10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2018

This is the Mississippi Kite, which used to live all up and down the Mississippi, even way up to the source at Itasca. Anybody out there know why the Mississippi Kite has abandoned most of the Mississippi? The Mississippi Kite. The Mississippi Kite. But not any more. Here are a bunch of the blue birds.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2018

Mississippi Kite. Super Hot-spot: Hawk Ridge, Duluth, MN – Mississippi Flyway. Super Hot-spot: Hawk Ridge, Duluth, MN – Mississippi Flyway. The STK families will be departing the panhandle of Florida, with flights possibly hugging the Gulf coastline. Photo by © Mike Blevins. Super Hot-spot: Corpus Christi, TX – Central Flyway.

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Critter News

JANUARY 3, 2011

New Jersey Illinois Massachusetts Colorado Maine WORST STATES Ohio Hawaii Alabama North Dakota Mississippi Idaho South Dakota (worst) According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the states fell this way. BEST Illinois (best) Maine Michigan Oregon California WORST Mississippi Idaho Hawaii North Dakota Kentucky.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2015

Starting this week, my guest bloggers are going to tell theirs – which will be really fun, because not only are they great rehabbers, but they live all over the country and take in all different types of birds (like the Mississippi Kite , left).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

And it’s true, I know that the Pied-billed Grebes show up around the same time the Mississippi Kites leave, because I make a note of both and it sticks in my memory. As we kept paddling, I continued, “It helps me remember when birds come and when they leave. Otherwise I would never remember.”

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10,000 Birds

MAY 4, 2021

With two of North America’s major flyways, Mississippi and Central, overhead, and with almost 400 miles of coastline Louisiana is one of those states where you can see Eastern and Western birds and a hell of a lot of shorebirds and waterfowl. Louisiana is a magical place to bird. And there are the birds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2021

In Mississippi you can own an ocelot, but not a wolverine. For instance, you can own a lion in Alabama, but not in California. You can own a gorilla in Indiana, but not a bear in Michigan. You can own a yak in Kentucky, but not a cheetah in Maine.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

We slipped Noah into the baby backpack and covered him with a mosquito net, noting a pair of Mississippi Kites swirling in the hazy sky overhead. The grassy parking lot held only two other cars, so we basically had the area all to ourselves.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The five subspecies – Greater, Lesser, Mississippi, Florida, Cuban – show the genetic marks of what the species has had to do to survive. Featured image: a Mississippi Sandhill Crane egg begins to hatch, courtesy of the U.S. I’ve never seen a crane dance. Advance, retreat, migrate, stay sedentary, separate, rejoin.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2014

The Cuban Sandhill Crane , Grus canadensis nesiotes and the Mississippi Sandhill Crane , Grus canadensis pulla are listed as endangered species. This is a photo of a Mississippi Sandhill Crane colt being weighed at White Oak Conservation, photo courtesy of Wikipedia Commons.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2021

A few states still have no checklists at all: Nebraska , Minnesota , Iowa , Kentucky , West Virginia , Mississippi , and Alabama. The Collective added six new states in the past three years, but none have eclipsed the century mark: Wisconsin ( 74 ), Utah (55), Hawaii (38), Oklahoma (18), Rhode Island (9), and Connecticut (5).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2018

Several parks enjoy the benefits of close proximity to the mighty Mississippi River. Check HERE to find a Tennessee state park near you, and let’s change ‘black’ Friday into ‘bird’ Friday! Western TN state parks. Bald Eagle. Photo by © Mike Kendrick. Middle TN state parks. Downy Woodpecker. Photo by © Mike Blevins.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 15, 2012

But the default kite for this part of the country, as well as parts of the southern plains as well, is the Mississippi Kite , Ictinia mississippiensis , unparallelled aerial acrobat and merciless devourer of katydids. This is a bird that does not mess around.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2016

Swallow-tailed Kites, and their equally graceful but less ostentatious cousins from Mississippi, have been found in at least a half-dozen fields in North Carolina in the last couple weeks, including a field not more than an hour from my home. There was a pair of Mississippi Kites hanging around as well.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2019

But Audubon adds, “Some go up the Mississippi for four or five hundred miles, but I have not seen any higher on that stream, which they generally leave to return to the vicinity of the sea-shore in the winter season.”.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2010

Ohio, Mississippi, North Dakota, Idaho and South Dakota are at the bottom. It's their first annual "humane state" report. California and New Jersey came out on top.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2022

In order to create his dramatic, masterly paintings, eventually reproduced and issued under the title The Birds of America, Audubon traveled, at various points in the first part of the nineteenth century, across Pennsylvania and down the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers to Louisiana; along the Atlantic Coast from Charleston, South Carolina to the Florida (..)

