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Loud morning birds
seem to be speaking together
in different languages.
For Bird Weekly: https://oureyesopen.blog/2021/06/11/bird-weekly-photo-challenge-birds-with-stripes-spots-or-freckles/
Avian Fashion: Dots and Stripes
lifelessons - a blog by Judy Dykstra-Brown 
Beautiful birds Judy! Can you tell me what species the first photo is? I love those freckles. 🙂
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I believe it is a sparrow.
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Great! I’m going to try to find it but it might be difficult to get the exact species. 🙂
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It’s a European sparrow, brought over here from England in the mid 1800s. They now live absolutely EVERYWHERE in North America.
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Yes, by a man who had the romantic idea of importing all the birds mentioned by Shakespeare. Not such a good idea afterall. I think it is the starlings that have created a big problem.
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They sure do, and doing it here too 🙂
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I have the opposite problem. Almost everything that lives in the woods — other than crows, cardinals, and cowbirds — is striped, freckled, dappled, or spotted. All the solid color birds seem to live near the ocean or in the wetlands. But woodland birds — to blend in with the surrounding scenery? — seems to be multi-colored and rather amusingly motley.
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Makes sense.
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