020
They contributed 150 lists accounting for 1032 species and more than 36,000 individual birds. Thus 100 species were missed by the time he woke up and noticed that eBird had reset the counters at midnight(do you guys have nothing better to do?). House Sparrow – Passer domesticus. Field Sparrow – Spizella pusilla.
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