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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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Birding Bangkok? Try Suan Luang Park

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With that said, if you find yourself in Bangkok, Thailand for a day, there are many urban parks that offer great urban birding. Malaysian Pied-Fantail is a common and conspicuous bird in the lowlands of Thailand. The following is a list of regular species at Suan Luang Park in Bangkok, Thailand: Asian Openbill. Yellow Bittern.

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Some Birding News about Birders in Costa Rica

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Where can I see Cabanis’s Ground-Sparrow followed by a fantastic meal ? I have found myself listening to babbler songs and wondering which ones I may have heard in the distant forests of Thailand. This odd nocturnal creature is around the same size as a Barred Owl. What has Chambito been seeing in Cano Negro?

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Collaborative list – December 2019

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35 countries were visited during 2019 , 7 of them ( Belgium , France , Germany , Italy , Thailand , Indonesia and Barbados ) bringing new blood to the Country/Territory/Emirate/Republic/Pricipality/Kingdom/Special Administrative Region list which now stands at 55. House Sparrow – Passer domesticus. 03 Dec 2019. 03 Dec 2019.

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Birding Kota Kinabalu, Borneo: Rice Paddies

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There, you may find the Java Sparrow. If you choose the latter, your music taste is more aligned with that of Java Sparrows (though the sample size in this study , 4 birds, of which 2 preferred Bach while the other two showed no clear preference, seems rather small).

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Birding Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam

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The first bird I saw in Saigon was less exotic though – a Eurasian Tree Sparrow. It seems a bit sad to me that a paper on the Eurasian Tree Sparrow and the House Sparrow has to justify the need for research on these species by arguing this benefits humans: “Sparrow species … live in a close association with people.

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Duncan’s 2014 List

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In many ways that seems to be the pattern, as the major holiday breaks for New Zealand are over December and January; the year before I started in tropical Queensland and ended in Thailand and the UK. PASSERIDAE (SPARROWS). House Sparrow ( Passer domesticus ); Wellington, New Zealand, 12 January. ESTRILDIDAE (ESTRILDID FINCHES).

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