Rare birds can get blown off their flight course by cold fronts or other weather patterns, too, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency wildlife specialist Mime Barnes told McClatchy News. The agency ...

He said he works as a taxidermist in east Tennessee and will mount the bird himself to commemorate the hunt. “Bird of a lifetime!” one commenter said on the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency post.

She first spotted the rare bird in early December at her backyard bird feeder in Harriman, Tennessee. She snapped a quick, grainy cell phone photo to capture the sighting. "I took the picture to ...

Routledge, secretary of the Tennessee Ornithological Society ... making it a first sighting of the rare bird in the Southeast. As word spread among birders of the ancient murrelet’s arrival ...