AVMA News

APRIL 11, 2024

The American Association of Swine Veterinarians held its 55th annual meeting from February 24-27 in Nashville, Tennessee. The association presented awards and seated new officials.

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AVMA News

JANUARY 23, 2025

The American Association of Veterinary Laboratory Diagnosticians (AAVLD) held its 67th annual meeting from October 10-16, 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee. The AAVLD presented awards and seated new officials.

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AVMA News

JANUARY 25, 2024

The American Association of Feline Practitioners held a hybrid in-person and virtual annual conference from October 12-15, 2023, in Memphis, Tennessee. The AAFP conducted business and seated some new officials.

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Memphis Tennessee 392

AVMA News

JANUARY 23, 2025

The United States Animal Health Association (USAHA) held its 128th annual meeting from October 10-16, 2024, in Nashville, Tennessee. The USAHA presented awards and seated new officials.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 8, 2011

Northern Waterthrush Parkesia noveboracensis Blackpoll Warbler Setophaga striata Black-throated Green Warbler Setophaga virens Tennessee Warbler Oreothlypis peregrina Palm Warbler Setophaga palmarum Common Yellowthroat Geothlypis trichas Yellow Warbler Setophaga petechia Cape May Warbler Setophaga tigrina Blue-winged Warbler Vermivora cyanoptera (..)

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JANUARY 6, 2012

The more ecotourism dollars earned through the festival the more likely that the Sandhill Crane hunt there will go from tabled for two years to permanently cancelled. The festival is next weekend, 14-15 January, and will be held at Hiwassee Refuge so, who knows, maybe you will get to see the vagrant Hooded Crane as well!

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MAY 21, 2011

Everywhere cranes gather, from New Mexico to Indiana to Tennessee, people come to watch them. One of the interesting statistics that came out of neighboring Tennessee’s crane hunting controversy is that Tennessee has marked an 81% increase in wildlife watchers over the past decade, while its hunters declined 25%. “To

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2011

It wasn’t until well after I returned home that I found the answer: They were winter Tennessee Warblers who’d been feeding in a flowering Combretum tree. Here’s a typical fall Tennessee Warbler –that needle-sharp bill, pale superciliary, and lack of wingbars, tailspots, or streaks of any kind. New species.

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AVMA News

APRIL 30, 2024

Jasmin Paris, a veterinarian from the United Kingdom, made history this spring as the first woman to complete the Barkley Marathons, an ultramarathon at Frozen Head Park in Wartburg, Tennessee.

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United Kingdom Tennessee 195

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2015

My mind was already trying to place it, coming up with Northern Parula (though I saw no real blue), Red-eyed Vireo (though it seemed too small), and Tennessee Warbler (though the lack of a good look at the face made that a tough call). Tennessee Warblers have a thin, dark eye-line and a small, thin, sharply-pointed bill.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2018

This particular land near the Tennessee-Georgia border is critical as a protection for Taylor Branch, a tributary of the Conasauga River. As one of our country’s most biodiverse rivers, this entire habitat is considered ‘high priority’ in the Wildlife Action Plan of the state Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency.

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Georgia Bald Eagle Tennessee 2018 214

10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2012

Peregrine Falcons frequent the sheer rock faces of Tennessee Valley. Searching for Golden Gate Great Horned Owls. Varied Thrush habitat on Mount Tamalpais. Red-tailed Hawks often hunt through dusk in San Francisco. I imagine them beaming through this shortcut too.

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San Francisco Tennessee Falcons Owls 218

10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2014

Tennessee Warbler. Orioles, really, really like oranges. They can’t get enough. Baltimore Oriole. If you ask me, no bird looks more at home with an orange than a male Baltimore. Like peas and carrots. Of all warblers, the humble and adaptable TEWA has the strongest preference for oranges.

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Baltimore Texas Tennessee Abandonment 240

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2013

In particular, I remember this one Chukar situation down South in Tennessee* a while ago. I might have never been to Tennessee and might or might not have made this up for the sake of a story to tell. Until I yell that it should not here roam! So Chattanooga Chukar. won’t you shoo-shoo back home? Chattanooga Chukar.

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Kazakhstan Tennessee North America Pennsylvania 188

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2012

Northern Parula Parula americana Magnolia Warbler Dendroica magnolia Yellow Warbler Dendroica petechia Louisiana Waterthrush Seiurus motacilla Wilson’s Warbler Wilsonia pusilla Blackpoll Warbler Dendroica striata Prairie Warbler Dendroica discolor Black-throated Green Warbler Dendroica virens female Magnolia Warbler Dendroica magnolia Northern (..)

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2021

The golden bird was on a buggy island in a wetland, a spot that also harbored many other wintering warblers including several Tennessees and a busy Worm-eating. A few Golden-wingeds and Black-and-whites also entertained, and we were psyched to catch glimpses of a beautiful, bandit masked, male Hooded.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2013

Another wonderful bird to see from above is the Tennessee Warbler. There were hordes of White-throated Sparrows throughout the park. I like this picture because the yellow supraloral makes me think of headlights. … Trips Central Park Manhattan Tanner''s Spring'

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New York City Nashville Tennessee Sparrows 222

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2020

Despite the cold, I had to take a run at our last migrants this weekend and was rewarded with a lovely morning of lakeshore birding that included an FOY Tennessee Warbler … don’t know how that one got past me all month!

