Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
In the UK, only three nests of 59,770 examined (0.005%) contained cuckoo eggs. [45] The introduced merula blackbird in New Zealand, where the cuckoo does not occur, has, over the past 130 years, lost the ability to recognize the adult common cuckoo but still rejects non-mimetic eggs. [46] As with other passerine birds, parasites are common.
Blackbird (Turdus merula) A – resident breeding species Eyebrowed thrush (Turdus obscurus) A – rare vagrant Fieldfare (Turdus pilaris) A – winter visitor, rare breeder Ring ouzel (Turdus torquatus) A – breeding summer visitor Black-throated thrush (Turdus atrogularis) A – rare vagrant Red-throated thrush (Turdus ruficollis) A – rare ...
Brewer's blackbird (Euphagus cyanocephalus) is protected in the United States under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act of 1918, [10] however exceptions are granted under 50 CFR part 21 (2014) [11] for animals committing or about to commit depredations upon ornamental or shade trees, agricultural crops, livestock, or wildlife, or when concentrated in ...
The data used to produce the maps is gathered by volunteer biological recorders and collated by the BRC Recording Schemes. The atlases fall into two groups: Main Atlases are commercially published books, presenting the current state of knowledge for well-recorded groups. They typically include text information about the species, and other ...
The Macmillan Field Guides to Bird Identification are two small bird field guides. Volume 1, The Macmillan Field Guide to Bird Identification , illustrated by Alan Harris and Laurel Tucker , with text by Keith Vinicombe , was originally published in 1989, covered British birds.
Bullock's oriole (Icterus bullockii) is a small New World blackbird. At one time, this species and the Baltimore oriole were considered to be a single species, the northern oriole . This bird is named after William Bullock , an English amateur naturalist .
Cisticolas are generally very small birds of drab brown or grey appearance found in open country such as grassland or scrub. They are often difficult to see and many species are similar in appearance, so the song is often the best identification guide. These are insectivorous birds which nest low in vegetation. Zitting cisticola, Cisticola juncidis
Nearly 90 species of medium to large thrushes are in the genus Turdus, characterised by rounded heads, longish, pointed wings, and usually melodious songs.Although two European thrushes, the song thrush and mistle thrush, are early offshoots from the Eurasian lineage of Turdus thrushes after they spread north from Africa, the fieldfare is descended from ancestors that had colonised the ...