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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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He allegedly proposed to introduce every species of bird mentioned in the plays of William Shakespeare to the United States. Starlings are a super competitive cavity nesting bird that aggressively evicts other species from nesting cavities. This is one of the reasons why so many bird lovers dislike the European Starling.

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Happy New Year?

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Combined with Christmas Bird Counts and (relatively) lavish year-end vacation time here in North America, the result is a time when we celebrate owls , finches , and sea ducks ; when the local corvids are cheerfully ticked again; when feeders are filled and the odd overwintering individuals from some surprising species are documented.

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Daybreak at the Oasis

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For many of these species, this is a time when they are at their most precarious, out in the wide open getting a drink. 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.

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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. Home to over 200 species, this amazing area is quite susceptible to the amount of rainfall each year.

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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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