The Tennessee Ornithological Society (TOS) is an independent

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educational, scientific, and

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organization in

Tennessee Tennessee ( , ), officially the State of Tennessee, is a landlocked state in the Southeastern region of the United States. Tennessee is the 36th-largest by area and the 15th-most populous of the 50 states. It is bordered by Kentucky to th ...

, United States, dedicated to the study and conservation of

bird Birds are a group of warm-blooded vertebrates constituting the class Aves (), characterised by feathers, toothless beaked jaws, the laying of hard-shelled eggs, a high metabolic rate, a four-chambered heart, and a strong yet lightweigh ...

s. It was formed in 1915 and has published a quarterly

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, ''The Migrant'', since 1930. The organization conducts statewide meetings and its local chapters have regular meetings and

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s. The TOS was started by a group of six amateur

ornithologist Ornithology is a branch of zoology that concerns the "methodological study and consequent knowledge of birds with all that relates to them." Several aspects of ornithology differ from related disciplines, due partly to the high visibility and th ...

s who met at Faucon's French Restaurant in

Nashville Nashville is the capital city of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the seat of Davidson County. With a population of 689,447 at the 2020 U.S. census, Nashville is the most populous city in the state, 21st most-populous city in the U.S., and the ...

on October 7, 1915. A

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at the site commemorates the organization's founding. Annual activities of the organization include annual autumn

hawk Hawks are bird of prey, birds of prey of the family Accipitridae. They are widely distributed and are found on all continents except Antarctica. * The subfamily Accipitrinae includes goshawks, sparrowhawks, sharp-shinned hawks and others. Th ...

counts, spring and fall

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s, winter

raptor Raptor or RAPTOR may refer to: Animals The word "raptor" refers to several groups of bird-like dinosaurs which primarily capture and subdue/kill prey with their talons. * Raptor (bird) or bird of prey, a bird that primarily hunts and feeds on v ...

surveys, and annual

Christmas bird count The Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is a census of birds in the Western Hemisphere, performed annually in the early Northern-hemisphere winter by volunteer birdwatchers and administered by the National Audubon Society. The purpose is to provide popu ...

s. The quarterly journal of the Tennessee Ornithological Society, ''The Migrant'', is a repository for

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s and articles related to monitoring the status of Tennessee's bird populations. The organization also published the ''Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Tennessee'' by Charles P. Nicholson (), a compendium on the birds of the state, based on research conducted by TOS members from 1986 through 1991. The atlas includes the first fully documented account of distribution patterns for 170 bird

species In biology, a species is the basic unit of classification and a taxonomic rank of an organism, as well as a unit of biodiversity. A species is often defined as the largest group of organisms in which any two individuals of the appropriate s ...

confirmed as breeding in Tennessee, as well as for several unconfirmed or

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bird species.Atlas of the Breeding Birds of Tennessee
Tennessee Ornithological Society website

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