Bird Atlas Blog
When Fledglings Become Juveniles
[caption id="attachment_769" align="aligncenter" width="640"] Black-capped Chickadee Poecile atricapillus Doug Hitchcox[/caption] July is a great month for atlasing Adults can easily be seen carrying food, baby birds are chasing their parents around begging for meals, there are even some birds working on a second (or third) brood already.
Birding for Bruce
By Doug Hitchcox Fellow birders, I am asking you to participate in a very specialevent this week. As many of you mayalready know, Bruce Barker has beenfighting a tough battle against a rare and very aggressive cancer.Sadly, treatmentshave been unsuccessful and he is currently in home hospice and not able to havevisitors.
What's the deal with Chukars in Maine?
By Doug Hitchcox Depending on where you live, you may have the fortune of encountering a medium-sized game bird called Chukar. Youll recognize this bird from their inclusion in many North American field guides, though they are not a native species. Chukars, pronounced chuh-kahr, are an introduced species, originating from mountains of middle Eurasia, now common around the western United States Great Basin north into western Canada.
Atlasing in April
By Doug Hithcox As we head through April the window opens for a new group of early nesting species in Maine. This post highlights most of the species that have safe dates beginning in April. Dont forget to keep looking for breeding activity from species that started breeding in March, including: Great Horned Owls, Bald Eagles, Rock Pigeons, House Sparrows, and Peregrine Falcons.
Black-capped Chronicle, Issue 1: Welcome to the Maine Bird Atlas
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What is the Maine Bird Atlas?
Bird Atlases have been conducted worldwide with the aim of mapping the distribution, and often abundance, of species over a large geographic area and for a fixed amount of time. They follow a standardized methodology and are intended to be repeated at 20-year intervals. In North America, many states and provinces conducted first generation breeding bird atlases that collected comprehensive distribution information on breeding birds in their defined region.
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