10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Most likely, the seed is a of couple years old and no one else will carry it in their stores because the nut meat is not as desirable to birds (and chock full of meal moth larvae). A little millet is okay, some birds like Dark-eyed Juncos (above) and native sparrows like Fox Sparrows, White-throated and White-crowned Sparrows like it.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2020

Black-chested Sparrow is one of Paso Ancho’s flagship species. It wasn’t my fault; the Sparrow came to me. As I learned this week, locals cook the unripe fruit into meat dishes, and eat the ripe fruit raw… as do birds! Striped-headed Sparrows and Streak-backed Orioles seemed to be everywhere.

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Sparrows Cooking Squirrels Meat 239

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2024

Resource partitioning is basically the term for liking different things, which makes it easier to live together (think you eating most of the meat and your wife eating most of the vegetables of a shared dinner). The first bird I saw in Saigon was less exotic though – a Eurasian Tree Sparrow.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

And yes, sparrows in areas with polluted air are less healthy. People apparently catch and eat Yellow-breasted Buntings because they think its meat has aphrodisiac properties ( source ), which leads to it being categorized as Critically Endangered. Thank god that this does not apply to humans.

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Birds China Eggs Owls 272

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2019

As seasonings for meat, fish, and vegetables, spices like cloves and mace fell out of fashion along with doublets and ruffled collars, but these imports from the steamy island forests of southeast Asia remain popular to this day – with some irony – in flavoring dark and sticky treats best enjoyed fireside in the dead of the northern winter.

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