Where Do Birds That Leave Maryland For The Winter Go? - The BayNet

Where Do Birds That Leave Maryland For The Winter Go? - The BayNet

Baltimore orioles can be found throughout much of Maryland in the summer months. In the winter, Baltimore orioles fly as far south as Venezuela. Photo by Jeff Dyke, submitted for the 2018 Maryland DNR photo contest.ANNAPOLIS, Md. – In recent summers on Maryland’s “tern raft,” a man-made conservation platform that serves as habitat for state-endangered colonial nesting waterbirds, scientists found a common tern with a distinctive orange tag on it…

Where Do Birds That Leave Maryland for the Winter Go?

By Joe Zimmermann, science writer with the Maryland Department of Natural Resources: In recent summers on Maryland’s “tern raft,” a man-made conservation platform that serves as habitat for state-endangered colonial nesting waterbirds, scientists found a common tern with a distinctive orange tag on its leg. The tag indicated that Argentinian researchers had banded the tern in the winter at Punta Rasa, a coastal area just south of Buenos Aires. T…