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 259

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

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

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 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 156

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

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 195

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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Bald Eagle Louisville Pennsylvania Haiti 147

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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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

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 162

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 201

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

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 157

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

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 Mississippi United States Fish 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 250

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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New York Connecticut Mississippi North America 161

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

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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Bears Tigers Litter Mississippi 248

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2018

Like most regional bird guides, the Mississippi River is the line of demarcation. Birds of Prey of the East covers species that reside or migrate east of the Mississippi River and east of Manitoba and the west shore of Hudson Bay in Canada, and eastward across the Arctic islands to Greenland. Structure & Organization.

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North America Mississippi Bald Eagle Falcons 189

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

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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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

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

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 194

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2016

The Mississippi River also boasted great birding opportunities. Northern Mockingbirds watched us from the limbs of giant Live Oaks, and Downy Woodpeckers looked for insects along the rough trunks. Clearly House Sparrows are common here too, as a graffiti outline was painted near the famous Magazine Street! Bird graffiti near Magazine St.

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Austin Mississippi Parrots United States 100

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

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 195

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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Puerto Rico Virgin Islands Michigan Washington 145

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

There are a lot in the Mississippi Flyway these days. Only several dozen of these swans wintered in the region (the region being, approximately, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming) and for some reason they were almost all at this river in this year, and on this day, they were right there in view. Canada has more than the US.

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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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South Dakota Humane North Dakota Idaho 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Some states have no species at all, not even a pigeon, crow, or sparrow: Hawaii , Utah , Nebraska , Oklahoma , Minnesota , Iowa , Wisconsin , Kentucky , West Virginia , Mississippi , Alabama , Connecticut , and Rhode Island. Even the nation’s capital has been ignored.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2012

Vicksburg National Military Park, MS – The capture of the city of Vicksburg in 1863 gave the Union army unfettered control of the Mississippi River, cutting the Confederacy in half. Scotts Bluff birders found nine species, including Townsend’s Solitaire , Black-billed Magpie , Prairie Falcon , and count week Gray-crowned Rosy-finches.

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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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Sea Turtles Turtles Marine Life Mississippi 100

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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