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CARROLL TOWNSHIP - As the clock hit 8 a.m. Friday, a Division of Wildlife staffer walked up to a door to Magee Marsh Wildlife Area's popular boardwalk area and unlocked it. That's not usually how birding season kicks off at Magee Marsh's boardwalk, where thousands of bird enthusiasts nationwide converge in Ottawa County annually during peak migration. It didn't matter to Rebecca Torisky. She drove up from Marysville and stood first in line Friday, eager to see the warblers and other birds she missed last year. Torisky normally comes up to Magee Marsh at least once a year and her trek is a...

The Beacon One of the most glamorous birds visiting Northwest Ohio each spring is the sandhill crane. It is a topic Dr. Richard Beilfuss, President & CEO of the International Crane Foundation, will focus on during the Biggest Week in American Birding on May 6-10. Sandhill cranes often visit the Toledo Metropark’s Howard Marsh, just west of Magee Marsh Wildlife Area. (Photo by D’Arcy Patrick Egan) The Biggest Week in American Birding (BWIAB), hosted by the Black Swamp Bird Observatory (BSBO), will present a virtual program on May 6-10 because of Covid-19 restrictions. The BSBO will feature...

CARROLL TOWNSHIP - With more and more heading outdoors to embrace wildlife as the Biggest Week in American Birding approaches, a group of researchers is hoping for some help from the public with a study of one species they are sure to see and hear — trumpeter swans. According to U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service zone biologist Joshua Booker, trumpeter swans across five states, Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Iowa and Wisconsin, and Canadian province Manitoba, were equipped with GPS-GSM transmitters on neck collar tags starting in 2019. Researchers are studying the species’ migration patterns, mo...

Toledo Museum of Art to open 'Birds in Art and Culture' exhibit The Monroe News The Toledo Museum of Art will present "Rare and Wondrous: Birds in Art and Culture 1620-1820" from April 24 to July 25.  The exhibition, curated by TMA’s Head of Interpretive Projects and Managing Editor Paula Reich, will showcase the Museum’s recent acquisition of the important six-volume series "Ornithologie," written by Mathurin-Jacques Brisson, illustrated by François-Nicolas Martinet and published in 1760. "Rare and Wondrous" will also feature paintings, prints and decorative arts from TMA’s collec...

Magee Marsh Boardwalk will be open for limited birding access Visitors must register online; no signup needed for rest of park trails CARROLL TOWNSHIP - It can be a tight squeeze to navigate through Magee Marsh Wildlife Area's winding, narrow boardwalk when visitors converge on Ground Zero of Northwest Ohio's spring bird migration. Thousands of birders congregate at the popular Ottawa County birding site and other Northwest Ohio hot spots to get their fill of yellow-rumped warblers, ruby-crowned kinglets and warbling vireos during the birds' migration peak in April and May. To avoid a simi...