National Zoological Park: The Rusty Blackbird Blitz


Photo credit: nationalzoo.si.edu


Last year, birders throughout the country scoured the countryside for wintering rusty blackbirds to help us understand their distribution and find important local concentrations (hotspots). We learned a lot - see the 2009 blitz results. But there is much more to learn. We want to blitz for several years to both locate more hotspots and determine how stable the already discovered hot spots are from year to year. Already, the information gained is being used to implement research and conservation efforts! With your help The "Return of the Rusty Blackbird Blitz" will be bigger and better than the original.
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Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 2/2/2010 7:00 AM
Categories: Birds
Tags: rusty blackbird smithsonian hotspots distributions conservation
 

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