News

Thursday December 25, 2025 ~~~~~Christmas Day

Wednesday December 24, 2025 ~~~ Christmas Eve

Monday, December 8, 2025: eBird Mobile Updates: Minor bug fixes and performance improvements. Version 3.6.0.

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December eBird challenge: Submit 50 or more rated photos or audio recordings on eligible checklists. Your photos and audio helps eBird when you submit data.

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On a cold winter’s night try out from Merriam-Webster site and Ranker: Reads related to birds:

“The best bird sports teams”

https://www.ranker.com/list/best-bird-sports-teams/ranker-sports

“9 Superb Owl Words”

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/9-superb-owl-words

“Bird Names that sound like compliments” – link below.

https://www.merriam-webster.com/wordplay/bird-names-that-sound-like-compliments

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Friday, November 28 2025 Native American Heritage Day

Thursday, November 27 2025 Thanksgiving Day

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Wednesday, November 26, 2025: Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab mobile Update: 3.7.5: Performance fixes for Explore. Bug fixes and fixes for taxonomy update process. New Species in Sound ID. 342 new species across South America, India, Taiwan, Australia, and more.

Friday, November 21, 2025: eBird Mobile Updates: 2025 Taxonomy update. Bug fixes and performance improvements. Version 3.5.0 is available to download!!

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Thursday, November 20, 2025: Melissa’s Newsletter below.

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Looking for interesting birding hotspots? Check out the eBird mobile app. Press Explore >right top>brings up Radius, distance in miles, enter county interested in, then “done”. Press the “search hotspots in this area” box which brings up hotspots in the area. Select a hotspot>Map shows location with choice of street map or aerial map. Additional data is “Details” which is what birds were seen in this location plus “Directions” which gives you driving directions to the selected hotspot. You can also Search by bird species.

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November 11, 2025 Honor our Veterans. Veterans Day.

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Play it safe. Wear orange while going into and birding at Wildlife Management Areas. It is hunting season.

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Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab Update available: 3.7.4. Bug fixes, taxonomy update, new species sound ID adds 342 new species across South American, India, Taiwan, Australia.

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Sunday, November 2, 2025 set clocks back 1 hour. Remember to change camera settings.

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November 1, 2025 Project Feederwatch begins. Visit FeederWatch.org

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October 31, 2025: Check out https://birdinghotspots.org/region/US-TN Birdinghotspots.org. Use their https://birdinghotspots.org/contact Contact form to help add suggestions to the website. Tennessee Regional reviewers are: Avery Fish, Christine Bass, Tim Lenz, and Mark Greene.

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October 29, 2025: NEW Version 3.7.2 of Merlin Bird ID by Cornell Lab. If you update your mobile Merlin Bird ID app through the app store or your google play store, the new feature is: On the home page, there will be a number below your “Bird of the Day”. That number denotes how many Merlin users are currently (in real time!!) listening to birds across the globe. Amazing!

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Tennessee Announces Reintroduction of Red-Cockaded Woodpecker Through Partnership with TWRA, TDEC, & USFWS

https://www.tn.gov/twra/news/2025/10/22/reintroduction-of-red-cockaded-woodpecker.html

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A new Tennessee State Park: Head of the Crow State Park in Franklin County, Tennessee. Headwaters of Crow Creek. https://tnstateparks.com/parks/head-of-the-crow

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