Second Breeding Season for Some Southbound Migrants
Five North American neotropical migrant passerines have been documented breeding in western Mexico on their southbound migration. It is the first time North American nocturnal migrants have been documented breeding during a migratory stopover. Fascinating.
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their indoor cat, B.B. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
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October 29, 2009 9:11:32 pm
It makes you how many other species may do this as well, and maybe even the chance of some sort of secret nesting going on amongst winter visitors in the Amazon! It would make protecting wintering grounds as paramount as protecting breeding areas.
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I read about this a few days ago and was stunned by the implications. It truly is an amazing adaptation and makes me want to visit the thorn forests of Mexico!