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Purple martin photo by Shanthanu Bhardwaj / Wikimedia

Tennessee Birding by Season: Spring

Spring Birds in Tennessee (March, April, May) When March “comes in like a lion” in Tennessee, as it often does, what some bird watchers think of as the most interesting, if not the most exciting, season of the year begins. Spring. Glorious spring. A Carolina wren “teakettling” at the bedroom window before first light is […]

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Purple martin photo by Shanthanu Bhardwaj / Wikimedia

Alabama Birding by Season: Spring

Spring Birds of Alabama (March, April, May) Spring starts early in Alabama and is breathtaking. The azaleas and dogwoods are blooming, and new birds are arriving daily. Spring migration offers some of the best birding opportunities as neotropical migrants flood across the gulf, many making landfall at such hotspots as Dauphin Island and historic Fort

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Yellow-crowned night heron by Maureen Allen

Louisiana Birding by Season: Spring

Spring Birds of Louisiana (March, April, May) The breeding season for year-round residents such as woodpeckers, brown-headed nuthatches, Carolina chickadees, tufted titmice, Carolina wrens, brown thrashers, and northern cardinals begins quite early down at this latitude. Territorial singing is initiated during the middle of February, and young are generally fledged by April, just in time

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Eastern Phoebe (Photo: John Benson/Creative Commons)

Michigan Birding by Season: Spring

Spring Birds of Michigan (March, April, May) March is perhaps the most variable month weather-wise, sometimes being an extension of winter, sometimes heralding the beginning of spring, and usually exhibiting characteristics of both seasons.  The arrival of male red-winged blackbirds by the first week in March, when they begin defending territories, filling the still brown

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