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The Soundscapes of Xeno-canto

By Laurie Allmann | February 15, 2023 |

Auditory encounters in wild and remote places

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Audio, Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature

The Crows of Ann Arbor

By Laurie Allmann | January 16, 2022 |

A sight to behold

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Research, Uncategorized

Where Sandhills Gather

By Tomy O'Brien | June 13, 2021 |

A photographic journey to Crex Meadows & Bosque del Apache

Filed Under: An Agate Original, Birds, Homepage Bottom Features, Homepage Top Feature, Photography, wildlife

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

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