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The Owls of Summer Continue to Confound
The Great Horned Owl banded during the 2021 summer season at WPBO. The summer of 2021 represented the fifteenth full season of summer owl research at WPBO. As was the case in 2020, the owls again demonstrated [...]
Whitefish Point Hosts Three Piping Plover Nests
The summer of 2021 was another successful year for Piping Plovers at Whitefish Point. For only the third time, there were multiple Piping Plover nests at the Point, with three present this season. Plover breeding activity began in mid-May [...]
Community Spotlight: April Campbell
What first inspired your involvement in birding? I grew up on a former dairy farm in rural Connecticut. Our home backed up to a state park, so, essentially, we had no neighbors. My siblings and I spent our days [...]
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Resources and Recommended Reading For Addressing Diversity and Race in Michigan Audubon Chapters
Finney, C. 2014. Black Faces, White Spaces: Reimagining the Relationship of African Americans to the Great Outdoors. University of North Carolina Press. Chapel Hill. Giltner, S. E. 2008. Hunting and Fishing in the New South: Black Labor and White [...]
Spring Fling Canceled for 2022
In light of concerns about the potential impact of the continued spread of COVID-19 variants and their effects on local businesses in Paradise, Mich., Whitefish Point Bird Observatory leadership has decided to again not hold our traditional Spring Fling [...]
Winter Birding Tours Announced
Winter Birding in the Eastern U.P. January 22–23 & February 12–13 Are you anxious to see a Canada Jay? Hoping to check the Northern Hawk Owl off your list? Then join Michigan Audubon and our birding guide, Darrell Lawson, [...]
Lindsay’s Virtual Big Year Inches Toward 300 Species
I didn’t hit my 300 species goal in October, but I’m very excited that I’m only one species short as I start November! I was able to add four new species to my list. As the year proceeds, adding [...]
A Plea From the Anishinaabek People: Keep the Sandhill Crane OFF the Game Species List in Michigan
The Anishinaabe are a group of culturally related indigenous peoples present in the Great Lakes region of Canada and the United States. Just two days after Indigenous Peoples Day, Michigan's Anishinaabek Caucus joined more than 50 other Michigan-based [...]
An Update on SR 20: A State Resolution To Designate the Sandhill Crane a Game Species and Remove Migratory Bird Protections
The Natural Resources Commission hears a presentation by the DNR on Sandhill Cranes. 10/14/21 At the Michigan Natural Resources Commission (NRC) meeting on Oct. 14, 2021, Barb Avers, a DNR staff member, presented the 7-member commission with [...]
Lindsay’s Virtual Big Year Nears 300 Species
September was not as fruitful as I was hoping in terms of adding species to my big year list. I was able to add nine new species this month. Additionally, the Ash-throated Flycatcher from August was also approved and [...]