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Every part of the world has it’s suite of parking lot staples, those urbanish species that seem to prefer to linger about humanity subsisting in no small amount to the magnanimity, or more likely the laziness, of humankind. Here in the non-Floridian Southeast we have sparrows and starlings and pigeons.
Fastfood containers are popular. “An Five hatchling House Sparrows in a Happy Meal box,” said Johanna Walton, also in Connecticut. “Almost restores your faith in humanity!” They had nothing else to put him in.”. The photograph provoked hearts and smiley face emojis from the rehabbers. ” I wrote.
He came out, we grabbed coffees and his car, and awaited the arrival of the third member of our impromptu twitching team, young birding wunderkind Adrian Burke (who I first met when twitching this bird ), fresh off his discovery of multiple Seaside Sparrows by the bike path on the west side of Manhattan a couple of days earlier.
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