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The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service has logged more than 1,000 public comments on a proposed rule that would give state agencies more choices in controlling cormorants that some anglers complain eat too many fish in the Great Lakes and inland waters. New options
would include lethal means.
A proposal crawling through the Michigan Legislature would require a $25 stamp for pheasant hunting, with the proceeds earmarked to stock the birds on state-owned land and to improve their habitat.
Researchers found man-made debris in the stomachs of baby cormorants from both urban and remote areas.
A new study points to the importance of how birds use their own odors to communicate.
A recent study done in the Great Lakes highlights the importance of waterbird hotspot conservation.
People might think that a larger city like New York would be guilty of more bird-window collisions than Chicago, but an unfortunate combination of building structures and geographical placement proves to be deadlier than size.
They’ll soon be here in the Great Lakes basin, a crucial stop on a 12,400 flight from Canada to the Amazon.
A crew of scientists, bird banders and wildlife veterinarians needs your sightings for research on the Arctic raptor’s mysterious migration patterns.
Playback project helps diversify population of endangered Kirtland’s warblers.
Environmentalists are celebrating the return of the Kirtland’s warbler in Michigan’s Northern Lower Peninsula.