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Location: Estabrook Park Observation date: 8/9/09, 8:05-11:25 am Weather: 82°F rising to 88°F, clear, wind SW @ 14 mph, gusting to 21 mph Number of species: 26 A couple of birds caught my interest in the park this morning: The first was an Osprey, which...
Operation Migration's new CraneCam is quite a treat. It offers a behind-the-scenes view of Whooping Cranes at Necedah National Wildlife Refuge, home base of the eastern reintroduction project. Viewers can watch online as Operation Migration’s pilots...
Ten days ago, we learned that one of this summer's two wild-hatched Whooping Crane chicks in Wisconsin had died. Now, the second chick appears to have died. According to the Whooping Crane tracking and monitoring team, the chick, which was hatched...
A Whooping Crane chick that hatched at the Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in central Wisconsin last month has died. Richard Urbanek, the federal biologist who tracks the birds, says the last time he saw the chick was at 1 p.m. on Sunday, June 28. He...
Two adult Whooping Cranes walk toward their brown-feathered chick, which is visible in a small clearing in the vegetation at left. Photo by Richard Urbanek, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Less than a week after a pair of endangered Whooping Cranes in...
A pair of Whooping Cranes in Wood County, Wisconsin, are parents after the egg in their nest hatched yesterday. The birds, known as 12-02 and 19-04, had nested north of Necedah National Wildlife Refuge in late April but later abandoned the nest. Their...
More Kirtland's Warblers arrived last week at the site in Adams County, Wisconsin, where they nested last year and the year before, bringing this year’s total to 14 -- 8 males, 6 females. Joel A. Trick of the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and Kim...
Last week, as Matt reported here , came the great news that male Kirtland's Warblers had returned to the site in Adams County here in Wisconsin where they fledged 10 young last year. Now we've received the even better news that at least four females...
Location: Estabrook Park Observation date: 5/9/09, 9:20 a.m.-1:15 p.m. Weather: 48°F, overcast, wind N @ 14 mph. Heavy rain overnight and earlier in morning Number of species: 57 Two sounds greeted me when I woke up yesterday morning: steady rain drumming...
Want to know why I'm happy Birder's World is published in Wisconsin? Because it's full of great places to look for birds and just as full of smart, knowledgeable birders. Many of them have written or contributed to the magazine over the years...
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