10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

They reach breeding maturity at four to seven years of age, produce only one chick per nesting season, and only one in three offspring survive to fledging age. Ohio has tracked two families of their state-endangered breeding sandhill cranes and found them to have wintered over in Tennessee in 2010. It’s free!

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 239

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

This display is called strutting and the purpose of this display is to attract hens for breeding. Benjamin Franklin disapproved of the selection of the Bald Eagle as our national bird, calling it “a Bird of bad moral Character.” The fleshy growth under a turkey’s throat is called a wattle.

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Turkey Bald Eagle Game North America 236

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

I wonder what Americans would think if, in a Wikipedia entry, a Bald Eagle would be illustrated using a photo taken at an Albanian zoo. There was a breeding pair at Binjiang Forest Park this June. But I am grumbling a little bit about it. Similarly, the Yellow-rumped Flycatcher is the White-browed Flycatcher in Chinese.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 179