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Eurasian Tree Sparrows from long ago

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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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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of October 2013)

10,000 Birds

The Arizona Cardinals may not be covering the team totem in glory, but the St. Louis Cardinals just locked in another trip to the World Series. He was very pleased to see his first ever Rough-legged Hawk in Queens, a dark-morph bird hunting over the old landfill. Go Cardinals! How about you?

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