'What kind of birds do you often see around your town?'

@Shavkat (141905)
Philippines
January 22, 2021 10:50pm CST
In my city, the Eurasian tree sparrow is the most common bird lurking around. They can be entertaining when seeing and hearing them chirping in the park. I used to walk around the park before this pandemic. In the neighborhood, they cannot just land on the ground since stray cats are waiting for them. Are your whiskers good hunters of birds? Are any birds seen in your place today? Image Credit: upload.wikimedia.org
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@Deepizzaguy (122379)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
23 Jan 21
I see on occasion cardinals or crows.
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
23 Jan 21
I checked a cardinal photo. It also resembles the size of a sparrow. But I like the color of it. I seldom see crows here in my city. Image Credit: marysrosaries.com
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@Deepizzaguy (122379)
• Lake Charles, Louisiana
23 Jan 21
@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
24 Jan 21
@Shavkat I did see one on my trip to Baltimore, but none of the locals could tell me what it was!
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@maezee (41985)
• United States
23 Jan 21
I have NO idea, I should learn more about birds!
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
23 Jan 21
@maezee I, myself are not that expert in identifying birdies in this world. I just sometimes rely on what I read and seen in books or on the Internet. Our local zoos are not that well-equipped in having these wild birds. But I had seen some of the native birds in my country.
@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
24 Jan 21
@Shavkat Wild birds in zoos? That does not sound very nature-friendly to me!
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@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
23 Jan 21
I get the impression that bird knowledge is a bit thin on the ground in the US! On my only visit to the States - a few days in Baltimore in 2009 - I could find nobody who had any idea about the birds I was seeing. This was a shame, because your birds are completely different to the ones I see around me in the UK.
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
24 Jan 21
This link shows some of the birds that visit our property There are more such as peacocks
I created this video with the YouTube Slideshow Creator (http://www.youtube.com/upload)Happy to share my moments with the birds that visit Solitaire
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@allknowing (153529)
• India
24 Jan 21
@Shavkat You are most welcome. Let the pandemic get over. When you open that link put your speakers on as the music there is nice.
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
24 Jan 21
Let me check it. I hope I can have some peacocks in my backyard. I hope I can visit your solitaire in the future. Is that possible?
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
24 Jan 21
@allknowing I did check it. I like hearing them. Thank you in advance.
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@msdivkar (23356)
• India
23 Jan 21
Crows and pigeons are the most common birds here. We see lot of other birds also including cranes and eagles. We have water bodies like lakes nearby there the flock of cranes gather all the time.
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@msdivkar (23356)
• India
24 Jan 21
@Shavkat The once in the picture are too big. What we have got are smaller ones and white in colour. They are migratory birds.
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
24 Jan 21
@msdivkar I believe they need to migrate if it is winter, right?
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
23 Jan 21
I remembered my cousin before. He loves raising pigeons. The cranes are not visible here in my country. I think they are commonly seen in places with four seasons. Image Credit: ca-times.brightspotcdn.com
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@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
26 Jan 21
I often see this kind of bird here and back home. They usually mess up with the seeds I plant that is why I've put a nylon net over the vegetables I planted here. I had no success though with the grass seeds I planted because they just step on the net and eat the grass seeds.
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
27 Jan 21
Are they pestering the veggies? I think it needs to have the net.
@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
30 Jan 21
@sunrisefan That's not a good thing. It needs to protect the land areas with seeds.
@sunrisefan (28524)
• Philippines
27 Jan 21
@Shavkat Yes, the eat the newly-planted seeds and scratch the soil thus many of my seeds before did not grow.
@thelme55 (79368)
• Germany
23 Jan 21
Pigeons are coming to our balcony these last few days.
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
24 Jan 21
I am jealous. I can see most of them in Burnham Park in my city. I used to hang out here before the pandemic.
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
24 Jan 21
@thelme55 What time of the day that they usually visit?
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@thelme55 (79368)
• Germany
24 Jan 21
@Shavkat they have not come today yet.
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@snowy22315 (209239)
• United States
23 Jan 21
Little brown non descript ones mostly, but there are also cardinal, bluebirds, purple martins and blue jays on occassion.
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
24 Jan 21
It is a good thing that I did this discussion. I am learning about different species of birds. It is nice to find out about purple martin. Image Credit: gardenerspath.com
@May2k8 (19793)
• Indonesia
23 Jan 21
Sparrow, I don't know who named it that.
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@May2k8 (19793)
• Indonesia
23 Jan 21
@Shavkat The most famous of these is the eagle.
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
24 Jan 21
@May2k8 That's nice. It seems we have the same national bird. We called it "The Monkey Eating Eagle."
