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The University of Minnesota Crookston’s Student Chapter of The Wildlife Society along with faculty, staff, and other students cleared over 35 acres of bushland habitat in the Palmville Wildlife Management Area (WMA) in Roseau County last month. “It’s the labs that provide the hands-on learning experience that convinced me to come to Crookston,” said David […]
The 49th annual Crookston Christmas Bird Count was held on Saturday, December 19. This year, due to COVID restrictions and protocols, the count was not advertised ahead of time for extra volunteers, and veteran participants were contacted and assigned specific portions of the count circle. Counters were limited to one individual or one family pod
Submitted by Tom Fiero The 48th annual Crookston Christmas Bird Count held on Saturday, December 14th was a record breaker! Thanks to the 22 individuals who braved the brutal cold or watched their bird feeders. The Christmas Bird Count is coordinated by the National Audubon Society and the Minnesota Ornithologist Union. The volunteers counted birds
On October 1, John Loegering, professor of natural resources at the University of Minnesota Crookston, was recognized as a Fellow of The Wildlife Society Fellows Award (TWS). With the award, Loegering joins a prestigious and distinctive group of professionals with a legacy of service and a wealth of contributions to the wildlife ecology and management
Local efforts are part of a much wider effort in assisting with the conservation of birds and their habitats through demographic monitoring. The Monitoring Avian Productivity and Survival Program (MAPS) is a network of stations that capture, band, and re-capture breeding birds at over 1200 locations in North America. The MAPS station is located at
