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Eurasian Tree Sparrows from long ago

10,000 Birds

Since it’s really hard to type in a splint, here is a blast from the past: specifically from the beginning of this long, strange trip, my cross-country journey from New York to Montana: I have to confess, I had forgotten all about the Eurasian Tree Sparrow. This event took place in April of 1870, in Lafayette Park in St.

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Half Hardy

10,000 Birds

When he’s not looking for birds, which is not often, he enjoy music with banjos in it, disc golf, good beer, progressive politics and the St. Louis Cardinals baseball team and he’s not particularly shy about sharing his opinion on any of those things. Though it is certainly bad news that the U.S. The proposal from U.S.