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
23 Jan 21
I haven't checked it. Does your country have a national bird?
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@prinzcy (32299)
• Malaysia
23 Jan 21
In the city? If not pigeons, then crows. Normally only those two would fly there.
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
23 Jan 21
I seldom see a crow here. But I like how big it is and how high it can fly. Image Credit: cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net
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@RasmaSandra (98156)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
24 Jan 21
That is a cute bird. I only see the ones that land on my porch when I put out bread. The last one was a winter warbler that I wrote about and it is a migratory bird here
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
24 Jan 21
It is a new thing to know about the winter warbler. (t looks like a sparrow but is a bit fatter in size. Image Credit: bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com
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@JudyEv (382693)
• Rockingham, Australia
24 Jan 21
That's a pretty little bird. We have a lot of birds here but thankfully, don't have a cat.
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
24 Jan 21
I think it is a cute one. I must say that I cannot pet any birdies in my city. I am not good at it.
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
23 Jan 21
We see sparrows, mynas, crows, indian bulbul and many pigeons. We do have eagles at times in evening.
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
23 Jan 21
I got interested in the India bulbul. Does it look like this? Image Credit: upload.wikimedia.org
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@arunima25 (93194)
• Bangalore, India
23 Jan 21
@Shavkat Yes. Sometimes the neck is red. Red neck bulbul is more common here.
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@Rashnag (30597)
• Surat, India
23 Jan 21
We are able to see sparrows, parrots, pigeons and crows over here
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
24 Jan 21
You are lucky to see some parrots there like Indian Ring-Necked Parakeet. We only see them in the local zoo. Image Credit: afeber.com
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@Rashnag (30597)
• Surat, India
24 Jan 21
@Shavkat yes dear
@Babale (1874)
• Semarang, Indonesia
24 Jan 21
In our place, sparrows are often seen as pests. Especially for farmers in suburban areas, because they often eat large quantities of rice grains in the fields that are starting to turn yellow. If they get caught or killed, they are usually fried and made into a side dish. Poor, right?
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
24 Jan 21
That would be the end of their lives. I remembered my cousin in the province. He used to hunt and kill them. I never tried to eat the poor thing.
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@kaylachan (84928)
• Daytona Beach, Florida
23 Jan 21
I saw white ones yesterday. I had to stop so they could cross the road, literally because they are THAT comfortable. No cat can eat them, because they're bigger than the cats.
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
23 Jan 21
Are they like seagulls? Aren't they? I am sure whiskers cannot hunt them down.
@jstory07 (148798)
• Roseburg, Oregon
23 Jan 21
Big black birds I am not sure what they are called.
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
23 Jan 21
I had seen a crow a few months back. Perhaps it is like this.
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• United States
23 Jan 21
lots 'f sparrows 's well 's many others here daily. they come to my lil sanctuary fer food 'n water, shelter high'n the trees/vines. lots 'f ferals here, e'ery now'n then they're successful with their hunts. which saddens me greatly. lots 'f finches, dark-eyed juncos, sparrows (3 diff'rent kinds), pine siskins, couple 'f mockin'birds, curve-billed thrasher 'n the pair 'f blue jays.
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@indexer (4852)
• Leicester, England
23 Jan 21
We make a point of keeping our garden bird feeders well stocked, so get regular visits from house sparrows, jackdaws, starlings, blackbirds, woodpigeons and collared doves. Less regular visitors include wrens, robins, great t*ts, greenfinches and pied wagtails. We occasional see a sparrowhawk - and absolutely nothing else when this happens! On my dog walk round the local fields yesterday I stood and watched a song thrush as it sang away, high on a tree. Other regularly seen birds on these walks include rooks, goldfinches, blue t*ts and long-tailed t*ts. One day last week I saw a little egret, at almost the same place that I saw one about three years ago. (Apologies for the asterisks - an oddity of the software that cannot tell the difference between a perfectly acceptable word and a mild obscenity! Substitute the letter "i")
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@dgobucks226 (37621)
23 Jan 21
Nice photo of the sparrow. I have many types of birds which visit my backyard to eat at my bird feeder. Robins, Bluejays, Cardinals, Wrens, and Nut Hatch. Here is a photo of another bird visitor called a chickadee.
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@ZedSmart (19839)
• Philippines
23 Jan 21
I think they're the most common I noticed too. There's a big tree not far from home and they stayed there every morning enjoying their food.
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@Shavkat (141905)
• Philippines
23 Jan 21
It means the eco-system is balanced in your place. I think they are not harmful to crops and fine to be in the farmlands, too. I can only see them in trees here.
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