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Sundays are for the birds
12+ hour, 6+ min ago (35+ words) [Image 5 of 14] DVIDS Sundays are for the birds [Image 5 of 14] YOUNGSTOWN AIR RESERVE STATION, OHIO, UNITED STATES 910th Airlift Wing /search/unit/910AW /rss/unit/2378...
Decades of August roadside surveys in Iowa show wildlife and habitat changes
4+ day, 5+ hour ago (1268+ words) Young pheasants like to dry off along gravel roads on mornings with heavy dew. Iowa Department of Natural Resources staff use these mornings to count wildlife populations. Every August, for over half a century, Iowa Department of Natural Resource staff…...
Why Bristlecone Pines Only Grow Where Nothing Else Will
1+ week, 6+ day ago (278+ words) What is actually going on involves a specific rock, a trade-off that most trees cannot afford, and a scientific consensus that has shifted in the last decade. Two additional properties are important and have opposite effects. Dolomite's pale color reflects…...
St. Louis Arch goes dark this month as millions of birds migrate along Mississippi River
1+ week, 6+ day ago (84+ words) West Kentucky Star St. Louis Arch goes dark this month as millions of birds migrate along Mississippi River Demolition of 84-year-old Chester bridge set this month Wendell Berry, Kentucky-born author who advocated a simpler life, has died at 92 DEA tactic…...
Plover Nesting Season Sets New High
2+ week, 5+ hour ago (321+ words) Birds, Maine's Naturalist, News & Notes, Plovers & Terns · August 31, 2026 Maine Piping Plovers have done it again by shattering past record numbers, reaching 191 breeding pairs that fledged 352 chicks. Last year was our prior record of breeding pairs with 174 and the most chicks…...
Against All Odds, An Endangered Bird Is Now Nesting Again On Wisconsin Point
2+ week, 5+ day ago (522+ words) A bird barely bigger than a tennis ball has done something on Wisconsin Point that no one had witnessed since Gerald Ford was in the White House. For the first time in 49 years, a pair of endangered piping plovers built…...
Endangered Plovers Nesting On Wisconsin Point
2+ week, 5+ day ago (150+ words) SUPERIOR, WI (KDAL) – For the first time in 49 years, a pair of piping plovers, an endangered migratory shore bird, have been observed nesting on Wisconsin Point in Superior. The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources says the St. Louis River estuary…...
Relocating merlins may reduce threats to endangered Great Lakes piping plovers, study finds
2+ week, 6+ day ago (861+ words) A relocated merlin is released. Along the shores of the Great Lakes, the piping plover (Charadrius melodus) remains one of North America’s rarest and most vulnerable birds. Predation is one of the challenges facing these migratory shorebirds. Among the predators…...
For the first time in nearly 50 years, endangered piping plovers nest on Wisconsin Point
2+ week, 5+ day ago (295+ words) WPR For the first time in almost 50 years, a pair of endangered shorebirds have been spotted nesting on one of the world’s largest freshwater sandbars on Lake Superior. Project part of efforts to restore polluted Great Lakes site In 2019, local,…...
Endangered piping plovers nesting at northern Wisconsin site for first time since 1977
2+ week, 5+ day ago (187+ words) (WLUK) -- An endangered bird that is seeing a comeback along the shores of Green Bay is now nesting at another location in Wisconsin. A pair of piping plovers has been observed nesting this summer on Wisconsin Point in Superior, the…...