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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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