Second Breeding Season for Some Southbound Migrants

By Corey • October 29, 2009 • 2 comments

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.

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Corey

Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. 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 two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

2 Responses to “Second Breeding Season for Some Southbound Migrants”

Drew Fulton Oct 29th, 2009 at 9:34 am
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!
Will Oct 29th, 2009 at 9:11 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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