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Birding Beyond 60

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Clay-colored Sparrows In about a month, I will have my 66th birthday. But once I get back home to Mexico, I will be climbing hills on livestock trails once again. Black-chinned Sparrow , a flagship species for this site. And I must be careful to protect my skin, having had a couple of basal cells removed.

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The Ubiquitous European Starling: The Bird We Love to Hate

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Even more distressing for people who work to conserve our native populations of Eastern and Western Bluebirds and Purple Martins, European Starlings as well as House Sparrows are considered to be the greatest threat to successfully increasing the populations of these native birds.

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Happy New Year?

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Jewish-calendar based year lists would start, depending on the year, with a burst of shore birds and waterfowl, a handful of late warblers, or the modest, meditative joy of migrant sparrows. Feeder birds and irruptives would show up just as the listing doldrums might otherwise set in.

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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

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inhabitants per km², mainly livestock farmers. House Sparrow – Passer domesticus. Tree Sparrow – Passer montanus. Draped in dense forests of black pine, beech, fir, spruce and Scot’s pine, this is one of the least populated areas of Greece, with merely 0.47 Chaffinch – Fringilla coelebs.

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Daybreak at the Oasis

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At this end of the waters edge, quite a bit of livestock had had been in and out, leaving large footprints in the mud. As well as Cactus Wrens , A few Black-throated Sparrows, Northern Cardinals. These prints then all have filled with water, and provide drinking spots, none that I would use, but the birds don’t seem to mind.

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Hart Mountain National Antelope Refuge

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The combination of over hunting, and the native animals susceptibility to diseases carried by domestic livestock that were allowed to graze there, completely eliminated these Bighorns by 1915. A White-crowned Sparrow is always a beautiful subject! Here was my first surprise, an Mac Gillivray’s Warbler.

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Cow Birds

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They’re all named for livestock. home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds , Terminology / Cow Birds Cow Birds By Rick • March 22, 2011 • 1 comment Tweet Share So what do Buffleheads and Bitterns and Hornbills have in common?

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