They flourish in the suburbs too. But I'm working on that.....
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San Marino is definitely wealthier than Boyle Heights, but is it whiter? Boyle Heights is largely Latino, while San Marino has a large Chinese population.
They flourish in the suburbs too. But I'm working on that.....
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A Marine Corps buddy of mine lived in Lansdowne, Maryland. After I was out I went to visit him and his wife.
They lived in a house but adjacent to their back yard was a dumpster and parking lot that was part of a apartment complex.
One day he smelled an awful odor of a dead animal coming from the dumpster. He went to investigate and found several dead cat skins and heads in the dumpster.
The apartment complex was primarily Asian folks, refugees from the Southeast wars...............
I’ve had several for pets. They make nice pets, but they can be utterly vicious toward other house sparrows.
Zebras are reactionaries
Antelopes are missionaries
Pigeons plot in secrecy
Seagulls are kind of cool. They will swoop down and catch bread that you toss up into the air. I never did this so don’t get mad at me. Seagulls can’t burp. You can condition them to swoop down and catch white bread then toss half of an alka seltzer. Mean. Not my idea either.
Did they control for the amount of concrete, asphalt and buildings covering the ground? Add that in and race would probably disappear as a potential cause. But then "concrete affects bird population" probably would never be published.
Snakes are spies...................
I’ve done this with gulls. The problem is, they come around in huge mobs, and get used to those who feed them.
Better not to encourage them :-)
There is only one solution..
Forced Bussing and integration!
House sparrows? My niece has raised one since it was maybe a couple days old and fell out of it's nest on her back porch early this past summer. I'm surprised that she was able to feed it at such a young age and raise it to now......
While she's home, it has the run of the house but she has to be careful since she has a couple of dogs.
She said she hasn't released it into the wild because it has a deformed foot.
She named her Grace, after her grandmother.
They’re hardy and easy to raise. We’ve raised them from completely featherless, fallen from the nest.
We give them regular Purina Cat Chow, soaked - not the kind for kittens, because you don’t want to give them any dairy stuff. Just pinch little pieces off and stuff it in there every hour or so.
(One vet told me that it was probably too ‘high test’ and I should give them something else, but several of mine have lived to be 10 years old, and I’m not going to mess with success.)
We had one that would sing along with music on the television.
Surely reparations are due to the brown and black birds which do not get the same quality food as the birds who live in White neighborhoods. $5 million to each “oppressed” bird should do it.
A few years ago, back when I was a field biologist, I performed a bird survey in a very remote mountain range in northern Nevada. On one transect point at the base of a cliff, I noticed a small flock of pigeons flying overhead. I was a bit astonished, as all my other pigeon sightings were in urban settings, of course. By I have to say, these birds were beautiful to watch in such a remote, natural setting. I later told the crew about it back at the field house, but they all laughed. I’m not sure they believed me, but I won’t forget it.
They’re very adaptable, but the type of environment you saw them is probably preferred. An absolutely beautiful bird.
freedom of association...
Researchers say that L.A.’s bird species are remarkably segregated.
Ever see an eagle and a crow nesting in the same area nope it’s what the eagle call lunch.
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