“A hard-core flock of about a dozen pigeons has returned to an underpass in this northwestern Ontario town, apparently undeterred by the $22,000 spent last year to keep them away.” Read the story Pigeons back in town, despite $22,000 spent in the Brandson Sun
Now that H5N1 has been found in the European Union, Dutch poultry farmers are advised to pen their birds as soon as possible.
“The sooner the better” said Jan Wolleswinkel, from the Dutch Organization for Poultry Farmers (NOP). The group is imposing a rule on the nation’s farmers to pen their birds.
The Netherlands interior minister has already called on farmers to shelter their birds away from possible contact with migratory birds from March 1.
A family of bald eagles has returned to their Llano County, Texas nest site. The group of three adult birds tend to a nest nine miles north of Llano on Texas Highway 29. The adult eagles, two females and one male, have been tending to the nest this season. One eaglet hatched in late January. Excellent photos and nest activity details are captured at Cottonwood Photography.
U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney accidentally shot a hunting companion during a quail hunt this weekend.
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Quite a fowl situation indeed. A retired nurse and insane-person frontwoman, Marian Morris, reportedly saved a chicken’s life by performing “mouth-to-beak” resuscitation on the bird.
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“State biologists counted 244 eagles during an aerial survey of a 180-mile stretch of the river this month, compared with 117 eagles last year.” Read the story Bald eagle population rebounds in Lower Wisconsin River valley at ABC 7 Chicago.
Florida Gulf Coast University ornithologist Jerome A. Jackson states, “Even a cursory comparison of this figure with [photographs and illustrations of real Ivory-billed Woodpeckers] shows that the white on the wing of the bird is too extensive to be that of an Ivory-billed Woodpecker.”
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Officials in Fort Worth, Texas tried laser lights, fog, cannon and firecrackers shot out of guns to scare the large grackle population away. The flocks are considered a public nuisance because they are loud and messy. Now the city has hired hawk Blackjack to scare off the birds that remain. Read the story Hawks recruited to fight downtown grackles in the Dallas Star-Telegram.
Two bald eagles began building a nest in Cuyahoga Valley National Park in Ohio in mid-January. Last year, Ohio recorded 136 eaglets from a record 125 nests. Read Bob Downing’s story Bald eagles have landed in park in the Akron Beacon Journal.
The spread of salmonellosis among back yard birds in Michigan has the state’s Department of Natural Resources asking citizens to stop filling bird feeders for two weeks. The department has asked residents to remove their backyard feeders and disinfect them with bleach. Read more Keith Gave’s story Birds dying up north; DNR needs your help on Mlive.