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2019

The same goes for Blackburnian and even Tennessee Warblers. Some Tennessee Warblers also feast on bananas. One of our most abundant wintering species, the Chestnut-sided Warbler has been changing its gnatcatcher-like winter plumage for smart breeding colors.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2020

Niagara Falls State Park, right above the cataracts, is where I used to bike to on May days to see dozens of fantastic chestnut Bay-breasted Warblers whispering from the canopy, American Redstarts and Tennessee Warblers and Nashville Warblers filling the woods with song.

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JULY 7, 2018

I’ve been birding on the Tennessee side of GSM for over thirty years; and Cades Cove is at the top of my easily accessible, ‘private’ habitats. This area, located in the southeastern Tennessee side, is one of the few open spaces in the park. Most visitors arrive by car and take the one-way, 11-mile Loop Road.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2018

Baltimore Orioles are coming to feeders in November and checking out avocado trees (I saw six of them doing just that a few hour ago), Tennessee Warblers are masquerading as Old World warblers in most places, and small flocks of Rose-breasted Grosbeaks are making appearances.

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Costa Rica Baltimore Tennessee Parrots 181

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2011

The handful of pairs that are attempting to nest in Ohio appear to winter in Tennessee. Eastern flyway breeding populations appear to be maxing out their available habitat, and are subject to abundant natural limitations such as ground predation by coyotes, foxes, raccoons and opossums. What if they’re shot?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2021

However, most states still have less than 100 species, including: Missouri (98, unchanged); Wyoming (97, unchanged); Georgia (94, up from 54); Nevada (93, up from 53); Delaware (88, up from 83); Maine (82, up from 76); South Carolina (82, up from 49); Louisiana (81, up from 73); Alaska (79, up from 34); Maryland (62, unchanged); Illinois (50, up from (..)

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2021

Based on birding this very morning from the back of my place in Costa Rica, I can guarantee that at least some Baltimore Orioles, Tennessee Warblers , a Painted Bunting and a few other migrants are still far to the south. Baltimore Oriole- one of the more common wintering birds in Costa Rica.

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AUGUST 23, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a ratty male Tennessee Warbler that was aware of its tattered plumage and kept trying to preen it in presentableness. For example, not a single Caspian Tern showed up while I was hanging around the shore of Lake Ontario.

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JANUARY 2, 2021

Tennessee Warbler is one of my winter birds. It doesn’t mean that various issues and problems have disappeared, but at least a new calendar year is a fine excuse for renewal. In the birding realm, it means a new year list, beginning the year with winter birds, and planning trips for the next 12 months.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

This blog was written by Sherry Turner Teas, a rehabber in Chattanooga, Tennessee: It started out as a normal day for a wildlife rehabilitator here in Tennessee – giving medicine, cleaning cages, and feeding baby birds.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2011

Populations of Blackpolls, along with a handful of other highly boreal warblers like Cape May and Tennessee , tend to ebb and flow depending on outbreaks of Spruce Budworm, a small caterpillar known to be a significant conifer pest, and the birds lay more eggs and have greater nesting sucess in years where the budworms are abundant.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2022

It was quickly followed by wintering, pearly colored Chestnut-sided Warblers , tiny Tennessees , and one smart Black-capped Wilson’s after another. In keeping with October colors, our first warbler of the day was a beautiful male American Redstart. It sallied over a small water catchment area, flashing bright orange on velvet black.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Rocky Fork State Park, Tennessee. The coves are populated with oak, hemlock, poplar, and the area is stream-rich (including a Class V river gorge) with lush understories and shrubs. If you visit later in the year, join Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count. Yellow-rumped Warbler. Photo by © Mike Blevins.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

With the proposed hunting seasons on sandhill cranes being discussed in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin, we must not forget the whooping crane, which travels and winters in the big sandhill crane flocks. photo by Cyndi Routledge Here it is then, another angle on the proposed sandhill crane seasons in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin.

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Critter News

APRIL 18, 2010

According to PCRM, the schools are Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences, and the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, Chattanooga campus. Tags: University of Tennessee animal research Uniformed Services University Johns Hopkins University.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2011

Bald Eagle image is by Francois Portmann and is used with permission You know, I’ve been thinking about this whole dustup over hunting cranes in Tennessee and now Kentucky. And my thinking has come around 180 degrees from where it was. I get it now, I really do. I think it’s time to hunt Sandhill Cranes.

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Bald Eagle Eagles Hunting Kentucky 264

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. The striking Snail Kite? 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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10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2024

At one time six Tennessee Warblers were overwhelming an orange half. Orioles were very abundant with over 40 Baltimore Orioles and smaller numbers of Bullock’s and Orchard. A Blue-winged Warbler hid amongst the retama almost at ground level, while a Wilson’s Warbler poked around higher up.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2011

Just click here to hear a recording of a bird taken in Tennessee. But being beautiful to the ear, echoing a song off of moss-covered logs, now that is where a bird of the forest floor can really stand out and be noticed. Have you never heard a Wood Thrush and want to know what their song sounds like?

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