Wildlife and Wisconsin - Animal Rights Zone

The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2013

The general public is out and about, birds and animals are raising their young, and human/wildlife interaction is at its peak. Violation of the law would be punishable by substantial fines, plus the cat owners would be required to perform community service at a local wildlife rehabilitation facility. Summer is high season.

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The Economic Impact of Birding on National Wildlife Refuges: Creating Local Jobs

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) attempts to calculate the economic contribution of National Wildlife Refuge visitation to local communities. Rather, birding and other wildlife observation ( e.g., photography) are lumped together as “non-consumptive” uses of a refuge. Every few years, the U.S. billion for local communities.

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Stop the Tennessee Sandhill Crane Hunt! (Again)

10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2013

Yes, the earth has gone around the sun twice since the uproar from birders and other lovers of wildlife managed to convince the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency to table the idea of hunting Sandhill Cranes in Tennessee for two years. Tennessee started a festival around the event, just for wildlife watchers. It’s bad PR.

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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

10,000 Birds

APRIL 18, 2021

Occasionally I host wildlife rehabilitator vent-fests, where I post a question on Facebook and duly note the rehabber responses. Today’s topic comes from Tracy Anderson in Hawaii: what was the strangest container (or method of transport) in which you have received wildlife? said Alix Parks of Happinest Wildlife Rehab in Tennessee.

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Of Bird Diets, Dangers, and Delinquents

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2014

Some jerk (I’d use a stronger word, but this is a family-friendly website) in Wisconsin is shooting raptors. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) in Maine, will use “nano-tags” to track migrating birds. Birding in the Bronx? Yep, at the Dred Scott Bird Sanctuary. Another study, led by the U.S.

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Lightning Storms and Eagles

10,000 Birds

JULY 26, 2013

It was the Marathon County Sheriff’s Department, calling to report a Bald Eagle standing “crumpled” in remote area near Wausau, Wisconsin. Even as a veteran wildlife rehabilitator, I could scarcely believe the sight before me. In early July, a young bald eagle fledged into the Wisconsin River. The phone rang early.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

With the proposed hunting seasons on sandhill cranes being discussed in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin, we must not forget the whooping crane, which travels and winters in the big sandhill crane flocks. photo by Cyndi Routledge Here it is then, another angle on the proposed sandhill crane seasons in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin.

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Cats Indoors Compromise!

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2011

According to US Fish and Wildlife domestic rural cats kill roughly 39 million birds annually. When asked about the winter, Lorraine said that she will probably only let them out when she’s home, she suspects they will not want to play in the Wisconsin snow and cold nearly as much as they do in spring, summer and fall.

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10,000 Birds goes eBirding – Part II

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The Collective added six new states in the past three years, but none have eclipsed the century mark: Wisconsin ( 74 ), Utah (55), Hawaii (38), Oklahoma (18), Rhode Island (9), and Connecticut (5). For example, my list of the Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for birding includes an excellent location in Minnesota ( Minnesota Valley NWR ).

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Reflecting on a Year of Less Birding

10,000 Birds

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. Marks National Wildlife Refuge replenished by naturalist spirit, but remained all I could manage.

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Comebackers

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

is going to have to go to Michigan or Wisconsin. Fish and Wildlife Service. On the short list of wins for wildlife during the Bush II era, Short-tailed Albatross were officially listed as Endangered in 2000. But within a couple of decades, it’s effects on both wildlife and humanity became apparent.

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Court Overrules Federal Government on Wolf ESA Decision

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SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

The ruling today affects wolves in Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin. Fish and Wildlife Service was not supported by the federal Endangered Species Act. It's in response to a lawsuit filed by several environmental groups, including The Humane Society of the United States. District Court in Washington, D.C.,

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Obama's Rules Freeze May Help Wolves

Critter News

JANUARY 30, 2009

Wildlife conservationists say the freeze will delay and possibly prevent the removal of gray wolves from the federal endangered species list in Montana, Idaho, Minnesota, Wisconsin and Michigan, and also in portions of Washington, Oregon, Utah, North Dakota, South Dakota, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.

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The Kirtland’s Warbler: The Story of a Bird’s Fight Against Extinction and the People Who Saved It: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2012

Recently it has also been documented as breeding in Wisconsin, Ontario, and the Upper Michigan Peninsula, but those birds are few and not always accessible. Fish and Wildlife Service endangered species list. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Michigan Department of Natural Resources, and the U.S. Forest Service.

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10,000 Birds goes eBirding

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Some states have no species at all, not even a pigeon, crow, or sparrow: Hawaii , Utah , Nebraska , Oklahoma , Minnesota , Iowa , Wisconsin , Kentucky , West Virginia , Mississippi , Alabama , Connecticut , and Rhode Island. Even the nation’s capital has been ignored.

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Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth – A Film Review

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

The film is produced by the Cornell Lab or Ornithology, but it is clear from the start that its driving force is Neil Rettig, a well-respected award-winning nature cinematographer who keeps a Harpy Eagle in his Wisconsin barn and who first filmed the Philippine Eagle over 36 years ago. 1980’s Filmstrip, photo by Eric Liner.

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Recent Changes to the Costa Rica Bird List

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2019

Folks want to know what they can see, if it’s worth traveling to Trinidad and Tobago, if they should to to Ecuador for three days or three weeks, or if one should drive to Wisconsin to look for a vireo with white eyes or a blue head.

