Tag: birds

Biologists Help a Pair of Nesting Bald Eagles

PHOENIX — After three consecutive years of failing to fledge its young bald eagles, an important Arizona nest site is back to adding to the growth of the state’s bald eagle population with two nestlings surviving to fledge on their own.
The nest became a challenge for Arizona Game and Fish Department bald eagle biologists when it began to fail at producing young eagles that made it to fledging age after many years of consecutive success. Read more

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“I Found a Baby Bird. What Should I Do With It?”

It’s not unusual to find newly hatched birds in your backyard this time of the year.
Ron Stewart, regional conservation outreach manager for the Division of Wildlife Resources, says young birds often leave their nests before they’re able to fly. “They usually spread out along the branch of a tree and call for their parents to bring food to them,” he says.   While the birds are spread along the branch, it’s not uncommon for a strong wind to blow the birds off the branch and for people to find them on the ground.   If you find a baby bird on the ground, what should you do with it?

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What Matt Morrett Learned from a PhD Gobbler Named Bubba

By Matt Morrett as Told to John E. Phillips

Every cowboy believes he can ride every bull he gets-on, and eachturkey veteran believes that he can take every turkey he hunts. But, PhDgobblers are as crafty and as smart as the bull that’s never been ridden.Matt Morrett is a multi-winner World Champion turkey caller and a professional hunterfor Hunter’s Specialties. One of the PhD gobblers who has learned his craft was a turkey named Bubba. Read more

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Whackos Release Penned Pheasants

Animal-rights whackos claimed  they jumped a barbed-wire fence in Oregon and removed a section of an aviary that held between 75-150 pheasants, “liberating them into the night sky.”   Apparently, the activists believe it is better for the birds to die a slow, painful death by starvation, because anyone that knows anything, knows they will never be able to fend for themselves.  That’s just the way it is.  More on the misdirected whacko initiative here…

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Scotts Pleads Guilty in Tainted Bird Seed Case

Washington –The recent decision by Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. to plead guilty to charges of distributing insecticide-tainted bird seed highlights the need for continued monitoring of the safety of the nation’s bird seed supply, says American Bird Conservancy (ABC), the nation’s leading bird conservation organization. ABC is the only organization to have carried out independent, nationwide bird seed tests. Read more

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Tips for Feeding Wild Birds

HARRISBURG – Feeding songbirds in winter has been an American pastime at least since the days of Henry David Thoreau, who wrote about feeding birds at Walden Pond in the latter 1840s. But Americans have enjoyed watching songbirds clean up our table-scraps and wastegrains even before then.  Here are some tips to keep it safe for the birds. Read more

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