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Grants can help landowners create habitat in W.Va.

Mon, 20 May 2013 02:07:04 -0400

MORGANTOWN, West Virginia - West Virginia landowners who want to apply for grants to improve wildlife habitat have until June 14 to contact the Natural Resources Conservation Service.

Black flies at Wis. refuge plague whooping cranes

Sun, 19 May 2013 18:34:23 -0400

MILWAUKEE - Experts say swarms of black flies appear to be the best explanation for why endangered whooping cranes are abandoning their nests at a Wisconsin wildlife refuge.

Plans would turn naturalist's home into refuge

Sun, 19 May 2013 04:04:14 -0400

OLD LYME, Connecticut - Tucked amid hardwood forest off Route 156, a modest white house with doors and windows covered with plywood awaits its transformation into a kind of entryway into the world of Roger Tory Peterson.

Boulder County 'osprey cam' knocked off the air

Sat, 18 May 2013 13:00:25 -0400

LONGMONT, Colorado - A rainstorm appears to have knocked the popular Boulder County Fairgrounds "osprey cam" off the air.

NH walk focuses on migratory birds

Sat, 18 May 2013 06:13:26 -0400

GORHAM, New Hampshire - Early risers are celebrating International Migratory Bird Day with a guided walk in the White Mountain National Forest.

Bald eagle found dead at Okla. motel

Fri, 17 May 2013 19:57:30 -0400

SALLISAW, Oklahoma - U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service officers are working to learn the circumstances under which a bald eagle died.

Endangered Hawaiian hawks found shot on Big Island

Thu, 16 May 2013 14:16:09 -0400

HONOLULU - Two endangered Hawaiian hawks were found wounded on the Big Island after apparently being shot with a pellet gun, and federal wildlife officials want to know who is responsible.

Vt. closes trails and cliffs near falcon nests

Thu, 16 May 2013 11:18:43 -0400

MONTPELIER, Vermont - The Vermont Department of Fish and Wildlife says 10 cliffs and hiking trails across the state are closed to protect peregrine falcon nesting areas.

Crews to move osprey next from utility pole

Wed, 15 May 2013 20:17:19 -0400

BERLIN TOWNSHIP, Michigan - DTE Energy and state Natural Resources crews want to move a nesting pair of ospreys from a utility pole near Rockwood Landfill in Monroe County's Berlin Township to a safer perch nearby.

Bend tries nonlethal methods for goose control

Tue, 14 May 2013 18:15:32 -0400

BEND, Oregon - Park managers in Bend are using a mix of egg oiling, hazing and possibly a youngster roundup to keep the number of geese - and the amount of goose poop - down at parks around town.

Peacock attacks 2-year-old girl at Albuquerque zoo

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:51:36 -0400

ALBUQUERQUE, New Mexico - The Albuquerque zoo says it doesn't plan to cage its peacocks but does plan to put up more warning signs in the wake of an attack on a 2-year-old girl.

Fighting eagles crash land on Minn. airport runway

Tue, 14 May 2013 14:41:13 -0400

DULUTH, Minnesota - Two bald eagles locked together by their talons in a midair battle survived a crash landing onto a runway at a northeastern Minnesota airport.

Mass. bald eagle count finds 30 active nests

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:52:17 -0400

GREENFIELD, Massachusetts - The state Division of Fisheries and Wildlife says its first bald eagle nesting survey has verified 30 active nests in the state.

AP IMPACT: Wind farms get pass on eagle deaths

Tue, 14 May 2013 10:30:47 -0400

CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyoming - It's the not-so-green secret of the nation's wind-energy boom: Spinning turbines are killing thousands of federally protected birds, including eagles, each year.

Osprey nest on Albany light pole to be moved

Tue, 14 May 2013 09:59:20 -0400

ALBANY, Oregon - The city of Albany plans to move an osprey nest that has been built on top of a 60-foot light pole at a softball field.

Police: Pickup truck driver runs down goslings

Tue, 14 May 2013 07:06:09 -0400

WATERFORD TOWNSHIP, Michigan - Police say a pickup truck driver ran down several Canada Goose babies that were attempting to cross a suburban Detroit roadway.

AP IMPACT: Wind farms gets pass on eagle deaths

Tue, 14 May 2013 03:29:43 -0400

CONVERSE COUNTY, Wyoming - The Obama administration has never fined or prosecuted a wind farm for killing eagles and other protected bird species, shielding the industry from liability and helping keep the scope of the deaths secret, an Associated Press investigation has found.

Army won't kill gulls to help salmon-eating terns

Mon, 13 May 2013 18:14:31 -0400

GRANTS PASS, Oregon - The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers said Monday it will not continue killing gulls that have been eating baby Caspian terns at the West Coast's largest nesting colony, located at the mouth of the Columbia River.

Burlington solar project offers power, publicity

Sun, 12 May 2013 14:47:56 -0400

BURLINGTON, Iowa - A familiar landmark on Burlington's riverfront soon will draw its power from the sun.

Bird-watchers flock to Ohio's Lake Erie shoreline

Sat, 11 May 2013 14:59:44 -0400

OAK HARBOR, Ohio - Dedicated bird-watchers have long known that the place to be in early May is along Ohio's Lake Erie coast where several hundred species of birds stop at the marshes and rocky shoreline to rest and refuel.

Indiana may remove falcon from endangered list

Sat, 11 May 2013 12:17:04 -0400

INDIANAPOLIS - Indiana wildlife officials could remove the peregrine falcon from the state's endangered species list this summer after what wildlife officials say has been a successful recovery.

State to public: Share Lake McConaughy with birds

Sat, 11 May 2013 09:05:04 -0400

OGALLALA, Nebraska - State wildlife officials are asking the public to share the sandy shores of Lake McConaughy in western Nebraska with endangered birds.

Feds approve developer's species conservation plan

Fri, 10 May 2013 17:11:15 -0400

LEBEC, California - Federal wildlife officials on Friday approved a habitat conservation plan by the Tejon Ranch Co. to build a master-planned community and maintain its sprawling lands while taking steps to minimize impact to the endangered California condor and 24 other animals and plants.

Pa. man has close encounter with wayward emu

Fri, 10 May 2013 12:37:42 -0400

WALNUTPORT, Pennsylvania - An eastern Pennsylvania man says when he looked out his kitchen window earlier this week, he saw what he first thought was a huge wild turkey.

Idaho delegation backs "Race the Joe"

Thu, 09 May 2013 17:59:30 -0400

BOISE, Idaho - Three members of Idaho's congressional delegation are asking the U.S. Coast Guard to reconsider its decision to deny permits to organizers of a jet boat race in northern Idaho.