by Sue Leaf | Oct 28, 2023 | Birds, Environment, Upcoming Events
On December 16th, Wild River Audubon will participate in the North American Christmas Bird Count (CBC) for the 47th year. Our CBC is the longest data-collecting endeavor in East-Central Minnesota in the history of the state. And it is not a government program, it is...
by Sue Leaf | Oct 28, 2023 | Birds, Environment
I stepped out the door to the bakery and paused. A faint bugling. Yes, cranes! Overhead! Looked up and saw perhaps twenty birds, flying high and heading south. But this wasn’t Chisago County and those weren’t Sandhill Cranes. I was on the island of Gotland in the...
by Sue Leaf | Oct 27, 2023 | Birds, Environment
An estimated one billion birds in the United States die from window collisions each year. That’s a shocking number and it makes window strikes one of the top three killers of birds, along with habitat destruction and outdoor cats. Birds fly into windows because they...
by Michelle Terrell | Oct 10, 2023 | Birds, Environment
If you were to grab your favorite bird field guide, turn to the description of the Limpkin (Aramus guarauna), and consult the range map, you would find the distribution of this species within the United States limited to Florida and adjoining portions of Georgia. It...
by Sue Leaf | Mar 13, 2023 | Birds, Environment
Years ago, the first stop for us on the Christmas Bird Count was at Glenn and Elsie Reed’s farm on County Road 20. They fed birds from an enormous column feeder crafted to resemble a traffic light. In those years in which Glenn got his deer, he also hung the ribcage...
by Michelle Terrell | Mar 13, 2023 | Birds, Environment
We have had an unexpected avian visitor this winter in our Audubon chapter area. A female Harlequin Duck (Histrionicus histrionicus) is wintering on the St. Croix River below the Highway 8 bridge that connects Taylors Falls, Minnesota with St. Croix Falls,...
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