We start with this unfortunate male Common bullfinch Pyrrhula pyrrhula, killed by collision with a car and kindly passed to me by Phil Budd of the Southampton Natural History Society. Phil noticed that … Rooks are weird, bare-faced crows, unique to Eurasia, often associated with farmland and well known for their habit of probing into soil in quest of insect larvae and other prey (they were covered at length on Tet Zoo back in May 2013: link below). Rook with left-side … …

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Thrilling encounters with freak passerine birds – Scientific American