For her and Fitz, the
Kirtland's warbler is a symbol of new growth after devastation, and the rare blue whale is able to communicate with another blue whale across a great distance.
Fish and Wildlife Service proposed the removal of the
Kirtland's warbler from the endangered species list due to its remarkable recovery.
Using the rare
Kirtland's warbler as a model, his article examines how ground conditions in a bird's wintering habitat can affect the success (or not) of its migration journey and subsequent breeding efforts.
Another remarkable recovery story, and one of the most dramatic successes to emerge from the Class of '67, is that of the
Kirtland's warbler (Setophaga kirtlandii), a songbird that winters in the Bahamas and spends spring and summer months primarily in Michigan's northeastern Lower Peninsula.
The innovation will be amazing, hopefully enabling us to find where our rarest songbird, the
Kirtland's warbler, mysteriously goes for the winter, for example.
In the
Kirtland's warbler wildlife management area in northern Michigan, the primary tree is the jack pine, a fire-adapted species that burns easily; the pine cones "melt" open, releasing seeds into the ashes below and ensuring the seedlings of plenty of nutrients and not much competition.
This paper focuses on recent efforts in the Bahamian wintering grounds of the
Kirtland's Warbler (Dendroica kirtlandii), a federally listed species in the United States and Canada, to fill gaps needed to develop a comprehensive range-wide conservation program for this species.
Board 15 TEMPORAL PATTERNS OF
KIRTLAND'S WARBLER (DENDROICA KIRTLANDII) OCCUPANCY OF JACK PINE (PINUS BANKSIANA) IN THE HURON NATIONAL FOREST, NORTHERN LOWER MICHIGAN.
Those with narrow habitat requirements, like the jackpine-dwelling
Kirtland's warbler and other warblers tied to Eastern montane Spruce and fir forests, would bear the brunt of the disruption as their habitat trees die out.
Given all the recent attention paid to the possible deleterious effects of Brown-headed Cowbird parasitism on certain vulnerable host species (e.g., Willow Flycatcher,
Kirtland's Warbler, Black-capped Vireo) and the heavy impact of the spread of the Shiny Cowbird throughout the West Indies and even to mainland North America, I was surprised to find little mention of the conservation implications of host parasitism.
For instance,
Kirtland's warbler nests nowhere else in the world but in the jack pine forests in a region of north central Michigan that is about 60 miles by 100 miles wide.
I am more important than a
Kirtland's warbler. Don't even think about it.