AVMA News

MARCH 26, 2024

A juvenile goat on a Minnesota farm is the first U.S. case of a U.S. case of a domestic ruminant succumbing to highly pathogenic avian influenza.

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Minnesota Goats Farming 483

10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2022

And buildings without thought for birdlife, significant buildings like the Minnesota Vikings shiny “death trap” for birds, are still being built.** Although the Minnesota Vikings stadium (officially the U.S. Dr. Daniel Klem, Jr.,

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New York City Birds Illinois Science 256

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2014

I work part-time for the Mississippi National River and Recreation Area and here are some stunning views of our very urban park along the Mississippi River through the Twin Cities in Minnesota: This video is not only remarkable for the views, but also the places they take the small drone–behind waterfalls, are you kidding me?

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Bald Eagle Mississippi Eagles Ducks 195

Animal Person

APRIL 6, 2010

The husband and I took the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory (MMPI) a couple of months ago and received the most unremarkable results. The personality characteristics we were both deemed to have can all be found by observation as well as a 500+ question test. Not a great quality, but dreadfully effective.

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Animal Pigs Human Animals Humane 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2014

Over the least couple of weeks the best view I’ve had of Minnesota has been out my northward facing window. We test the hypothesis that these suites of traits have evolved independently on each island via natural selection pressures from one of two predator regimes – birds-only and birds + snakes. But I do have a few items.

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Birds Bald Eagle Zoos Eggs 180

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

To a birder, migration means that you can live in Minnesota, New York, Paris or Moscow and see exotic tropical birds such as Piranga olivacea and Icterus galbula on a regular basis without buying a plane ticket. The birds do the flying for you. Some of the research being done then (the 1980s) was pretty naive and sometimes downright silly.

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Research Humane Compassion New York 194

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2013

My other two favorites would be the Detroit Lakes Festival of Birds in Minnesota because you can do three different biomes—one day it’s prairie (bobolinks, shorebirds and Henslow’s sparrows), the next boreal forest (black-backed woodpeckers and loons) and then load up on warblers in a deciduous hardwood forest. If not, why the omission?

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Rabbits Detroit Florida Minnesota 237