Marion County Naturalist Marla Mertz informs KNIA/KRLS News that Friday, May 19 is National Endangered Species Day. It’s a great time to commemorate, find out about, and do something about it to safeguard threatened and threatened types.
May is an active month for all type of birds moving in and out of the location. According to BirdCast (live bird migration projection maps), over 400 million birds were moving into the U.S. previously this month in simply one day. According to Mertz that number has actually decreased to around 25 million around the middle of the month.
Mertz includes, “We had what I call the jungle bird migration. It’s the most colorful song birds that we find. They come from the tropics of South America.”
According to Mertz the noises of Baltimore Orioles are presently showing up in Marion
County, together with the hummingbirds and the various warblers, grosbeaks, buntings, and others.