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JUNE 9, 2020

Its eastern border is Lake Michigan, one of the largest freshwater lakes in the world. We also observed spatial patterns in bird observations across neighborhoods, with fewer observations in low-income community areas and those with less open space, as well as those farther from Lake Michigan.

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AUGUST 9, 2013

Out of over 30 respondents, almost everyone wanted money for better facilities, paid staff, on-call veterinarians, emergency vehicles, food, and protected land – from Terry and Lindsay in California to Cindy in Michigan, from Sally in Kentucky to Mickie in South Dakota, and Lisa and Lia in New York. wrote Laura, on Long Island.

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JANUARY 16, 2013

Even though it doesn’t show on the NatureServe range map above, Golden-crowned Sparrow vagrants have been recorded eastward to Ontario and Nova Scotia, Michigan, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey; also south to Alabama, Texas, Louisiana and Florida 1.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

We were driving up to northwestern Michigan from our homes in Ohio (me) and West ByGod Virginia (Geoff) in search of a bird species that would be a lifer for both of us: the Bohemian Waxwing. Tags: Bird Behavior , buntings , features , michigan • Camping tents - Check out our pop up tents , family tents , and more! Snow Bunting?

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MAY 11, 2013

Finally, identifying gulls can be tricky, but there’s one in Michigan that seems to have everyone stumped. You can keep up with the latest on this case through the Michigan Birding Network.). (The story includes a link to the tracking site so you can see where the birds are now!). That’s because it’s pink !

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MARCH 10, 2015

But apparently Fred was not alone because over the last three years quite a few people from Michigan, Ontario, Indiana, Iowa, and Nebraska have chimed in to say that they too, grew up stamping robins and some mentioned passing it on to their children and grandchildren.

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SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Their were 1,805 pairs of Kirtland’s Warblers found in Michigan this year, second only to 2009′s 1,813. The population has stabilized with neither increases nor decreases of greater than five percent since 2007. A couple dozen pairs also nest in neighboring states and provinces.

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AUGUST 2, 2012

Sunsets over Lake Michigan are phenomenal! Share your plans in the comments below. Whatever your plans this weekend, make time to enjoy SkyWatch Friday. Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend !

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JULY 26, 2012

This weekend, I’m heading out to Michigan for a week of sand and sun. Summer months mean a lot to me, which must explain why I’m always on the run these days. Have you been watching the sun set in strange skies? You should.

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AUGUST 5, 2012

My Best Bird(s) of the Weekend were a trio of cranes, presumably Sandhills , crossing high above the interstate as I drove out of Michigan. .” But is it ever too hot or too cold to get out and look at some birds? Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was his second Purple Martin ever in Queens.

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New York City Michigan 2012 New York 195

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APRIL 9, 2011

I love my new WeWood watch , a sustainable yet stylish timepiece made of maple, and I like WeWood even more now that I’ve learned about the 4,000 trees they helped place into American Forest’s Kirtland’s Warbler Habitat Creation Project in Michigan.

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Michigan 160

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JUNE 13, 2021

You can own a gorilla in Indiana, but not a bear in Michigan. One’s ability to own an exotic species varies from state to state. For instance, you can own a lion in Alabama, but not in California. You can own a yak in Kentucky, but not a cheetah in Maine. In Mississippi you can own an ocelot, but not a wolverine.

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DECEMBER 23, 2019

There’s the first meaningful trip away from the west coast: a checklist from City Park in New Orleans that added 10 new birds during a trip to see Michigan play in (and win) the Sugar Bowl. My profile page identifies the states that I have not eBirded, including Nebraska, North Dakota, Michigan, Mississippi, and Vermont. John and St.

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Critter News

MARCH 19, 2010

It's a flurry of activity out there in the animal research fight! This one involves PETA and Saginaw Valley State University.

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PETA Michigan Animal Research Research 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2012

Watch out for Wild Turkeys going wild in western Michigan! It seems that they have taken to crashing through windows and windshields. Though, as the news report points out, it is likely just because it is their breeding season and the hormones are getting to them… a.

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MAY 20, 2023

The best place to see a Kirtland’s Warbler in the United States is in the state of Michigan. The Kirtland’s Warbler is an endangered bird species that breeds primarily in the jack pine forests of northern Michigan. They return to Michigan for nesting during the summer months.

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JULY 11, 2011

But in Oak Park, Michigan, it is apparently a crime to have a vegetable garden in your front yard. Julie Bass should be lauded and should not be facing jail time. Where are the Tea Partiers? Or does freedom not apply to vegetable gardens?

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Michigan 154

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JULY 29, 2012

My family and I have taken our show to the eastern shore of Lake Michigan. The month of July is drawing to a close, so prepare yourself for the inevitable chorus expressing surprise, chagrin, and dismay at the imminent end of summer. Do folks on the southern side of the globe, I wonder, do the same thing around the end of January?

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DECEMBER 14, 2021

There are several states with 100-199 species: North Carolina (172, unchanged), Washington (171, up from 144), Michigan (159, unchanged), Virginia (147, up from 122), North Dakota (141, unchanged), Idaho (129, up from 57); New Mexico (112, unchanged); Massachusetts (110, up from 81); Colorado (106, unchanged), and Pennsylvania (109, up from 102).

