10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

According to the data the authors gathered from banded and recovered Blue Jays , the species shows both a northward post-breeding dispersal (which we’re probably seeing right now, in September) and a southward migration. That last bit is my own interpretation of the data.)

Alabama 107

Alabama West Virginia New York City New York 107

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2011

Why put additional pressure on a recovering species? One was “Superdad,” one of the few successful breeding whooping cranes in the entire eastern population. The handful of pairs that are attempting to nest in Ohio appear to winter in Tennessee. Could Ohio lose its entire pioneer breeding population? What if they’re shot?

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Kentucky Hunters Hunting Protest 260

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

Snow has touched down in some places up north, up there on the breeding grounds of Mourning Warblers , Baltimore Orioles , and Sharp-shinned Hawks. It’s a welcome sound of “winter” in Costa Rica along with the chipping of Yellow Warblers , steady appearance of Chestnut-sided Warblers , and ticking notes of Tennessees.

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Costa Rica Baltimore Illinois Honduras 136

10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2011

Just click here to hear a recording of a bird taken in Tennessee. Wood Thrush are considered a Species of Least Concern by BirdLife International despite their declining population, because of their large range and population. Have you never heard a Wood Thrush and want to know what their song sounds like?

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Tennessee North America New York Raised 169

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

In Costa Rica, it’s also happening, not as in full force mode as the temperate north but that will change in a month when we see thousands of Eastern Wood-pewees , flocks of Eastern Kingbirds , and other species hurrying their way to South America. Where will those birds go when they come back looking for food and shelter?

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Costa Rica South America Tennessee 2019 159

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2011

Bald Eagle image is by Francois Portmann and is used with permission You know, I’ve been thinking about this whole dustup over hunting cranes in Tennessee and now Kentucky. There was a lot of hunting for Bald Eagles—it is traditionally a game species. In my home state, Bald Eagles are breeding in 35 Ohio counties.

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Bald Eagle Eagles Hunting Kentucky 261

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

If this was America, we might not be concerned because starlings are an invasive species, at least in North America. The golden-winged warblers had just returned from South America to their breeding grounds in the mountains of Tennessee in 2013 when a massive storm was edging closer.

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Science Iraq Research Birds 152

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2024

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. So, maintaining habitat along the coastline is vital to supporting these species.

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Texas Alabama Alligators Nashville 222

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

If you wrote to Tennessee in the 10,000 Birds campaign this winter, you can cut and paste your letter, changing “Tennessee&# to “Kentucky.&# We fought them back in Tennessee; there’s a two-year stay on their proposal. We can fight them back in Kentucky, too.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 255

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

For example, a researcher and presumed ornithologist set out with two hypotheses related to the Ashy Drongo (and another drongo species) and wrote a paper about it. For them, God probably was the one instructing the drongos to mob one species but not the other. Why show photos of species as boring as this Ashy-throated Warbler ?

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China 2017 Birds Indonesia 193

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

The flocks that just a fortnight ago held multiple species in varied, if subdued, hues, now overwhelmingly consist of a single species. We get to see a lot of them around here, and familiarity breeds, not contempt certainly, but perhaps apathy. It seems to me to have been a good budworm year.

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North America North Carolina South America America 206

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death. Birders know that the light’s not always perfect or even particularly good when you’re trying to tell one species from another. The big white one. It flies on.

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