Wildlife
Beach-dwelling gulls are vehicles for bacteria
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Ring-billed gulls travel between populated beaches and human waste sites like landfills and water treatment plants, carrying human pathogens with them.
Wildlife
Clean your birdhouses regularly?
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After birds lay their eggs and their fledglings take off in the spring, you might have an empty bird box at this point. Should you clean out the nest they leave behind?
Wildlife
Changes in migratory bird patterns likely caused by climate change, study finds
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Migratory bird patterns are shifting as temperatures increase in North America, leaving birds to find new sources of food and adjust to the warmer climate, according to a new study
Birds
Saving streams can save bugs and birds
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Birds that rely on aquatic insects for food have declined for decades.
Birds
Over $500,000 dedicated to pheasant habitat conservation in Illinois
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Two new projects will use over $500,000 to help the declining pheasant population in Illinois by improving habitat, experts say.
Birds
Diet may solve mysterious decline of Great Lakes shorebirds
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Scientists are looking at the diet of bank swallows to understand what is causing their population decline.
Birds
U.S., Canadian researchers conduct binational birds conservation research
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The third part of a 5-part series on trans-border U.S. and Canadian environmental research projects.
Birds
Federal plan might let states kill unwanted cormorants
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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.
Recreation
New fee has pheasant hunters up in arms
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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.
Birds
Microplastics are filling the Great Lakes and birds’ bellies
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Researchers found man-made debris in the stomachs of baby cormorants from both urban and remote areas.