Bird Migration and Misc Birding Thread
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I've always wanted to see a pair of them up close in person.A Brown Booby has to be interesting specimen....lots of people on the lookout.
Do they come in pairs?
There is a nesting, naturalized population of Great Tits in Sheboygan, WI that I've seen, and we got some weird looks at a restaurant afterwards talking about how awesome it was to see the Tits.
If interested in this topic the birds were part of a release of six species in Chicago back in 2004.
I dealt with this when on the Wisconsin Bird Records Committee. Here is an old link: https://ebird.org/atlaswi/news/species-survey-strategy-recently-introduced-european-songbirds.
I haven't kept track of which introduced species are taking hold but the European Goldfinch is doing really well and may occur in Iowa in the future.
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Not sure if you asking why they were introduced - some vendor released caged birds - or why invasive species are a problem - invasive species compete with native species for all manner of resources.
Definitely the former. Very few invasive species have positively impacted the are in which they've been introduced. Unless these birds eat Japanese beetles!
I have a bit of a backlog of photos taken this spring, got some catchup to do in posting/sharing.
8:30 pm last night in local park. I have quite a few screech photos but this is only my 2nd or 3rd time seeing screech owls not just sitting in a cavity. And never caught an adult pair side-by-side. They are a breeding pair, male is the gray morph and the red morph is the female.
8:30 pm last night in local park. I have quite a few screech photos but this is only my 2nd or 3rd time seeing screech owls not just sitting in a cavity. And never caught an adult pair side-by-side. They are a breeding pair, male is the gray morph and the red morph is the female.
Great picture. I couldn't help myself to come back with ... "guess which one is the female" picture.
