10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 2, 2013
Here’s hoping that they find the food they need and survive the winter to return north to breed. Here in New York State Snowy Owls have been reported in more than ten counties, with most of those counties having birds being seen in multiple locations.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 28, 2015
In addition to North Carolina, six other states have named the cardinal their state bird, including Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Virginia, West Virginia, and Ohio. For birders who love cardinals there’s good news: since 1966 their populations have been growing every year, with an estimated breeding population of 120 million.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2013
One has been seen in New Jersey in 1988 , in Illinois in 1949, and in Ohio in 1954 (Links are PDFs.) – interestingly, all in May.). Though the Large-billed Tern is a bird of freshwater rivers, lakes, and marshes of South America it does wander to North America on very rare occasions.
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.
10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2017
In order for introduced birds to become countable in the high-stakes world of official bird-counting, they must establish a self-sustaining breeding population (think everybody’s favorites, the European Starling and the House Sparrow ). Over time, Pearson’s prediction proved accurate.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 11, 2013
Maria and I, first-year graduate students in Zac Cheviron’s lab at the University of Illinois, Urbana-. Juncos breed in much of the U.S. My labmate Maria Stager and I have entered a contest for a $10,000 research grant from Endnote. To win, we need your votes! A junco thermoregulating in a snow bank.
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. Did it nest in some remnant riparian zone in the west or did it swoop between forest patches in southern Illinois? If I could put some tent caterpillars out there in the backyard, I would!
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