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Spring Migration on South Padre Island, Texas

10,000 Birds

Many may not make it to their breeding grounds due to the extreme stress of the situation, lack of resources, the weather itself, disorientation, and human-caused killers like windows and cars. Birders explore these migrant traps, which are an oasis of food, water, and shelter, to see if anything has been blown in.

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Winter Wood-Warblers in Southeast Florida

10,000 Birds

While most of the country will soon witness a mass exodus in terms of diversity and numbers of warblers, southeast Florida’s formerly empty suburban parks will soon be full of wintering passerines seeking food and shelter in the balmy, pseudo-tropical climate again.

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