Melierax Posted November 6, 2020 Author Share Posted November 6, 2020 3 hours ago, Seanbirds said: Does thorn scrub/ thorn brush/ mesquite scrub count as desert? @Melierax @Connor Cochrane @Anybody else Sure! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanbirds Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 4 minutes ago, Melierax said: Sure! Good! I will post some of my photos from the semiarid south Texas area. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanbirds Posted November 6, 2020 Share Posted November 6, 2020 Green Jay,(sorry for the bad photos) White-tipped Dove, Olive Sparrow, and Long-billed Thrasher. All photos were taken at Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge. Great place to go birding!! https://www.fws.gov/refuge/laguna_atascosa/ 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BirdNrd Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 bump. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BirdNrd Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Horned Lark 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor Cochrane Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Sage Sparrow 7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BirdNrd Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Burrowing Owl, Common Raven, Horned Lark, Western Meadowlark, Golden Eagle, Northern Harrier, Barn Owl, and Mountain Bluebird. 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BirdNrd Posted July 18, 2021 Share Posted July 18, 2021 Great Horned Owl, Prairie Falcon, Loggerhead Shrike, Red-tailed Hawk, Lark Sparrow, Western Meadowlark, Rock Wren, Lincoln's Sparrow, Nuttall's Woodpecker, Dark-morph Ferruginous Hawk, Ferruginous Hawk, Sage Thrasher, Merlin, and Vesper Sparrow. 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor Cochrane Posted July 19, 2021 Share Posted July 19, 2021 Bendire's Thrasher 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Friedman Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 Please define "desert". I think I live in one (Española, N.M.). Does that mean any photo I take in my yard or around town counts? Even ones on the Rio Grande or the fishing lakes and marshes (not necessarily totally natural) that adjoin it? How about the water-treatment ponds where I work, south of Santa Fe? (It's raining right now. I'm very pleased.) Anyway, here's a Curve-billed Thrasher in a very convincing cactus next to my yard. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Friedman Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 Sorry, that thrasher was actually up the highway a ways. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neilpa Posted July 20, 2021 Share Posted July 20, 2021 Some from Joshua Tree California Thrasher Verdin Black-throated Sparrow Gambel's Quail Brewer's Sparrow California Scrub-Jay 6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 Costa’s Hummingbird 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
IKLland Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 Adult and juv verdin 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Jefferson Shank Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jerry Friedman Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 (edited) OK, since nobody answered my question, I'll just stick to reasonably deserty birds in reasonably deserty habitats, so no cormorants. Gray Vireo Lark Sparrow Western Bluebird Sagebrush Sparrows Black-throated Sparrow Edited July 21, 2021 by Jerry Friedman 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bird Brain Posted July 21, 2021 Share Posted July 21, 2021 4 hours ago, Jerry Friedman said: OK, since nobody answered my question, I'll just stick to reasonably deserty birds in reasonably deserty habitats, so no cormorants. Sorry, Jerry. I missed seeing your question, which is a good one. I would take it to mean any bird seen in a desert environment, and I would say a desert is any environment which is normally arid and lacks permanent water holes or streams. That is a rather loose definition, since we know that deserts can and do get floods on occasion, and there are deserts that have rivers that run through them. You mentioned Cormorants, which made me think of the photo below that I took a few years back. I was driving on a long, lonely dirt road in N Calif through what fits the description of a desert. There was no water for miles and miles around to my knowledge. I spotted something sitting on the crossbar of a power pole up ahead and figured it was a Hawk. When I got close enough to ID it, to my surprise it turned out to be this Cormorant!! So I snapped this photo. While the Cormorant is not expected in a desert environment, there it was. I figured it flew up there, the highest point around for miles, to see if it could spot some water somewhere!!! ? 1 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stitch58 Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 On 7/19/2021 at 11:30 PM, Jerry Friedman said: Please define "desert". I think I live in one (Española, N.M.). Does that mean any photo I take in my yard or around town counts? Even ones on the Rio Grande or the fishing lakes and marshes (not necessarily totally natural) that adjoin it? How about the water-treatment ponds where I work, south of Santa Fe? (It's raining right now. I'm very pleased.) Anyway, here's a Curve-billed Thrasher in a very convincing cactus next to my yard. It's funny, I live in New Jersey & I've seen 18 of the species pictured here in New Jersey & the closest thing we have to a desert is the shore ?. 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seanbirds Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 9 hours ago, stitch58 said: It's funny, I live in New Jersey & I've seen 18 of the species pictured here in New Jersey & the closest thing we have to a desert is the shore ?. Wow! Crissal Thrasher? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor Cochrane Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 Broad-tailed Hummingbird (actually at a golf course in the desert, but close enough) 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Connor Cochrane Posted July 22, 2021 Share Posted July 22, 2021 Common Ground Dove 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stitch58 Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 13 hours ago, Seanbirds said: Wow! Crissal Thrasher? Nope but did see Sage ?. There's a few more that have been posted that have been in my general area that I dipped on too. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 On 11/6/2020 at 3:10 PM, Seanbirds said: Good! I will post some of my photos from the semiarid south Texas area. Well if mesquite scrub counts iv have some! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Posted July 23, 2021 Share Posted July 23, 2021 (edited) BURROWING OWL!!!! Edited July 23, 2021 by Kevin 4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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