10,000 Birds
JULY 8, 2013
Yes, the earth has gone around the sun twice since the uproar from birders and other lovers of wildlife managed to convince the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency to table the idea of hunting Sandhill Cranes in Tennessee for two years. Tennessee started a festival around the event, just for wildlife watchers.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 27, 2013
You may argue that they don’t wreak the same havoc with the indigenous species as do the two aforementioned invasives, but that would be a rather avicentric view. Seed eaters looking for the next kill. In particular, I remember this one Chukar situation down South in Tennessee* a while ago. With not a species to spare. .
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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?
10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2011
Why put additional pressure on a recovering species? A hunting season on sandhill cranes vastly increases the chance that collateral kill of endangered whooping cranes will occur. The handful of pairs that are attempting to nest in Ohio appear to winter in Tennessee. We’ve only got 400 on the planet. Quick: what’s this?
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.
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. Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
Sometimes I just want to hug eBird, or more specifically, whoever writes the short species descriptions (even though I am not the typical hugging kind of person, trust me on this). There are about 50 different species of flowerpeckers globally. If these are taken off, the species looks just like Clark Kent. “Dull, me?
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