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#songbirds

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llewelly

Wrens, tanagers, cardinals, and other small passerines flap about in @KateShaw 's wonderful new episode. Even the extinct New Zealand Wren comes in. The family Troglodytidae is mentioned, but secret dark undergound empire of subterranean wrens is not.
strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.

#birds
#passerines
#songBirds

strangeanimalspodcast.blubrry.netEpisode 426 Lots of Little Birds | Strange Animals Podcast
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AnneTheWriter

🧵 I heard... SILENCE.

This past week here in #AuroraIllinois , the weather has been pleasant & warmer. In the past, this kind of weather would be full of life, coming awake.

I know most of the #songbirds have migrated and haven't returned yet, so I don't expect to hear them. But only last week, I was regularly seeing a LOT of #birds , and hearing lots of chirping. The bird food & bread scraps I often put out for them in the morning were always eaten before lunch.

In past years, the sky would have had lots of birds flying overhead in this first warmth. I would hear lots of chirping.

This whole day, I heard only SILENCE.

4 of the past 5 days, bird food was left uneaten. Bread scraps were only eaten by the nighttime animals.

Today, I only saw one lonely #sparrow, behaving abnormally by hiding in my flower pot, right next to my door-- and near me. None of his friends ever appeared.

I hope I'm mistaken. I hope this is not due to #BirdFlu .

Photo of a long rectangular red-orange flowerpot, with dead herbs from the previous year. In the pot, tucked between the dead roots of plants, is a tiny lonely Sparrow. Even when I (unwittingly) stood nearby, he did not quickly fly away. He was the only bird I saw that day, despite having a large supply of stale bread and a full brick of bird suet nearby. The brick of suet has been almost completely untouched for over a week.
Close-up of the lonely sparrow hiding in the dead herb roots. His behavior was very abnormal, and the entire day felt weird to me. The silence overhead all day was rather eerie. There should have been birds.
#Wildlife#Illinois#Birdstodon
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StarFlowerStudioNY
Robins are members of the Thrush family along with their cousins the eastern bluebird.

People often think these species fly south for the winter but many stay in colder climates all winter, especially as the climate continues to warm.

In years past, I used to only see Robins and Bluebirds where there was fruit to eat in winter, like wetlands filled with Chokeberry (Aronia) and Winterberry holly (Ilex) , but now bluebirds come to my bird feeders all winter and I see robins in areas where the snow melts first, like urban plots.

There were quite a few in this old manufacturing district where I was walking today as warm temperatures and melting snow provided an opportunity to forage.

#songbirds #thrushes #americanrobin
An American robin perches on the rusted metal windowsill of an old brick factory building.
#AmericanRobin
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Lukas VFN 🇪🇺

Hard bites and slow songs: How beak size affects the singing and #evolution of songbirds
theconversation.com/hard-bites

"#Songbirds with strong bites are not only slow eaters, they are also slow singers... large-billed species produce fewer syllables per second; they sing at lower trill rates. They also sing with a lower vocal range and at a lower pitch... interestingly, even #birds of the same species show small differences in their song based on much subtler differences in beak size."

Photo of a small brown bird with a robust beak
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