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04/29/2007 08:30:19 PM · #26 |
Originally posted by smartypants:
I think it looks more like the American Tree Sparrow. Don't ask me, though. Whenever I see one of those birds I just think "finch" and move on! |
This is an American Tree Sparrow
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04/29/2007 09:25:06 PM · #27 |
I've seen a bird hit a window and do exactly as you described. I was sure it was a goner as it went into shock. It sat there dazed for a long time, and then flew away.
Recently I witnessed a crow that I think had been hit by a car. It was flailing about violently on it's back and acting as though it were very broken. Finally, it got upright and was sitting in the parking lot looking stunned. I approached it cautiously (in case it had a disease) and tried to shoo it off onto the grass. It took a couple of hops and then flew away.
Moral of the story: Birds are tough! |
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04/29/2007 09:38:59 PM · #28 |
You know, of all of those the chipping sparrow looks the most like it.
Atleast we've confirmed that its a sparrow.
I still wish I would've buried it or something.
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I think a dog ran off with the body.
All I found today was feathers. |
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04/30/2007 12:47:15 AM · #29 |
Awwww... Poor thing. About the birds getting drunk, yes, it's very common. Happens here in Montana a lot over the winter when the birds eat mountain ash tree berries that have been on the trees fermenting for several months - then they fly into windows due to "drunk flying". Growing up I saw it happen a lot because I had mountain ash trees in my yard. The birds usually were okay, though.
Message edited by author 2007-04-30 00:47:46.
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04/30/2007 12:59:14 AM · #30 |
Originally posted by jodiecoston:
Awwww... Poor thing. About the birds getting drunk, yes, it's very common. Happens here in Montana a lot over the winter when the birds eat mountain ash tree berries that have been on the trees fermenting for several months - then they fly into windows due to "drunk flying". Growing up I saw it happen a lot because I had mountain ash trees in my yard. The birds usually were okay, though. |
In the far west, this often happens with robins eating pyracantha berries.
But, when you have a possibly sick bird these days, you need to be concerned about West Nile Virus. |
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04/30/2007 02:14:45 AM · #31 |
I had a tiny bird hit the window, and when I went out it was on the porch, stunned. I gently picked it up and checked for signs of breakage, found none and put it down again.
A few minutes later it was lying with its wings out, head flopped over, seemingly dead. I decided to leave it a little longer, and next I looked, it was climbing on the side of the house!
When I looked it up in my guide I found it was a brown creeper, and it will "play dead" against the trunk of a tree, becoming nearly invisible. I guess it didn't realise that it didn't blend in too well with the grey paint! Glad he was okay, though :) |
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04/30/2007 02:31:30 AM · #32 |
| Where I live the beautiful bright parrots get drunk eating the fruit from the varieties of palms and berry tree that we have here. They fly into windows, cars and even people on push bikes. It can be funny to see them walking drunk but not so funny when they fly drunk and die. I guess it doesn't pay to drink and fly either. |
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04/30/2007 11:15:50 AM · #33 |
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I better not get west nile.
My friend in Illinois said it wiped out all of the crows in his town.
I don't think we had a huge problem here, then again Illinois is right next door.. |
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04/30/2007 01:32:06 PM · #34 |
| We've avoided it so far, out here, but it'll get here eventually. |
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04/30/2007 01:55:30 PM · #35 |
| Zeuszen was right on. Song Sparrow. Chipping and Am. Tree Sparrows both have rusty-capps and plain non-striped breasts. The nearest looking sparrow to Song Sparrow is Fox Sparrow, but is larger and has a two colored bill (yellowish lower mandible and dark upper mandible). Van |
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04/30/2007 02:09:16 PM · #36 |
I had a dove hit the window here last year REALLY hard. It lived and I got a few pics of the marks it left on the glass -
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04/30/2007 02:13:09 PM · #37 |
Woah.
=o
..Ouch.
Atleast the poor fella lived.
Still.. Ouch.
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