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Posted by steve siegel on 18:21:30 10/26/08
This is a bit off-topic, but I thought it was interesting. My wife and I spent a couple of days last week in Atlantic City (she gambles, I go to Brigantine NWR). I was filming some sparrows underneath a row of stores on the Atlantic City boardwalk. Turns out that they were both Salt-marsh and Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrows and Seaside Sparrow all together under these buildings, feeding in the surf that came through the pilings. What a strategy! No hawks down there, and when a mammalian predator comes by, just flit through the chain-link fence. Pretty smart.
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