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October 15, 2025

Rare bird species arrive for birding group gathering in New York

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The purple gallinule was a nice touch.
As birders from across New York flocked to Ithaca last month, the committee for this year’s New York State Ornithological Association conference had a lot of work to do – arrange speakers, book venues, coordinate volunteers for two dozen field trips. And they had a little extra help to send home some attendees with a lifelong memory.

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Wisconsin hunter takes ‘bear of a lifetime’ in Rusk County

Featured, Home Page News, Hunting, National Hunting, National News, News, Wisconsin /

The right place at the right time.
That’s where Kim Penney found herself on a recent black bear hunt in Rusk County, Wis. The Waupaca resident shot a male bear Sept. 17 – her first bear – that tipped the scale at well over 500 pounds. Penney said she’s glad she passed on a much smaller bear earlier on the same trip.

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Gretchen Steele: October’s quiet magic now playing across Illinois

Featured, Fishing, Hunting, Illinois, National Fishing, National Hunting, Nature Page & Night Sky /

October doesn’t exactly arrive in southern Illinois – it drifts in, slow and sure, like the morning fog rising off the river bottoms.
One week you’re still swatting mosquitoes and cutting grass, and the next, you’re pulling on a flannel before daylight and smelling wood smoke in the air. Somewhere between the last hum of cicadas and the first rustle of dry leaves, we turn the corner.

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