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BP Oil Spill Effecting Minnesota Birds

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The spill that keeps on giving – now petroleum compounds and the chemicals used to clean up the oil from BP’s massive spill two years ago in the Gulf of Mexico are showing up in eggs of breeding birds in Minnesota.

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Man Pleads Guilty to Killing Pelicans

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Though he destroyed more than 1,000 nests worth of chicks and eggs of the American White Pelican nearly obliterating a colony on land he rented, a guilty plea by Minnesota farmer Craig Staloch means that he faces, at most, six months in jail.

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What is the State Bird of Rhode Island?

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When I picture state birds, I picture the gorgeous Scissor-tailed Flycatcher of Oklahoma, the pristine white feathers of Alaska’s Willow Ptarmigan , or the haunting call of Minnesota’s Common Loon. ” Best of all, they lay between 150 and 200 eggs per year. I don’t picture chickens.

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Think Outside Of The Nest Box

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I see them all over in marshes in Minnesota but I had never seen a duck use one. I was shocked when I saw a hen Mallard actually incubating eggs in one of these things–they do work…and how do the mallards get in there? If you live near water, you can try some duck nesting tubes. I used to be very skeptical of these.

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Tricolored Blackbird in Trouble in California

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” Blackbirds, among other species, are also killed every year for consuming sunflower seeds mostly in Minnesota and the Dakotas. See Birdchick’s post here.

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How To Help A Baby Bird

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Sometimes females have eggs to lay but no nest and the eggs can end up anywhere from other duck and goose nests…there was even a case in Minnesota where a Canada Goose laid an egg in an Osprey nest and the raptors incubated and hatched it !

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The Traveling Birder

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My current criteria for a dedicated birding trip are having a good probability of seeing several new birds or seeing a birding spectacle ( e.g. , Red Knots and other shorebirds feasting on horseshoe crab eggs in Delaware Bay). Prairie Pothole Region of the United States , primary in North and South Dakota, Minnesota, and Montana.