The most comprehensive study ever undertaken of marsh birds' abundance around Great Lakes coastlines shows virtually all of the bird species thriving over the past decade-plus — likely because of high ...
Despite booms, scores of oil-slicked birds turn up in Louisiana marshlands. June 10, 2010 — -- Rescuer David Hayden is on a mission. He fights his way through thick, overgrown mangroves in ...
It’s impossible to prove a negative, but not finding something does not prove it is absent. For example, at least one species of rail (an elusive group of marsh birds that are notoriously difficult to ...
Kimberly Kaufman, Black Swamp Bird Observatory's executive director. and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine sport matching Bird Ohio hats during the Governor’s Bird Ohio Day on May 4. OAK HARBOR - When Kimberly ...
A slow-moving ecological disaster is underway along the shoreline from Park Street to near the Bay Farm Island Bridge, an area that normally is covered with marsh vegetation that shorebirds rely on as ...
Pine Island Center Director Robbie Fearn plays bird call recordings at one of the survey points on the Pine Island Reserve. It was overcast and windy on a late afternoon in late May. Robbie Fearn, Cat ...
SAGINAW COUNTY, Mich. — To see a rail is rare, to convince it to roost in a Michigan wetland is another task. In a three-year study, a now-former PhD candidate at Central Michigan University used ...
BILOXI, Miss. (WLOX) - Mother Nature can be cruel. Tropical Storm Cristobal brought about a thousand birds known as clapper rails onto the Harrison County beaches. They are a long way from home. “We ...
With a sharp eye and a love for Alameda's feathered friends, Deborah Crooks made a remarkable discovery at the Elsie Roemer ...
I much prefer living birds to dead ones, but there are times when a cotton-filled specimen is just fine. Besides, if not for the Field Museum, I might never see a black rail. Last month, I visited the ...
If you happen to notice a new antenna on top of the environmental center at Big Marsh Park, once part of Southeast Side steel mill dumping grounds and now home to burgeoning habitat and a growing ...