Bachman's Sparrow - Peucaea aestivalis
Here is another "armchair" tick dug up from my trip to Florida for my law firm's partners conference last year. The photo was taken at 1243 on 23 May 2015 to be precise at the Walt Disney Wilderness Preserve. Mad dogs and Englishman !
This took a good 30 minute trawl through all the sparrow species in Sibley. Quite a nice little photo tick as well as it is an endemic to the South-Eastern United States. It is near threatened due to the loss of the open pine forest habitat it prefers. I guess this is why I found this one on a "preserve" full of pines - go figure !
This is what they need in the same way that we need air, water and food. This sparrow needs open pine with grassland and lots of grass as it is a granivore. The more grass the greater density of Bachman's Sparrows. The americans have measured it precisely.
There are 100,000's of plant species with many as yet described to science. As human's though we depend on just 8 plants in effect for 80 % of our calorific intake. We are a weed that strangles out diversity in favour of monoculture. A few "untidy" edges to the world is all we need otherwise no more Bachman's sparrows.
Bachman's Sparrow, Peucaea aestivalis
Disney Wilderness Preserve, near Orlando, Florida
23 May 2015
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