Female Brown-headed Cowbird
My friend Jen from “A Passion for Nature” solved her banded bird mystery yesterday! If you are interested in learning about about her amazing “find” . . . . please visit her post!! Don’t you love science?
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I am a naturalist, field biologist and nature photographer from the Western New York area. I have started exploring nature writing through this blog and it truly has been fun sharing my numerous adventures with everyone. Thanks to the many other authors that help me with my post and they will be sharing some of their nature explorations.
I have always had a latent interest in birds and photography and have been lucky enough to find time to explore these interests over the last few years. I am very thankful to the Cattaraugus County Bird Club for getting me started, sharing their wealth of knowledge and for their wonderful programs. And many thanks to Tom for letting me share some of my adventures and photos on the Monarch Nature Blog.
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Stunning photo, as usual! I’ve been sending homeschoolers to your site. Its such a great resource!
29 February 2008 at 8:30 am
What a remarkable fellow. I am learning so much here. Now if I can recognize my local birds – if they ever come out of hiding,
29 February 2008 at 8:35 am
Yes! Science rocks! Thanks for sharing!
29 February 2008 at 9:18 am
Science is amazing.
29 February 2008 at 10:49 am
That is such an interesting story, and a mystery solved.
29 February 2008 at 11:15 am
Yep, science is amazing, ad I’m glad that the mystery has been solved. (And the photo of the cowbird here on your page is just stunning.)
29 February 2008 at 2:34 pm
I always like to find out where the banded birds come from. There is a lot of banding that goes on up north. This is where most of our banded birds hail from.
29 February 2008 at 4:14 pm
My. How interesting. I find myself wondering what caused her death. I think of birds as being a longer-lived than that.
29 February 2008 at 4:47 pm
That is an awesome picture.
29 February 2008 at 6:52 pm
Thanks for the plug, Tom!
29 February 2008 at 7:12 pm
Science makes us wonder… That’s the best photo of a cowbird I’ve seen.
29 February 2008 at 10:01 pm
@ Bellablue – what an honor to have such a great photographer like youself sending people to my site! It is greatly appreciated and I need to start adding a few things for homeschoolers to use! Thanks!
@ Barb – So glad you enjoyed this and one bird at a time is how we all learn them!
@ Liz – Yes it does and Jen has been so excited with this recovery!
@ Lynne – Sure is! Thanks
@ Robin – Glad you enjoyed this and Jen was a great detective!
@ Bobbie – thanks and I love when others help us learn about our birds movements!
@ Lisa – Since Jen (and myself) live just south of Canada . . . it is easy to believe many of our birds are from the North!
@ Cathy – it is hard to say and you should comment on Jens site . . she knows the situation of the bird much better than I would!
@ NatureShutterbug – thanks
@ Jen – so glad and thanks for letting me send people over to your amazing find!
@ Mary – it sure does and cowbirds are . . . well cowbirds! If you love them or hate them!
29 February 2008 at 10:58 pm
I have taken a thousand shots of cowbirds and honestly none give justice to both this pose and photograph. Really great shot!
1 March 2008 at 9:46 pm
Now that is a head shot, great shot Tom 🙂
2 March 2008 at 12:25 am
That’s really cool that Jen was able to find out where the bird came from! Science is wonderful.
Beautiful picture of this cowbird, Tom.
2 March 2008 at 6:16 pm
Fantastic photo! I’m going to check out that other post now.
4 March 2008 at 7:42 pm