It's Bird Week at the NY TImes.
Funny, the only pic of birds in the field are the starlings roosting on some columns.
Saw a robin the other day. Looked much more muted than the ones I remember from Texas. Are western robins a little less flamboyant? Something like this.
Here’s the Times posts consolidated. The historical documentation is cool; the rest is basic, but ok for a general audience.
Partnered with WNYC, they had a (brief) interview with Tom Stephenson, who I’ve met in Prospect Park. He’s a sound engineer, records birds around the world, and worked with the Dead at some point.
As far as American Robin goes, for a bird that occurs across the whole continent it’s pretty consistent, but there is a clinal range from paler in the west to darker in the east. And females are paler than males, so all populations will show a range of plumages.
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- alex 5-03-2011 12:22 pm
Funny, the only pic of birds in the field are the starlings roosting on some columns.
- steve 5-03-2011 2:52 pm [add a comment]
Saw a robin the other day. Looked much more muted than the ones I remember from Texas. Are western robins a little less flamboyant? Something like this.
- mark 5-03-2011 10:24 pm [add a comment]
Here’s the Times posts consolidated. The historical documentation is cool; the rest is basic, but ok for a general audience.
Partnered with WNYC, they had a (brief) interview with Tom Stephenson, who I’ve met in Prospect Park. He’s a sound engineer, records birds around the world, and worked with the Dead at some point.
As far as American Robin goes, for a bird that occurs across the whole continent it’s pretty consistent, but there is a clinal range from paler in the west to darker in the east. And females are paler than males, so all populations will show a range of plumages.
- alex 5-04-2011 1:51 am [add a comment]