10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2015

Even sparrows, if you choose the right species and play your cards right, can be elevated to ‘cute’ status. And what about lifestyle? Pigeons are much-reviled but their cousins the doves more than make up for it by evoking symbolic sentiments of peace and well-being.

Seals 227

Seals Lifestyle Turtles Parrots 227

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2017

This special place in a birder’s heart or on a list of best birds of the year certainly pertains not only to their extravagant lifestyle but also to the fact that most birders – particularly visiting birders – often struggle with finding them. Any dipper, any continent, any birder. Ridiculous really, but there you go.

Germany 100

Germany 2016 Hamburgers Austria 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

So right now I’m feeling pretty good about Eurasian Collared-doves. We remember starlings not skylarks, House Sparrows not Eurasian Tree Sparrows , Cattle Egrets not… well, whatever we’ve forgotten because it didn’t do as well as the Cattle Egrets. Wicked, right? Nicole: Glad you liked it!

Montana 136

Montana 2011 New York Bahamas 136

10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2011

Researchers comparing these traits across groups of closely related species – parrots, tits, sparrows, darwins finches etc – find no general correlation between neophobia and exploration. Wicked, right? I like the neophobia-exploration issue too. Instead, those species that are neophobic tend to have either a naturally.

Cats 149

Cats 2011 Costa Rica Deer 149

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

We are remote but what a great lifestyle! Wicked, right? We can see forever-well, till the curve of the earth anyway! Broome Accommodation Mar 7th, 2011 at 7:50 pm A great post, thanks Clare, always great to see some of our local critters being documented. Hat-tip to Stella.

2011 145

2011 Australia Deer New York 145

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

What could be plainer than the Eurasian Tree Sparrow ? Interestingly, Black-winged Stilts display laterality – that is, they preferentially use one eye (the right one) to find prey. This one seems to wonder about whether eating flies is the right lifestyle choice though. Well, Nanhui had some this month.

Birds 192

Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 192