Now Wisconsin Too?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 3, 2012
A lawmaker in Wisconsin is proposing a Sandhill Crane hunt. When will the madness end?
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Students, veterinarians address animal welfare scenarios during annual contest
AVMA News
DECEMBER 8, 2023
The 23rd annual AVMA Animal Welfare Assessment Contest, or AWJAC, took place November 17-19 at the University of Wisconsin-River Falls. Participants completed in-person assessments of the welfare of animals in a variety of scenarios, including laboratory rats, farmed bison, cage-free laying hens, and tortoises in a zoo.
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Mark Markel elected first veterinarian president-elect of AO Foundation
AVMA News
JULY 12, 2023
Mark Markel, an equine surgeon and dean of the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine, was recently elected president-elect of the AO Foundation, the world’s largest nonprofit orthopedic foundation.
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Wisconsin-Madison Cleared by USDA
Critter News
JANUARY 26, 2010
The University of Wisconsin-Madison was cleared of animal welfare violations in a report released yesterday. Tags: animal research animal laboratories wisconsin. It had twenty violations back in December 2009. They had to do so after the December report or heads would probably roll.
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Dane County Debates Wisconsin Animal Research
Critter News
FEBRUARY 9, 2010
Not sure anything will come of this, but Dane County is turning its attention to the primate research going on at University of Madison-Wisconsin. Tags: animal research primates university of madison-wisconsin. From Channel3000.com.
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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. In early July, a young bald eagle fledged into the Wisconsin River. Wisconsin eagles are often released in January or February, when they are not territorial. The phone rang early.
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Birds In Movies
10,000 Birds
JULY 10, 2013
Since these things are filmed in New Zealand, I would have guessed they’d use a New Zealand bird but hey, the fact that they used the state bird of Wisconsin and even dubbed it over with the actual call totally impressed me. Not only that–its sound effect as he chirped was total American Robin! ” P.S.
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Green Bay Turns to Hawks to Stop Rats
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 13, 2011
Green Bay, Wisconsin, will put up nesting platforms and boxes in an attempt to lure birds of prey. The nesting program isn’t to benefit the birds but to try to contain a serious rodent problem. How cool is that?
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What is the State Bird of Connecticut?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2015
Found in all fifty states except for Hawaii, the robin is also the state bird of not just Connecticut, but Michigan and Wisconsin as well. Looks like these birds will remain symbols of Connecticut, Michigan, and Wisconsin far into the future! Few birds are as ubiquitous in the United States as the American Robin.
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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. Magpies sometimes get a bad rap, but a new study finds that kleptomania shouldn’t be part of it. Birding in the Bronx? Yep, at the Dred Scott Bird Sanctuary.
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Stop the Tennessee Sandhill Crane Hunt! (Again)
10,000 Birds
JULY 8, 2013
More than 50,000 Sandhill Cranes stop to feed while migrating during the fall and winter between Wisconsin and Florida. Tennessee started a festival around the event, just for wildlife watchers. The cranes liked the superabundant food, and a lot of them decided to hang around and spend the winter in Tennessee.
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Biofuel: Now With More Birds
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 13, 2014
In it, researchers from Wisconsin compared cornfields with grasslands in terms of which provided better bird habitat. And some of those options may be more beneficial to birds than are acres and acres of cornfields. That’s the gist of a new study published in PLOS ONE.
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Wild Turkeys Causing Car Accidents
10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2011
There’s a story out of Wisconsin this week of a 5 year old boy that was shot because someone thought he was a turkey. As much of joy as it is to see such a large bird roaming the neighborhoods, it will make for more opportunities of turkey collisions with cars. There’s also another issue–the spring turkey hunting season.
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448 Great Things to do in Nature
10,000 Birds
APRIL 9, 2013
Stacy Tornio grew up in Oklahoma, though she’s lived in Wisconsin for the last ten years. As kids who grew up playing outside, building forts, catching frogs and climbing trees, Stacy Tornio and Ken Keffer know just how important it is for children to get outside and play. About the authors.
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Groups Seek Charges in Sheep Decompression Tests
Critter News
MARCH 19, 2010
PETA and the Alliance for Animals are asking for charges to be filed against the University of Wisconsin at Madison. From the Wisconsin State Journal. It is illegal in Wisconsin to kill an animal by means of decompression. Tags: animal research sheep PETA university of madison-wisconsin.
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100 Cats Indoors Compromise!
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 24, 2011
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. . &# The tunnel goes from the porch to the Leopard Lounge.&#
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240 Key AETA Supporter Suspended Over Animal Welfare
Critter News
MAY 8, 2010
Michelle Basso was a researcher at the University of Wisconsin who worked with primates. Tags: animal research animal enterprise terrorism act primates University of Wisconsin. She testified in favor of the Animal Enterprise Terrorism Act in front of the House Judiciary Committee. Now, she's been suspended from working with animals.
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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). A few states still have no checklists at all: Nebraska , Minnesota , Iowa , Kentucky , West Virginia , Mississippi , and Alabama.
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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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Why Are Red-breasted Nuthatches Irrupting?
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 1, 2012
Bird bloggers from Wisconsin to Massachusetts. Sitta canadensis isn’t just irrupting out of its far northern home but exploding southward, with reports in every southern state except for Florida, including birds on the outer banks of North Carolina, on Grand Isle, Louisiana, in a suburb of Atlanta, and on the Gulf Coast of Texas.
