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1 week ago |
bemidjipioneer.com | Blane Klemek
By now, everyone knows that migrant songbirds and other migrant wild birds have returned to our neck of the woods. Whether you live on the prairie and are enjoying the songs of meadowlarks, are nestled deep in the forest surrounded by vocalizing ovenbirds or live in town amongst an assortment of avian songsters, the songs and calls of birds of every feather are omnipresent once again. What a wonderful time of year it is.
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2 weeks ago |
bemidjipioneer.com | Blane Klemek
Up close and personal encounters with blue jays are always a treat for me. The skittish species rarely gives us opportunities to view them at close range, so I was thrilled when one such bird recently afforded me the chance to watch it going about its natural activities, unaware of me standing a few feet away. Intent on foraging, the blue jay was focused on hunting for insects.
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3 weeks ago |
bemidjipioneer.com | Blane Klemek
Twenty-something odd years ago, observing a cottontail rabbit here in the Northland was an oddity, especially in the countryside and forest. It seems there were always cottontail rabbits in towns, but I’d be hard pressed to remember noticing them inhabiting northern Minnesota’s vast forests. Not so, today.
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1 month ago |
bemidjipioneer.com | Blane Klemek
Wood ducks and a handful of other species of waterfowl are cavity nesters. Buffleheads, common goldeneyes, common mergansers and hooded mergansers are other duck species that nest in tree cavities, too. And what’s more, all these species of ducks will use artificial nesting boxes as well. But it’s the wood duck that has benefited the most from artificial nest boxes, also called "wood duck houses." Wood ducks were a species in trouble at the turn of the 20th century.
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1 month ago |
bemidjipioneer.com | Blane Klemek
The wild turkey is one of the most impressive and uniquely North American avian species. Native to this continent, wild turkeys are found throughout all states except Alaska. In the 1960s, the subspecies Rio Grande turkey from Texas was translocated to the Hawaiian Islands and released. Today, nearly 20,000 Rio Grande turkeys flourish on all six islands. And though wild turkeys are considered native to this continent, there is one species of wild turkey that’s like no other.
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