State Birds and Global Warming - National Wildlife Federation


Birds and Global Warming

Birds & Global Warming

State Birds

Migratory Birds

Ducks and Other Waterfowl

Help Birds Affected by Global Warming

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Missouri species impacted by Global Warming

Eastern Bluebird
(Sialia sialis)

State bird of Missouri and New York

Photo © Sharon Cummings

Learn more about this bird at eNature.com

The Eastern bluebird is not in danger of disappearing from Missouri or New York.

Description
7" (17 cm). Bright blue above and on wings and tail; rusty throat and breast; white belly and undertail coverts. Female similar, but duller.

Voice
Call a liquid and musical turee or queedle. Song a soft melodious warble.

Habitat
Open woodlands and farmlands with scattered trees.

See birds in your state with populations that are:

Acadian Flycatcher
American Redstart
Baltimore Oriole
Bank Swallow
Black-capped Chickadee
Bobolink
Carolina Chickadee
Cerulean Warbler
Chestnut-sided Warbler
Chipping Sparrow
Grasshopper Sparrow
Gray Catbird
Hooded Warbler
House Wren
Indigo Bunting
Kentucky Warbler
Least Flycatcher
Ovenbird
Pine Siskin
Prairie Warbler
Red-eyed Vireo
Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Savannah Sparrow
Scarlet Tanager
Sedge Wren
Song Sparrow
Summer Tanager
Tree Swallow
Vesper Sparrow
Warbling Vireo
Willow Flycatcher
Yellow Warbler
Yellow-headed Blackbird
Yellow-throated Vireo
American Goldfinch

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The background information for this presentation comes from The Birdwatcher's Guide to Global Warming, which was prepared by Jeff Price, Ph.D., American Bird Conservancy and Patricia Glick, M.S., National Wildlife Federation.

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