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Where Have You Gone, Rhodonessa caryophyllacea?
10,000 Birds
MAY 11, 2013
” that leads to comments like “…my wife and I observed what I could swear is that exact bird two days ago, on a pond in NE Wisconsin!”
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The Economic Impact of Birding on National Wildlife Refuges: Creating Local Jobs
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2019
Horicon NWR (Wisconsin): 434,000; $8.6 Bombay Hook NWR (Delaware); 166,000; $5.3 million; 48 jobs. Chincoteague NWR (Virginia/Maryland): 7,000,000; $390 million; 3,647. Forsythe NWR (New Jersey): 306,000; $6.0 million; 50 jobs. million; 104 jobs. John Heinz NWR (Pennsylvania): 358,000; $4.6 million; 35 jobs. million; 293 jobs.
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272 The Wildlife Rehabilitator’s Wish List
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 9, 2013
“I’d wish for rehabber-appreciative regulators who don’t think adding paperwork equals adding security,” wrote Louise in Oregon.
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Anti-Research Advocacy in Madison
Critter News
JUNE 15, 2010
Tags: animal research medical research university of madison-wisconsin.
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Underbirded
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 12, 2014
Every western dove and flycatcher that turns up along our wind-swept coast came there from somewhere; every alcid that somehow makes it to Wisconsin likewise, but in reverse. It’s not an original thought that there must be other parks out there that hide treasures. Desperate birds notoriously take desperate measures.
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Minnesota, a Winter Owl Wonderland
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 24, 2013
Later in the day, we made the short hop over the border into Superior, Wisconsin to look for the Snowy Owl reported at the airport. I could hardly contain my excitement as I gazed at a Great Gray Owl and watched it hunt through someone else’s scope. Canal Park in Duluth is well known for its wintering gulls, by Carlos Sanchez.
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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds
10,000 Birds
APRIL 18, 2021
We had a fledgling Yellow-billed Cuckoo delivered in a glass of water,” said Marge Cahak Gibson in Wisconsin. “By This brings us to those puzzling aqua-deliveries, none of which ever seem to entail wildlife that live in water. “We By a lawyer.” ” “A nestling American Robin in a bucket of water,” wrote Jane Neville, now in Florida.
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279 All Three Populations of North American Trumpeter Swans Are Increasing
10,000 Birds
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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178 Endangered and Disappearing Birds of the Midwest by Matt Williams
10,000 Birds
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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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.
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01/02/09 Podcast Uploaded
Critter News
JANUARY 3, 2010
In this week's podcast ending January 2, 2010: **The USDA and National Institutes of Health find animal welfare violations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; **the Catalan Parliament in Spain finally votes to ban bullfighting in the region; **the Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro, CA has a record year for marine life suffering from illness (..)
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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.,
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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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. And so on….
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115 Boy Crazy: Why Older Loon Ladies Chase Young Studs
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 10, 2016
That is one of many interesting findings from The Loon Project, which studies the territorial and breeding behavior of Loons in northern Wisconsin. When aging male Common Loons begin to lose their mojo or die off, females are still going strong—and ready for action, even if that means seeking the attentions of younger males.
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100 Forgotten Prairies
10,000 Birds
JULY 28, 2011
I can certainly speak about the Midwest where states like Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota, etc. Outside of hardcore twitchers looking for specialty birds and after speaking to thousands and thousands of birders, I have concluded that most people really do not put much emphasis on our prairies. have over-developed these areas for agricultural uses.
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Trolling for Cuckoos in Costa Rica
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2017
Have a technicolor Lewis’s Woodpecker fly over a funeral in Wisconsin, though, and the birders are revealed when they either let out an audible gasp, tear their phones out of their pockets with fumbling hands to get the word out, or suddenly rush back to their vehicles (to either report the news or fly home for optics).
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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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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
Passenger Pigeon chick in aviary, 1896, photographer’s identification uncertain, photo now property of the Historical Society of Wisconsin, p. And so, Fuller embarked on a new initiative—locating and researching photographs of lost birds and, expanding his scope, of mammals.
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5 things to know about pets and pests
4 The Love Of Animals
JUNE 1, 2010
Be aware of areas where Lyme disease (a common tick-borne illness) is prevalent: the eastern coastal states and the north central states, especially parts of Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania, Maryland, Wisconsin and northern California. Ticks must be removed properly. to try to remove the tick.
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Birding for the Curious: A Book Review
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2015
Most of these photos are by photographers associated with the USFWS and Wisconsin Dept. Photographs are also used in specific sections, notably “common species useful for size comparison,” examples of birds with distinct silhouettes, and the Bonus chapter, 50 species that you won’t find in your backyard.
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263 We need to talk about your life list
10,000 Birds
JUNE 8, 2014
In a small town named Albion, in the south of Wisconsin, there is a small cemetary where a man is buried that you may know well. But let me tell you another story. You may not have met him in person as he died in 1888, yet you have likely met one of the footsteps he left behind.
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Comebackers
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
is going to have to go to Michigan or Wisconsin. Photographed in Crawford County, MI, by Chris McCreedy. The Kirtland’s Warbler…the reason that one day, almost every birder in the U.S. Kirtland’s Warbler is a classic niche species; they breed in only very specific conditions, which occur in only a very specific area.
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