10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2019

For example, the legendary ornithologist Alexander Wilson happened upon in his broad travels a warbler previously undescribed by science. Virginia’s Warbler –which never turns up in Virginia–can be the Big-eyed Warbler. Naming a bird species for the part of the world in which it breeds or resides makes sense.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2021

410)) to info on habitat and range (“In the Rockies and other arid mountains of the interior Southwest, Virginia’s Warbler prefers scrubby brush interspersed with pinyon-juniper and yellow pine” (p. 334) is how Black Skimmer is introduced). The 24-page introductory section reads like a beginner’s guide to birding.

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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. Lots to think about.

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