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A Father’s Bird Journal
        Eighty Years Later

By Laurie Allmann | April 3, 2021 |

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Birds, History, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature Tagged With: birds

An uncommon home for the Common Tern

By Stephanie Hemphill | December 17, 2020 |

Tern-flying.jpeg

People are protecting Common Terns, which aren’t so common in the Midwest.

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Nature, Resource Management Tagged With: birds, colonial birds, Lake Superior, nesting, restoration, St. Louis River, terns

Hawks on High

By Phil Fitzpatrick | November 9, 2019 |

A trio of poems from Phil Fitzpatrick’s “Hawks on High”

Filed Under: Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Poetry, Uncategorized, wildlife

A Second Look at Fall Warblers

By Kim Eckert | October 10, 2018 |

Tennessee Warbler. (Sax-Zim Bog) Photo © Sparky Stensaas, @ www.thephotonaturalist.com

An essay from Kim Eckert’s book, Birding by Hindsight

Filed Under: Art, Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature

The Making of Minnesota’s New Atlas of Breeding Birds

By Lee Pfannmuller | February 13, 2018 |

The remarkable story of an 8-year effort

Filed Under: Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature Tagged With: birds, conservation, minnesota, research

New Year, New Perspectives

By Laurie Allmann | January 5, 2018 |

Photo © Jeni O'Brien. All rights reserved.

Four photographers bring us into other worlds

Filed Under: Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography Tagged With: Photo feature

Swans in the Crosshairs

By Laurie Allmann | October 11, 2017 |

Trumpeter Swan. Image © Dominique Braud

Here in the Mississippi Flyway, both tundra and trumpeter swans are nongame species. A pending USFWS proposal could change that.

Filed Under: Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Resource Management Tagged With: swans

The Calling of Cranes

By Curt Meine | August 29, 2016 |

Sandhill Cranes. Photo © Ted Thousand. Used with permission.

In Baraboo, a telling seasonal dialogue between wild and captive cranes

Filed Under: Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature

Listen: Following the Wings

By Laurie Allmann | June 11, 2015 |

Golden-winged Warbler, photo by Gunnar Kramer

Interviews with researchers leading Minnesota-based migration studies, and highlights of conservation efforts happening at the local and international level.

Filed Under: Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Research Tagged With: birds

Wings and a Prayer

By Laurie Allmann | March 4, 2014 |

Migration of songbirds connects the St. Croix River to Costa Rica, and inspires a poet.

Filed Under: Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Poetry

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