I am doing a project and these are the birds I hae been unable to identify, can you guys help me?
Bird One
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Bird Two
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ok..
1. this should be a small bird with reddish breast streaks...which I think I can just see: Yellow Warbler.
2. and also 3. Female Red-winged Blackbird
4. Probably a male Common Grackle
5. Tree
We made the rounds of a circuit of four-dozen boxes along roughly three miles of trails and cleaned them out and made minor repairs. Seriously damaged boxes were brought home for repair (or kindling) and boxes on their last year of life were marked for replacement in 2013.
Nest box cleaning also brings an element of excitement. Some of the boxes house white footed deer mice over the winter. And those boxes have lots of fluffy, stinky material (think unmaintained urinal) and sometimes a few dead mice in them. When I sweep the contents out Girlfriend loves to roll in the debris. While she revels in the experience I try to stay up-wind. Risk of hantavirus you know. Excitement for me was when a very alive mouse scampered-up my long sleeve t-shirt and made a right turn down my chest.
Shriek!
Here’s the bottom side of a roof on a box that was installed in 1997 and is still going strong.
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Birds of a feather don't always flock together But I see your point. Birds in the wild rarely interbreed. For one thing, they usually don't recognize another species' mating calls. And sometimes the reproductive organs of one bird are too different from those of another to allow interbreeding. |
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Most sources state that males use these limbs to help grip females during mating. However, little mentioned is that males of at least some species (or all species?) also possess paracloacal spurs, one on each side of the cloaca (and normally hidden
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Photo Gallery: Parangal Dance Company Requesto is performing Blit-B'laan, a courtship dance of the B'laan which imitates birds during mating season, when females scurry away, burying their heads under their wings and the males enjoy the chase. The B'laan women wear elaborate blouses, |
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E-mail letters, June 3, 2011 My reason for bringing this bit of information to your attention is that most people think of birds as being either robins or sparrows. By not enlightening us with information to enhance your pictures does us a disservice by leaving us in ignorance. |