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Antigo Times Enjoy “Migration Miracle” And Help Birds In Wisconsin FROM THE WISCONSIN DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES MADISON, Wis. – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) is encouraging bird watching enthusiasts to enjoy the miracle of migration and take some simple steps to help their fine-feathered friends. “Millions of birds will be passing through Wisconsin in May, coming from as far away as Argentina and going as far as Alaska and the Arctic Ocean,” said Craig Thompson, DNR Program Integration Section Chief. “It’s...

Article content Get your binoculars out — spring is a wonderful time for birdwatching. Every spring, thousands of tiny songbirds make the return journey from South America to the boreal forest near Lesser Slave Lake, Alta. We apologize, but this video has failed to load. Try refreshing your browser, or The best places in Canada for birdwatching Back to video For birdwatchers and bird researchers, few things are more exciting than migration season. Several years ago, at the Lesser Slave Lake Bird Observatory, I watched researchers doing visible migration counts, capturing, banding and rele...

In Nepal, 69 vultures, including endangered and near threatened species, die from eating poisoned dog carcasses Some of the 69 dead vultures. Photo: BCN/ Dev Bahadur Rana The site of the vultures' death. Photo: BCN/ Dev Bahadur Rana   In a shocking and tragic incident, 69 vultures have died of inadvertent poisoning in Nepal on April 24. The deaths occurred in the farmlands of the terai where villagers had used poisoned bait to kill stray dogs. These carcasses were then eaten by vultures who succumbed to the poison. As many as 35 white-rumped vultures, one slender-billed vulture (both cr...

Read Article   FALMOUTH — Western Maine Audubon is presenting a free online webinar for the general public on Wednesday, April 14th at 7:00 pm. The webinar is titled “Saving Seabirds: New Lessons from Puffins,” with Dr. Stephen Kress. About one third of all seabird species worldwide are now globally threatened because of the effects of invasive predatory mammals, marine pollution, coastal development, and climate change. Against this grim background, Dr. Kress’s presentation about the restoration of Maine seabirds offers hope and inspiration that people have the capacity to help bri...

Sick Sandwich Tern In 2018 at the height of the red tide outbreak, WGCU reported on dead birds falling from the sky in Collier and Lee counties. Now, conservation agencies have concluded those Common and Sandwich Terns died from diseases related to red tide blooms. Recently published research in the Journal of Comparative Pathology associates the dramatic bird die-off of 2018 to the unusual Bisgaard Taxon 40 bacteria. According to Audubon Florida, researchers believe that brevetoxin, a neurotoxinproduced by red tide, may weaken seabirds and make them susceptible to deadly bacterial infection...