10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

There are also certain psychological advantages. Jewish-calendar based year lists would start, depending on the year, with a burst of shore birds and waterfowl, a handful of late warblers, or the modest, meditative joy of migrant sparrows. It is common and widely recognized and for those very reasons, to most of us it just feels right.

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Livestock Psychology North America Turkey 208

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2016

Sibley Birds East covers “nearly 700” birds, up from 650, and Sibley Birds West covers “over 700,” which I’m assuming is more than the first edition count of 703 birds, if for no other reason than that taxonomic splits have give us Ridgeway’s Rail, Bell’s Sparrow and Sagebrush Sparrow. This means that loons are no longer first!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2013

and a handful more ( Rock Pigeon , House Sparrow , and my first native bird, White-Throated Sparrow ), but for the most part I’ve been sticking to indoor pursuits here in chilly New York City. But in one of the gaps of the fence, a House Sparrow perches, stretching briefly. House Sparrows particularly, in the U.S.,

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10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2023

Similar to the rare human experiment, the results were generally acceptable, though of course that does not account for any potential psychological damage caused by the switch in parents. Occasionally, second-hand nests of Red-rumped Swallows turn up in local real estate markets.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 7, 2013

Sometimes, I’ll reply with a story about the sparrows found in a local grasslands preserve. I’m not going to try to explain why people are fascinated by hawks; human-to-avian psychology is not my specialty. What is it about raptors that fascinates so many people? Or, I’ll wax poetic over a Hooded Warbler. It’s a Bald Eagle, a hawk.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

Over the next few days, I found increasing numbers, goldfinches, juncos, white-throated sparrows. I was shocked when I found the first body, a female Towhee. I hoped it was an anomaly. Were they always there and I just never noticed? It’s not a bad idea.

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