March 24, 2009

Rockport, Texas (AP) – Wildlife managers are worried that some of the whooping cranes wintering at Aransas National Wildlife Refuge may be too weak and malnourished to successfully make their return to Canada this season. The drought has had an effect on the flock of whooping cranes that spends each winter on the Texas Gulf […]

Walhalla, S.C. (AP) – A South Carolina man hunting for hogs has died after he was shot by another hunter in his party. Oconee County Coroner Karl Addis told the Anderson Independent-Mail that 28-year-old Adam Becker of Walhalla was shot once in the abdomen with a shotgun and bled to death Saturday morning. Addis says

Keokuk – Tens of thousands of migrating lesser scaup [bluebill] ducks are currently visiting Iowa wetlands as they surge northward toward Canadian nesting areas.  One of the migration’s most important stopovers is Pool 19 of theMississippi River. Swarming here from winter resorts in Texas, Louisiana, and Cuba, the birds arrive to refuel on abundant populations

Pickford, Mich. (AP) – A young bald eagle, suffering from West Nile Virus, was captured in August 2002 from the parking lot of a car dealership in Pickford. With a lot of help, the nearly dead eagle survived, learned to fly again, was released and flew off to make history. “Patty,”as she became known, taught

The Kansas Department of Wildlife and Parks reports a total of 10 chronic wasting disease (CWD) occurrences from among almost 2,700 deer tissue samples collected and submitted for lab analysis by KDWP in recent months. Eight of the CWD-positive deer tissue samples had been reported earlier by KDWP, and two additional “positives” were recently confirmed