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Where the Sparrows Are

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Specifically, the area surrounding our church is my best place to see sparrows, both residents and our (much more common) winter migratory sparrows. The one exception is the Chipping Sparrow , which can be found easily wherever there is grass. Happily, nobody would struggle to identify a Lark Sparrow.

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Out Birding to Help an Endemic Sparrow in Costa Rica

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Today, along with teams in a few other parts of Costa Rica and elsewhere, I will be birding for a cause, watching birds to help one that only lives in Costa Rica, the Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow. Around the size of a Song Sparrow or Chaffinch , maybe a bit bigger, this mini towhee forages near the ground in dense scrubby vegetation.

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Æppeltreow Winery & Cidery: Sparrow Spiced Cider

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Such are the flavors that imbue this week’s featured tipple, the Sparrow Spiced Cider by Æppeltreow Winery and Cidery of Burlington, Wisconsin (we’ve featured ciders from Æppeltreow’s “Songbird Draft Cider” series twice before, their Kinglet Bitter Draft Cider and Barn Swallow Draft Cider). de Siebold. Temminck et H.

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Peterson Reference Guide to Sparrows of North America: A Review by a Sparrow Fan

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I like sparrows. I like observing them, reading about them, grappling with species and subspecies identification, and even—on a good day—talking about sparrow taxonomy. The book does not include House Sparrow, an Old World sparrow that belongs to a completely different bird family. Scope of Book. Mexico border.

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Ground-Sparrows and Brush-Finches

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Common birds, you see, tend to have simple names, like House Sparrow, House Finch, or House Wren. A hyphen in a bird’s “first” name can occur pretty much anywhere, which is why the United States has a good supply of birds like White-crowned Sparrows and Yellow-rumped Warblers. But not all hypens are created equal.

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The Hidden Qualities of House Sparrows

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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.

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Vesper Sparrows in Queens

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Every autumn I spend an inordinate amount of time examining the edges of fields, scrubby stands of brush, and everywhere else that little brown jobs, otherwise known as sparrows, might appear. Of course, I’m always hoping to find Lark Sparrows , Grasshopper Sparrows , Clay-colored Sparrows and other about annual rarities.

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