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MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - Many runners and joggers are on high alert this time of year as Red-winged blackbirds enter defense ...
Red-winged blackbirds are arriving all over Wisconsin, a sign of spring. The noisy bird will be here until fall. The noisy birds are returning for their spring breeding season.
University of Wisconsin Wildlife Ecology Professor Emeritus Stanley Temple said Red-winged Blackbirds are actually one of the most common birds in North America with millions of them across the ...
The Wisconsin winter of 2023-24 was so warm in temperature and so low in snowfall that species such as cranes and geese were only ... mallard ducks, American woodcock, red-winged blackbird, ...
And unlike the robin or the blackbird, cranes dance. The big birds are posing a conundrum, though, to this notion of symbolizing spring. They are returning to Wisconsin earlier and earlier.
As warmer temperatures return to Wisconsin, so do the birds. Migratory species are making their way back to the state after spending the winter down south, and the Wehr Nature Center in Franklin ...
WINONA, Minn. (AP) -- Some residents of a small town in western Wisconsin are suing the owners of a nearby farm who use propane-fueled cannons to protect their corn crop from blackbirds.
No bird is too big to escape attack by red-winged blackbirds rigorously defending their territory. Whether it's humans walking by on a path or turkeys feeding nearby, these two-ounce tyrants don't ...
An estimated 500 red-winged blackbirds and starlings were found dead in Louisiana, a local newspaper reported – just a few days and a short distance away from where thousands more plummeted to ...
Nearly 8,000 voters weighed in on the race to find Wisconsin's floofiest fowl — its most ample avian — its chonkiest chirper. ... blackbirds, warblers and finches.