Birds of Fall 2016
Welcome to my visual diary of the beautiful birds I photographed during the fall months. I was so blessed to encounter a new bird species for me and a rare one at that...a Black-throated Blue Warbler photographed at Descanso Gardens.
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A beautiful adult White-crowned Sparrow, singing, within a rose bush.
A young male White-crowned Sparrow learns the basics of the song it will sing as an adult during the first two or three months of its life. It does not learn directly from its father, but rather from the generalized song environment of its natal neighborhood. Because male White-crowned Sparrows learn the songs they grow up with and typically breed close to where they were raised, song dialects frequently form. Males on the edge of two dialects may be bilingual and able to sing both dialects.
