Wildlife
Bald eagles face deadly threat from lead poisoning
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The success story of the American bald eagle’s comeback is widely celebrated, but lead poisoning is a serious threat to the species.
Wildlife
The Green Room: Birds, glass and cats-preventable impacts
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What do habitat destruction, cats and glass all have in common? They threaten songbirds. But solutions exist.
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A field guide for fruit flies
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New book “Drosophilids of the Midwest and Northeast” gives fruit flies overdue accolades.
Wildlife
A frog concert after dark
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Citizen scientists survey the state’s wetlands, listening to male frogs and toads croak their pick-up lines into the dark.
Asian carp
Michigan seeks ‘Eureka!’ cry on carp control
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The state is pursuing a game show technique increasingly used to solve difficult natural resource and other problems. Will it be enough to prompt someone to run naked down the street?
Wildlife
Invasive species gang up on native crayfish
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Invasive mussels and crayfish in the Great Lakes are supporting each other to the detriment of the native crayfish.
Endangered wildlife
Wastewater deadzone kills mussels
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An extreme example in an Ontario river shows these mollusks are more sensitive to pollution than we knew.
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Great Lakes vulnerable to outbreak of fish virus
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A new study shows that large parts of the Great Lakes can host a virus responsible for thousands of fish deaths in the region.
Wildlife
Usually the villain, invasive species odd hero for native fish
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Cisco supported one of the largest fisheries in the Great Lakes before their collapse 60 years ago. They’re now mounting a comeback, and an invasive species is opening the door.
Endangered wildlife
Great Lakes mammoths may have starved after population explosion
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Demise of the predators that ate them may have led to their own downfall.