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I was wondering about the birds too, but I like them!
image of bird feet > Phil's gross foot image
janine wrote: "image of bird feet > Phil's gross foot image"Zebra finches. Boy on left. Their song is 'beep beep'.
They breed like mice.
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Rare bird spotted in North Lawndale -- 7,000 miles north of home
(that's in Chicago)
“This is one bird short of being the rarest sight ever,” remarked Greg Bretz, who said he hopped on a plane Saturday morning from Orlando, Fla. after hearing about the bird via the North American Rare Bird Alert subscription service on Wednesday. “It’s a nice high to see that.”
The American Birding Association has yet to conclusively identify that the bird is, indeed, an Elaenia. But if the find is confirmed, it would be only the second sighting of an Elaenia bird in the United States. The first was also a White-crested Elaenia in South Texas in 2008.
According to the Cornell Lab of Orinthology, the White-crested Elaenia, or Elaenia albiceps, is 13.5 to 15 centimeters long and weighs about half an ounce. They are normally found in forest edges in the Andes Mountains throughout western and southern South America.
Nobody could say how or why it wound up in North Lawndale.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/lo...
Nobody could say how or why it wound up in North Lawndale.For the Chicago pizza?
This time of year we have flocks of yellow tailed black cockatoos flying about looking for food. They live in the Centennial Parklands, down the road from where I live. 
My son and his friend found a fledgling on the sidewalk this morning. After bringing it in to show to me, and putting it briefly in a grass & leaf-filled shoebox, they put him back out where his mom and dad could find him.Cute little bird; got all the feathers but not quite ready to fly.
Will the parents take it back Phil?
Typically they do. There's a common misconception that the parents won't accept it back if it smells like humans, but that has been disproven.This baby is gone, so he either wandered off on his own, got eaten by a predator, or was found by mom & dad.
How do the parents get the baby back in the nest?
thats right, chicks that have fallen out of the nest will be hidden as well as possible, and continued to be fed, but unless the nestis ground level, or near to, its not getting back into the nest.I'm a sucker for wounded animals too Kyle. Though I learned not to take them in after taking in a pigeon with a broken wing, and it died of shock from the experience. A happier ending was when I found another pigeon in the park floundering in the bushes, and I picked it up, and found it was wrapped up in fishing wire, with one end going into its mouth. WIth the help of one of the park wardens, we unravelled it, and pulled the wire out of its beak, bringing its crop wit it, we extracted the hook from the crop, and let the bird go. The maggot that had caught its eye in the first place was still attached to the hook.
Hawklets are fledging on the bird cam. The herons are my favorites because they don't eat fluffy animals.http://www.allaboutbirds.org/page.asp...
I took this picture this morning through my laundry window.
Gail wrote: "I took this picture this morning through my laundry window. "
Nice pic Gail, thanks for sharing.
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Why are there birds in all the threads? Are you trying to tweet?