10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2014
Here’s what we knew about the Painted Bunting up until about 2010: 1. There are two Painted Bunting populations, one that breeds along the Atlantic Coast from North Carolina to Florida and one that breeds in the interior United States and northern Mexico from southeastern New Mexico to western Mississippi. Photo by Andy Morffew.
Critter News
MAY 11, 2010
Seems odd, although officials with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality said that fish they've tested have not been killed by oil, but a lack of oxygen in the water. Tags: dead animals marine life marine animals 2010 oil spill. But so far, it looks like the oil spill is not to blame. And what about the dead dolphin?
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 14, 2015
This common bird is also the state bird for Arkansas, Texas (another avian hot spot), Tennessee, and Mississippi, so Florida even misses points for originality. Unfortunately, Northern Mockingbirds are declining across the country, falling almost 20% from 1966 to 2010. Okay, it’s true, Northern Mockingbirds are fascinating birds.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2020
315 – Western Tanager , 25 November 2017: I’ve been predicting one of these since 2010 and it finally came true a mere seven years later. Swallow-tailed Kite : I had a hard time deciding between this species and Mississippi Kite. Seawatching paid off and I have to remember that if I want to keep adding new seabirds. (1
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2015
Note in this 2010 video, birders, birdwatching and kayakers are mentioned, not hunters. Located between the Mississippi River and Illinois River, the refuge encompasses 9,225 acres of riverine and floodplain habitat scattered around the confluence of the rivers. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk_5pt9OTLA. v=sk_5pt9OTLA.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2011
Which, naturally, got me to thinking about the newly erected order Suliformes, a development I mentioned in my December column, 2010′s Top 10 Developments in Bird Taxonomy and Systematics , but which I thought deserved further examination, for it’s one of those stories that defines the era in which we are living and birding.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 31, 2011
On this final day of 2011 it is time, just like it was on the final day of 2010 , to share your Best Birds of the Year. While I had heard Yellow Rails in North Dakota in 2010, to see this Ohio Review Species fly, not once but twice, right in front of me was an incredible experience.
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