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DECEMBER 28, 2019

In addition to spotting exciting new species in Florida, including the rare Snail Kite, travel across the country brought me into contact with birds in Oregon, California, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Alabama, and more.

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AUGUST 19, 2011

They are also found in the mountainous interior west as far south as Arizona and New Mexico, as well as in the far northern reaches of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New York, and New England.

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JANUARY 25, 2019

Focusing on an often under-appreciated portion of the continent, the book showcases forty species found in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa, Indiana, Michigan, and Ohio – but perhaps not for long.

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MARCH 8, 2017

The jack pines of Michigan are well-known as the breeding grounds of the Kirkland’s Warbler —and thus, the best place to catch a glimpse of this exceedingly rare songbird. Eastern seaboard, and up to Michigan. Photo of Kirkland’s Warbler in Michigan by Jeol Trick, U.S. But how do these tiny birds get there?

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MARCH 1, 2014

A Whooper Swan conservation project keeps a small wildfowl collection, which includes the Wood Ducks, but free food during cold spells attracts “freeloaders” from Lake Michigan and the zoo end up providing winter fuel for hundreds of Mallards.

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JUNE 24, 2022

of Comstock, Michigan. Sure, there’s been an admirable resurgence of lager brewing in the last few years, but it’s hard to shake the feeling that as far as craft beer goes, there’s been an overwhelming tendency toward the hoppy monotony of hazy IPAs – along with a handful of other fads – for the better part of a decade now.

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Michigan 2017 Birds 147

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JANUARY 28, 2015

During the 1980s, the Pacific Coast Population swans became the source of eggs for several restoration programs in Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Iowa 2.

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North America Iowa Wisconsin Michigan 199

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JULY 19, 2015

If you’re a regular reader of 10,000 Birds, you may remember a remarkable video posted some months back of a Great Horned Owl swimming in Lake Michigan. The amiable nature photographer who preserved this special moment was Steve Spitzer, well known in Chicago’s birding community for taking spectacular pictures of even the most common birds.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

But I did have what comes close to qualifying as a Proustian moment in finding this week’s featured beer: 313 Polish Lager from Grand River Brewery of Detroit, Michigan. Today, I can’t even recall the last time I had a Zywiec.

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Poland Detroit New York City Eagles 200

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APRIL 10, 2018

In particular, Michigan was gray, indicating complete failure to submit even a single checklist. But I had spent years in Ann Arbor attending law school at the University of Michigan, albeit before I started birding. If you are tracking your life list, that’s not a difficult sell for the folks running eBird from Ithaca, New York.

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District of Columbia Puerto Rico Michigan North Dakota 124

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2011

The poem is placed in Chicago by the use of “Lincoln park&# which is both a neighborhood and a park on Chicago’s Lake Michigan shoreline. Sandburg obviously appreciates the martins’ flying skills, the “ciphers and figure eights&# of the “purple tumblers&# in the air overhead.

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JULY 12, 2019

of Birmingham Michigan have released Piping Plover Pilsner. Hermit Thrush Brewery: Po Tweet. Three out of five feathers (Good). Birds and Booze News. Piping Plover Pilsner: The Detroit Zoological Society and Griffin Claw Brewing Co.

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APRIL 18, 2021

A pinky mouse…a day or two old… in a dishwasher box,” wrote Cindy Sobels Sniecinski in Michigan. “But there was a reason – the people found it in a lake, floating on the watermelon.” “A The lady didn’t want it to get out.” ” When it comes to wildlife rescue, transportation runs the gamut as well.

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AUGUST 19, 2015

To the west, there is 169 that run up through Grand Rapids (not the one in Michigan) and cabins up there. For example, I-35 is linked to the Superior region and cabins in the Arrowhead, and also to this major and amazing bird refuge. I used to know someone with a cabin in those parts a short walk from the Lost Forty.

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Critter News

JANUARY 3, 2011

BEST Illinois (best) Maine Michigan Oregon California WORST Mississippi Idaho Hawaii North Dakota Kentucky. New Jersey Illinois Massachusetts Colorado Maine WORST STATES Ohio Hawaii Alabama North Dakota Mississippi Idaho South Dakota (worst) According to the Animal Legal Defense Fund, the states fell this way.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 26, 2008

Among the best: California, Illinois, Maine, Michigan, Oregon. The ALDF has released a report on how different states' animal protection laws stack up.

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Animal Legal Defense Fund Animal Protection South Dakota ALDF 100

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

The ruling today affects wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. TRAVERSE CITY - State officials say they're not pleased with a federal court's ruling overturning the government's decision to remove the gray wolf from the endangered species list for the Great Lakes region. District Court in Washington, D.C.,

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10,000 Birds

JULY 15, 2016

I’m still in Michigan enjoying the lake life, despite the prosaic (for a New Yorker) birding. Summer is full swing here in the Northern Hemisphere, which means a birder’s fancy turns to less predictable targets. Traditionally, we might start chasing butterflies or odes, but these days bring more colorful fare. How about you?

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