10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 12, 2011

I may have to buy a smartphone : For more than a year, Berres (and his graduate students, of course) have been testing and improving the fruit of that inspiration: WeBIRD, the Wisconsin Electronic Bird Identification Resource Database.

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Wisconsin Species Birds 262

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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Eagles Wounded Bald Eagle Wisconsin 257

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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Connecticut Wisconsin Michigan Hawaii 196

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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San Francisco Wisconsin Sanctuary Science 224

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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New Zealand Wisconsin Minnesota Eagles 252

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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Rats Wisconsin Rodents Birds 171

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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Badgers Wisconsin Birds Research 199

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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Tennessee Hunting Hunters Wisconsin 247

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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Turkey Hunters Coyotes Boston 257

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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Milwaukee Camels Mongolia Oklahoma 278

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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West Virginia United States Puerto Rico Minnesota 260

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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Myanmar Bangladesh Ducks Wisconsin 238

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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Sheep Wisconsin Groups PETA 100

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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Cats Leopards Kittens Unwanted 240

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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Animal Welfare Welfare AETA Wisconsin 100

10,000 Birds

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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Washington Wisconsin Michigan Minnesota 178

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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Bald Eagle Alabama Kansas Wisconsin 200

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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Indiana Downers Iowa Illinois 170

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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Wildlife Maryland San Francisco Minnesota 279

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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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 244

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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Feral Cats Wisconsin Feral Cats 179

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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United States Owls Atlanta North Carolina 275

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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Minnesota Owls Bald Eagle Hoarding 228

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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Wildlife Wildlife Rehabilitation Oklahoma Michigan 255

Critter News

JUNE 15, 2010

Tags: animal research medical research university of madison-wisconsin.

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Advocacy Research Medical Research Wisconsin 100

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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North America Iowa Wisconsin Michigan 183

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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Transported Wildlife Rehabilitation Bats Opossums 279

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2016

federal government’s Operation Migration program, which has used ultralight aircraft to teach migration routes to the endangered cranes, has flown its last group of Whoopers from Wisconsin to Florida. Over 15 years, the program sought to boost the cranes’ numbers and enable them to someday flourish without intervention.

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Wisconsin Texas Florida Canada 108

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 (..)

AETA 100

AETA Marine Life Animal Welfare Wisconsin 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.,

Humane Society Of The United States 100

Humane Society Of The United States Wolves Endangered Species The Humane Society 100

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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Rhode Island United States West Virginia Puerto Rico 117

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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Prairie Dogs Colorado North Dakota Soreing 176

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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Wolves Obama South Dakota North Dakota 100

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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Stud Cougars Wisconsin Investigation 100

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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Costa Rica Solomon Islands Wisconsin Farming 189

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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Wisconsin 2011 Philadelphia Bats 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2020

And, Ursula Murray Husted’s “Koan” is a lovely graphic story touched with a wry sense of humor, about a visit to Horicon Marsh, Wisconsin to watch the pelican migration, a simple story that is really not simple because it’s all about flying, disappointment, and surprises.

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New York City Fox Owls California Condor 253