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Critter News

MAY 3, 2010

According to this article, "at least 25 sea turtles have washed up dead on Mississippi beaches over the past few days, according to multiple media reports. So far, there is no evidence that the oil spill killed the turtles, but tests are ongoing." The web page also has a video.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2014

From its core range in the southwest US and northern Mexico, it has staged a pretty dramatic range expansion in the last couple decades, spreading nearly as far east as the Mississippi River. This plus Mississippi Kite, another recent arrival from the southwest, put me up two on this one.

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Missouri Birds Species Mississippi 102

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2016

As reported by the fine folks at The Dodo , after Hurricane Katrina forced Katrina “Kasia” Perkowska to evacuate, she started bringing her pet Wood Duck , Scooter, to her mother-in-law’s nursing home in Mississippi.

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Critter News

MAY 11, 2010

Seems odd, although officials with the Mississippi Department of Environmental Quality said that fish they've tested have not been killed by oil, but a lack of oxygen in the water. But so far, it looks like the oil spill is not to blame. But why did 60 dead endangered turtles wash up over three weeks? And what about the dead dolphin?

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2013

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a Mississippi Kite , though 17-year cicadas came a close second. The bird I was happiest to see this weekend was Eastern Kingbird , a flycatcher that screams summer to me (awesome photo above by Carlos Sanchez ). How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Critter News

DECEMBER 26, 2008

And the worst: Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arkansas, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Iowa, Kentucky, Mississippi, Montana, New Jersey, New Mexico, North Carolina, North Dakota, Northern Mariana Islands, South Dakota, Wyoming You can check out the whole report on their web site. Among the best: California, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Oregon.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

Their are two separate subspecies of the Nashville Warbler , one occurs east of the Mississippi River ( Oreothlypis ruficapilla ruficapilla ) and the other, pictured here, formerly called the Calaveras Warbler ( Oreothlypis ruficapilla ridgwayi ) in northwestern United States and adjacent Canada. Click on photos for full sized images.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2020

As the only breeding hummingbird east of the Mississippi River in the North America, could they have helped pollinate the apple trees of Neversink Spirits? Ruby-throated Hummingbirds are important pollinators (depicted here by John James Audubon).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2014

There are two Painted Bunting populations, one that breeds along the Atlantic Coast from North Carolina to Florida and one that breeds in the interior United States and northern Mexico from southeastern New Mexico to western Mississippi. You can see the two disjunct populations mapped in this animated occurrence model from eBird.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2017

” Meanwhile, Ryan Zinke, the newly appointed Secretary of the Interior announced that the Department will offer 73 million acres offshore Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida for oil and gas exploration and development.

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Reddit Animals

JUNE 28, 2021

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Critter News

OCTOBER 13, 2009

This kid is a biochem major at the University of Southern Mississippi. He's helping to investigate possible drug cures for obesity. Listen to this. Freeman says that the most difficult thing he has encountered so far in his research comes not from the lab, but from people’s attitudes about animal testing.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2016

Birds in the 24 states east of the Mississippi River are now protected from mass culls by a recent court ruling. It’s a good day to be a Double-crested Cormorant —at least for those living in the eastern United States. The cormorants have long been targeted by those who fish—or who raise fish on farms—for depleting fish stocks. So the U.S.

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Culling Fish Wildlife Mississippi 40

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2015

With regular birding in the right places, the most likely additions will be White-tailed Hawk, Pearl Kite, Mississippi Kite, Bicolored Hawk, and Black Hawk-Eagle (should have had that one already!). A kettle of Mississippi Kites from last year. I hope I see them again soon.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2014

I work part-time for the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area and here are some stunning views of our very urban park along the Mississippi River through the Twin Cities in Minnesota: This video is not only remarkable for the views, but also the places they take the small drone–behind waterfalls, are you kidding me?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2020

Some of the sweet species there can include flyby Great Green Macaws among other parrot and parakeet species, toucans, various woodpeckers, flocks of migrating Mississippi Kites and other species.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

My daughter and I were exploring our yard the other day, which presented the perfect opportunity to introduce her to one of the coolest, cuddliest caterpillars of all… The wonderful Woolly Bear Caterpillar ( Pyrrharctia isabella ) is a common sight once October rolls around in temperate regions of the United States east of the Mississippi.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2019

My profile page identifies the states that I have not eBirded, including Nebraska, North Dakota, Michigan, Mississippi, and Vermont. I don’t think I have added any new species, but I did add Alaska, Kansas, and Oklahoma to the group state list. Ten years seems like a good time to look forward as well.

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Birds Bald Eagle Puerto Rico Species 89

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 18, 2012

” He faces up to seven-and-a-half years in prison and fines totaling more than $500,000.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2012

Today, the species has all but disappeared east of the Mississippi River and has declined in western parts of its range, most likely caused by the expansion of the House Wren which destroys and removes their eggs from nest sites 1. A century ago, the Bewick’s Wren was beloved as the “house wren” of the Appalachians and the Midwest.

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