10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

North America is in the prime of raptor migration season, with millions of hawks, accipters, and buteos flying south for the winter. I’ve been fortunate enough to enjoy outings to two hotspots that aren’t yet on the map: Chestnut Ridge Hawkwatch in Bedford, NY, and Illinois Beach State Park in Zion, Illinois.

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Illinois Pennsylvania United States North America 193

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

More than concerned, he is dismayed and alarmed and has been since January 1974, when he first witnessed a Mourning Dove fly into a window and fall to the ground dead on the Southern Illinois University campus. This was his trigger moment, when he decided to find out why birds fly into glass windows and die.

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 259

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

The scope is worldwide; of the 24 birds depicted, five are from the Americas; five from Eurasia; three from New Zealand; two from Australasia; three from Africa; one from Africa and Asia; one from Antarctica; two worldwide, and two from Asia, introduced worldwide.

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Chicago Barn Owls Penguins New Zealand 188

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2015

Musselman of Quincy Illinois is generally credited with originating the bluebird conservation movement that extended beyond local boundaries. This film is condensed from about a three hour fledging experience of Western Bluebirds being coaxed from their nest box. ” Nest Boxes (Bird Houses) from 1912. It was in 1926 that Thomas E.

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Tenant Farming Illinois North America 161