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Evil Twin Brewing Falco India Pale Ale

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Titletown Brewing Company of Green Bay, Wisconsin has brewed Swifts’ Night Ale to help raise awareness of recent declines in Chimney Swift populations.

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Central Waters Brewing Company: Brewhouse Coffee Stout

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2018

But it is a good one: Brewhouse Coffee Stout is a specialty release brewed by Central Waters Brewing Company of Amherst, Wisconsin using coffee roasted in-house by Emy J’s Coffee House and Café in nearby Stevens Point. Before you get too excited, relax: it’s only a coffee beer. leaving its identity anyone’s guess.

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Jane Goodall Charity Auction

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Phil; • Tickets to see the Georgetown Men’s Basketball team at the Verizon Center in Washington, D.C.; • Signed scripts from Fast Five and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation; • Tickets to see Penn State football at Wisconsin; and. • An autographed batting helmet from Philadelphia Phillies player and 2011 MLB All-Star Shane Victorino.

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Horus Aged Ales: Osprey’s Fresh Catch

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2018

When I resumed birding on my own in my late 20s in Queens, I always looked forward to seeing the several pairs of Ospreys nesting at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, a sight made all the more welcome after I learned of their drastic decline in the 1950s and ’60s due to the use of the insecticide DDT, followed by a remarkable population recovery.

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First Post-COVID-19 Birding Trip: Wisconsin and Horicon NWR

10,000 Birds

JULY 13, 2021

I settled on Wisconsin, which is home to one of the Top 25 NWRs for Birding that I have not visited: Horicon NWR. Additionally, I have written about Waterfowl Production Areas (WPAs), which are important but underappreciated parts of the National Wildlife Refuge System. Thus, I limited my options. But now it has.

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Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2018

There are more than 550 national wildlife refuges in the United States, with at least one in every state and one within an hour drive of almost every major American city. Both birds and birders flock to national wildlife refuges. Horicon NWR (Wisconsin). Fish & Wildlife Service. Bombay Hook NWR (Delaware).

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WPAs: America’s Duck Factories

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2017

Birders are familiar with the National Wildlife Refuge System, which consists of more than 550 units distributed through all fifty states. National Wildlife Refuges (NWRs), which are managed by the U.S. FWS calls WPAs the “Prairie Jewels of the National Wildlife Refuge System.”. Ding” Darling NWR in Florida. million acres.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

Cade credited the 1965 Madison [Wisconsin] Peregrine Conference with further alerting him and many others to the plight of Peregrines and other birds of prey. About falconers, he said, “They helped sound the alarm, they visited nests. .” Again, Cade led with solid evidence acquired through his own research.

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Taking on Turkeys

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

A recent news story (OK, the word “news” is stretched here, as it’s more of a roundup of local “turkeys on the rampage” stories) documents close encounters of the nasty kind between wild turkeys and humans, from Massachusetts to Wisconsin to California.

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Reflections on Five Years of Blogging

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2022

Several birding trips resulted in posts, including Santa Ana NWR (Texas), Nisqually NWR (Washington), Hagerman NWR (Texas), Conboy Lake NWR (Washington), and Horicon NWR (Wisconsin). The post entitled “ Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for Birding ” is likely second.

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Reflections on Five Years of Blogging

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2022

Several birding trips resulted in posts, including Santa Ana NWR (Texas), Nisqually NWR (Washington), Hagerman NWR (Texas), Conboy Lake NWR (Washington), and Horicon NWR (Wisconsin). The post entitled “ Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for Birding ” is likely second.

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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

According to Stanley Temple, a professor emeritus of conservation at the University of Wisconsin, “the extinction was part of the motivation for the birth of modern 20th century conservation.” Lacey of Iowa introduced the nation’s first wildlife-protection law, which banned the interstate shipping of unlawfully killed game.

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Duck Stamps and the Best National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2018

Not long ago, I posted a list of the 25 best National Wildlife Refuges for birding. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has published a list of NWRs that have been created or expanded with Duck Stamp funds. Horicon NWR (Wisconsin): 98.7%. How important are 10,000 or 100,000 or even 1,000,000 acres and where are those acres anyhow?

Ducks

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The Economic Impact of Birding on National Wildlife Refuges: Creating Local Jobs

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Stop the Tennessee Sandhill Crane Hunt! (Again)

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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

Of Bird Diets, Dangers, and Delinquents

Lightning Storms and Eagles

The Nonessential Whooping Crane

Cats Indoors Compromise!

10,000 Birds goes eBirding – Part II

Reflecting on a Year of Less Birding

Comebackers

Court Overrules Federal Government on Wolf ESA Decision

Obama's Rules Freeze May Help Wolves

The Kirtland’s Warbler: The Story of a Bird’s Fight Against Extinction and the People Who Saved It: A Book Review

10,000 Birds goes eBirding

Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth – A Film Review

Recent Changes to the Costa Rica Bird List

Evil Twin Brewing Falco India Pale Ale

Central Waters Brewing Company: Brewhouse Coffee Stout

Jane Goodall Charity Auction

Horus Aged Ales: Osprey’s Fresh Catch

First Post-COVID-19 Birding Trip: Wisconsin and Horicon NWR

Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

WPAs: America’s Duck Factories

Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

Taking on Turkeys

Reflections on Five Years of Blogging

Reflections on Five Years of Blogging

Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

Duck Stamps and the Best National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

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