10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2023

The Kirtland’s Warbler is an endangered bird species that breeds primarily in the jack pine forests of northern Michigan. Specifically, the warbler’s primary breeding range is concentrated in a few counties in the northern Lower Peninsula and the eastern Upper Peninsula of Michigan.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2019

Naming a bird species for the part of the world in which it breeds or resides makes sense. Even Canada Warbler (which should really be rechristened Necklaced Warbler ) breeds almost entirely in Canada, which is far more than can be said for the Canada Goose ! NAMED FOR PLACES.

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Rights Connecticut Tennessee Nashville 113

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2011

One was “Superdad,” one of the few successful breeding whooping cranes in the entire eastern population. Eastern flyway breeding populations appear to be maxing out their available habitat, and are subject to abundant natural limitations such as ground predation by coyotes, foxes, raccoons and opossums. Quick: what’s this?

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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.)

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10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2013

The hope is that their presence while inspire the grown-ups to breeding success. Speaking of birds in nests, five Chilean Flamingo chicks who were raised by a human “surrogate dad” at a British wildlife center have now graduated to joining the adults in the center’s colony.

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Michigan Chile Tennessee North America 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2011

Just click here to hear a recording of a bird taken in Tennessee. Sadly, the thrushes that breed around my parents’ house are likely not very successful in raising young. But being beautiful to the ear, echoing a song off of moss-covered logs, now that is where a bird of the forest floor can really stand out and be noticed.

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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 135

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2019

However, even now, the ancient movements of birds between summer breeding grounds and tropical wintering places have been taking place in Costa Rica. Every time it happens, second growth habitat that was used by Yellow Warblers, Tennessee Warblers , and other migrant and resident birds is suddenly gone.

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Costa Rica South America Tennessee 2019 147

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

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. They believe it is the first documented case of birds making detours to avoid destructive weather systems on the basis of infrasound.

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Science Iraq Research Birds 151

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. In my home state, Bald Eagles are breeding in 35 Ohio counties. And my thinking has come around 180 degrees from where it was. I get it now, I really do.

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Bald Eagle Eagles Hunting Kentucky 255

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. At one time six Tennessee Warblers were overwhelming an orange half.

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Texas Alabama Alligators Nashville 206

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 245

10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2023

Unfortunately, the Ashy Drongos did not exactly do what he predicted that they would do – mob potential predators more frequently during the breeding season and mob the more dangerous predator (in this case, the Black Eagle) more intensely. ” From Memphis, Tennessee directly to Tengchong, Yunnan: The Crested Finchbill.

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China 2017 Birds Indonesia 181

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

We get to see a lot of them around here, and familiarity breeds, not contempt certainly, but perhaps apathy. The hard-checking, tough-as-nails Yellow-rumped Warblers , who will be here until the last northbound migrants chase them back to the boreal forests in May.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. With the proposed hunting seasons on sandhill cranes being discussed in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin, we must not forget the whooping crane, which travels and winters in the big sandhill crane flocks. Another thing to consider.

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