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Nightjars are medium-sized nocturnal birds that usually nest on the ground. They have long wings, short legs, and very short bills. Most have small feet, of little use for walking, and long pointed wings. Their soft plumage is cryptically colored to resemble bark or leaves. Lesser nighthawk, Chordeiles acutipennis (A) Common nighthawk ...
[7] [12] [13] The gray catbird is a migratory species. Spring migration ranges from March to May, and in the fall ranges from late August to November. [14] The catbird tends to avoid dense, unbroken woodlands, and does not inhabit coniferous, pine woodland. Catbirds prefer a dense vegetative substrate, especially if thorny vegetation is present.
Dauphin Island Park and Beach Board The Audubon Bird Sanctuary is a bird sanctuary on the eastern side of Dauphin Island, Alabama , measuring 164 acres (66 ha). The island is an important stop for many bird migrations , as it is often the first land birds encounter when crossing the Gulf of Mexico .
Some of the refuge's endangered species are the Alabama beach mouse which lives among the sand dunes and sea oats, and green, loggerhead, and Kemp's ridley sea turtles, which nest along the beach. Approximately 400 species of birds have been identified on the refuge, usually during migratory seasons, ranging from ospreys and herons to seven ...
However, a phylogenetic and morphological paper by Irestedt et al. [6] (2015). revealed seven new species, leading to a total of ten distinct species. [6] In the same study, the results confirm that the catbirds are divided into two major clades , a lowland group consisting of the New Guinean white-eared catbird , and a mid-mountain clade ...
Spotted catbirds are a highly specialized rainforest species and in the Australian wet tropics they prefer to nest in well vegetated areas with steep creek slopes and also in forests with Calamus tangles and will nest in the same location year after year. [9] [10] They have a home range of 1-2 hectares and forage about 68 m from their nests. [9]
AUBURN, Ala. (WRBL)—A heated debate has erupted over Hughston Home’s planned removal of a bald eagle’s nest on a property slated for a new subdivision, even as evidence surfaces the eagles ...
New World catbirds are two monotypic genera from the mimid family (Mimidae) of the passeridan superfamily Muscicapoidea. Among the Mimidae, they represent independent basal lineages probably closer to the Caribbean thrasher and trembler assemblage than to the mockingbirds and Toxostoma thrashers: [ 2 ]