I was sorting through a large mixed flock of Brown-headed Cowbirds and European Starlings at Fort Tilden on Friday morning when Isaac Grant, the intrepid...
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The grackle is the ultimate American bird, adaptable, intrepid, and obstreperous. Ten species of these iridescent ebon irritants, most in the genus Quiscalus, are...
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Bobolinks are among my favorite birds. It is impossible to hear their silly song being sung from on high without growing a grin on...
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Yellow-headed Blackbirds (Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus) are robin-sized blackbirds found in prairie and mountain meadow wetlands of the western and central United States and Canada. They...
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Here at 10,000 Birds we think it is very important that we tackle the big issues of the day, the issues that can effect...
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Grackles are of the Icterid family, the New World family of birds that includes blackbirds, orioles, oropendolas, meadowlarks, caciques, the Bobolink, and cowbirds. The...
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I’ve recently discovered that if I hustle out of my office for my lunch hour, jump on the uptown C train and get off...
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This weekend while I was exploring the Shawangunk Grasslands in Ulster County, New York, with my parents (more on that later) we came across...
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