10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2018

This is the Mississippi Kite, which used to live all up and down the Mississippi, even way up to the source at Itasca. Anybody out there know why the Mississippi Kite has abandoned most of the Mississippi? The Mississippi Kite. The Mississippi Kite. But not any more. Collection of Blue Birds.

Mississippi 101

Mississippi Minnesota Birds Abandon 101

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2016

As reported by the fine folks at The Dodo , after Hurricane Katrina forced Katrina “Kasia” Perkowska to evacuate, she started bringing her pet Wood Duck , Scooter, to her mother-in-law’s nursing home in Mississippi. Scooter is now getting on in years and has suffered health setbacks. But that’s a whole ’nother rant.)

Pets 158

Pets Rescue Mississippi Chickens 158

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2019

Old Crow’s parent company was sold to Jim Beam in 1987 and the new owners abandoned the Old Crow distillery and whichever version of the “original” recipe was being followed at the time. By my reckoning, 500 miles up the Mississippi River as the steamboat goes only gets you as far as the Mississippi-Louisiana-Arkansas tripoint.

Mississippi 116

Mississippi Kentucky New York Tennessee 116

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

So here’s the rest of it, complete with veering, zigzagging, and the eventual abandonment of the original topic altogether, which is what happens when you put rehabbers together in August. “Looks like I’m going to have to do a Rehabber Slang, Part 2,” I wrote. “No No #*%t,” replied reader Clarence Bartow.

Wildlife Rehabilitation 207

Wildlife Rehabilitation Turtles Turkey Wildlife 207

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2015

Maybe it was a version of the Mississippi River, maybe it was a version of the Warren River, likely both. The adults move to flocks, there may be two or three of them, that hang out mostly far off shore in the larger part of the lake, abandoning their embayments or otherwise protected areas. Then one day they are gone.

Humane 201

Humane Eagles Investigation Research 201