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After the first 7 days dominated by daily compound-wide Covid tests and being locked down inside the compound, I went outside on the compound grounds on days 8 and 9. There is a saying among birders – not very well known – that if life gives you lemonade, you should take photos of Chinese Blackbird chicks.
Birding there can often be a test of endurance. Yellow-winged Caciques , showy members of the Blackbird/New World Oriole family, are always conspicuous residents of the region. And many of these species are also strikingly beautiful. Unfortunately, there is a downside to visiting Tierra Caliente. The Hot Country is, well… hot.
Each week a new species tried to test the patch for nesting territory. Apart from some Red-winged Blackbirds, I don’t think any of the other species had a successful go at this territory, was the pesticides? Last week, a Merlin flew in, dove at some blackbird and kept going. The first week it was a Sedge Wren.
This non-technical book is a development from a series of lectures, tried and tested in numerous adult education courses given to non-specialists. Brewer’s blackbird, Euphagus cyanocephalus. Red-winged blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus. Arctic tern, Sterna paradisaea. Barn swallow, Hirundo rustica. Blackcap, Sylvia atricapilla.
A Preview… About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist. Jochen Mar 15th, 2011 at 5:03 am The return of the twilight chorus of Eurasian Blackbirds. Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of January 2010?
It was time to test the umbrella method again. Great clouds of Blackbirds and Cowbirds , with a high percentage of Yellow-headed Blackbirds ? But in flight, and high in the reeds, Yellow-headed Blackbirds come to the fore. Must be Lake Cuitzeo in the winter season. Bronzed Cowbirds were also present.).
. … we experimentally test if house finches ( Carpodacus mexicanus ) can modulate the minimum frequency of their songs in response to different noise levels. Blackbirds sing higher-pitched songs in cities: adaptation to habitat acoustics or side-effect of urbanization? 2010.0437 3 Nemeth, Erwin and Henrik Brumm.
We can’t very well ask these birds themselves or test this in a lab, but there is a large body of anecdotal evidence demonstrating that individuals of these species really can have feelings for one another. Greater White-fronted Geese are one of many species that mate for life. while the female has one primary mate.
Back to Riverhead we went, where we failed to find anything other than the Greater White-fronted Goose Derek had found earlier, though we did spend quite a bit of time at the buffalo farm at the corner of Reeves and Roanoke hoping to pick a good blackbird out of the huge flock there.
One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. In the classic test, an animal is anesthetized and then marked on an area of the body the animal cannot normally see. I wonder if the color blue has some politically incorrect associations. Sometimes it works.
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