While eating my lunch a bird came to the

[justplugit]

The ones i miss, and haven't seen since i was a kid are the Rosebreasted Grossbeak, Blue Bunting and Scarlet Taninger. Although i was lucky enough to see a flock of the Scarlets in a grove of white birches 25 years ago.

We get the warbler flights come through here the 1st week in May.
The woods are alive with their singing.

Amazing ,you can get within 2 ft of some of the them as in many cases they have never seen a human being in their flights from the rain forests to the tundra.

[FishermanTim]

A lot of the 'colorful" song birds (bluebirds for example) are having a hard time keeping their numbers up because of the cowbird.
The cowbird will lay it's egg in with the bluebirds, and it will hatch first.
The chick will then proceed to push out its competitors, and I mean literally push them out of the nest. That is why when driving through a lot of rural areas they put up bluebird boxes to try and prevent the cowbirds from invading the nests.
I saw a special on this a number of years ago, but I can't recall where.

(Here's another screw-up that';s man-made: snakes in Hawaii.
Hawaii doesn't have snakes, except for the ones that stowed away with air shipments over the years. The result is that there are species of birds in Hawaii and the south pacific that have been eradicated.)

[justplugit]

Ya FT, it's amazing how many birds have become extinct.

My wife bought a book, Birds of NY State published in 1843 at a garage sale for two dollars! It's about 10 inches thick with all colored lithographs that are worth a fortune if you break up the pics in the book, but she has kept it together for it's historical value.

You wouldn't believe the pictures of birds and ducks that were there at the time
and now extinct for various reasons, mostly because of man.