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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Mississippi North Carolina Raleigh Africa 158

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 Mississippi Agenda Rodents 204

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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Louisiana Species Mississippi Alabama 264

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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Wildlife Rehabilitation Tethering Giraffes Alabama 262

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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Florida Mississippi Birds Laws 261

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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Alabama Killing Protection Mississippi 158

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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Mississippi 2013 Birds Experience 158

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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California Condor Mississippi Florida Montana 157

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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Pets Rescue Mississippi Chickens 165

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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Mississippi North America Eggs America 172

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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Bald Eagle Mississippi Eagles Ducks 194

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2013

Similar observation have been made in Cuba and the Yucatan Peninsula in Mexico where up to 47,000 migrating Mississippi Kites are counted every season as they fly south. Birders and raptor observers in south Florida and the Florida Keys report only small number of Swallow-tailed Kites during migration time.

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Florida Cuba Colombia 2004 233

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2013

falcinellus ) in Mississippi © David J. In addition to the spoonbills, which occur on every continent except Antarctica, this group contains the sacred ibises , the noisy East African Hadada Ibis , and the weird and wonderful Waldrapp. White-faced and Glossy ibises ( Plegadis chihi and P.

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Louisiana Mississippi America Pelicans 197

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2014

Since listing, sound science, work towards habitat protection, acquisition and restoration and regulatory reforms its range has expanded north and west, and now includes portions of North Carolina and Mississippi, with significant nesting in Florida, Georgia, South Carolina and North Carolina.

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North Carolina Bald Eagle South Carolina Florida 196

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 27, 2019

The new Lifers are the Rose-breasted Grosbeak, Short-tailed Hawk, Mississippi Kites, Juniper Titmouse and Painted Buntings! There is believed to be a very small breeding population of Mississippi Kites that occupy a small area that borders Pima and Cochise Counties.

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Arizona Tucson Mississippi Nashville 121

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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Costa Rica 2015 Species West Virginia 154

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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Mississippi Minnesota Abandon Abandonment 101

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The species disappeared from the record for several decades afterwards due to the war and all, but it popped up again in the mid-1880′s where it was reported to occur in decent numbers across much of the southeast all the way west to the Mississippi bottomlands of southeast Missouri’s bootheel. Mississippi in 1949.

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South Carolina Cuba Missouri Mississippi 178

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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Animal Legal Defense Fund Animal Protection North Dakota Protection 100

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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Costa Rica Birds Mississippi Woodpeckers 252

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2011

My own best bird was Caspian Tern , right on time along Lake Ontario.

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2011 Mississippi ALA Sparrows 157

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2012

If you’re lucky, you’ll see some serene kites like the Mississippi Kites Nate encountered !) Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend ! Keep your eyes to the skies for fabulous raptors. (If

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2012 Mississippi Birds 154

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2015

This common bird is also the state bird for Arkansas, Texas (another avian hot spot), Tennessee, and Mississippi, so Florida even misses points for originality. Florida went with the Northern Mockingbird , found in all lower 48 states. Okay, it’s true, Northern Mockingbirds are fascinating birds.

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Florida Arkansas Legislature Mississippi 166

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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West Virginia United States Puerto Rico Minnesota 198

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2014

Some abbreviations roll off your tongue and are thus quite helpful – Mourning Doves are MODOs, Peregrine Falcons are PEFAs, Mississippi Kites are MIKIs. So if you’re really busy, instead of slamming down the phone and growling, “This is the fourth fledgling Mourning Dove this week,” you can simply say, “Incoming modo.”.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Mice Vet 232

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Researchers observing (live) Mississippi Kites provide very useful information on the timing, paths, and correlation with fronts that I use when releasing my kites. Researchers studying (live) Hummingbirds discovered their diet consists of a large percentage of protein from insects; I use that information for my rehab diets.

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Collecting Wildlife Rehabilitation Solomon Islands Texas 240

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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North Carolina Mississippi Charlotte 2016 101

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2012

When mid-April rolls around, Mississippi Kites swarm through the area in jaw-dropping numbers, and unlike the other migrant raptors, tend to move in a single mass… when one bird flies northeast, the entire flock does, instead of breaking off piecemeal one at a time.

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San Diego Mississippi Mexico Malaysia 155

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2011

She lived on a stretch of the Mississippi River near a power plant that keeps the river open all winter long (even when it’s below zero). And generally the people who do this have become such media sensations that once someone brings up the point that it should be stopped, it’s too late.

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Bald Eagle Deer Minnesota 2000 245

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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South Dakota Humane North Dakota Idaho 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

You find them in the south from Florida to Texas and down into Mexico, occasionally as far north as the Carolinas in the east and up the Mississippi River as far north as Illinois. It is one of several species in the Mallard -complex of ducks, along with American Black Duck , Mexican Duck , and quite a few others.

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Ducks Illinois Florida Mississippi 166

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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Sea Turtles Turtles Marine Life Mississippi 100

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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Animal Legal Defense Fund Animal Protection South Dakota ALDF 100

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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Mississippi Kentucky Tennessee Arkansas 116

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2013

I have missed two Swallow-tailed Kites and a Mississippi Kite in the last couple of years (All were single-observer birds that did not stick around.). There are two shorebirds that occur at least annually in Queens that I have not yet checked off my Queens list and shorebird season is pretty much here. Could a kite show up in Queens?

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Pelicans Mississippi Virginia Game 158

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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Marine Life Sea Turtles Animal Dolphins 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

For obvious reasons, Titmice (either Tufted or Black-crested ) are the subject of great hilarity (thank God we don’t live where there are Great T**s ).

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Turtles Turkey Rodents 214