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November 12, 2025

Bird hunting in Minnesota takes backseat to deer, but quality hunting is ahead

Every year, when the firearms deer season opens like it did last Saturday, bird-hunting participation across Minnesota plummets.
Indeed, many of the state’s waterfowl, pheasant, and ruffed grouse hunters take to their deer stands, with many, state officials say, casing their shotguns for good until next season.
Bird hunting in November and December can be some of the year’s best and most exciting – despite the onset of wintry elements.

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Every goose poops: role in transporting bacteria studied

Like the wonderful children’s book reminds us, “everybody poops,” and Canada geese are no exception.
The Illinois Natural History Survey’s Forbes Biological Station and the Wildlife Veterinary Epidemiology Laboratory at the University of Illinois have worked with DNR over the past few years to examine the bacterial communities of temperate-nesting Canada geese.

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Snake Fungal Disease imperils Illinois’ smallest rattlesnake

In 2010, Illinois Natural History Survey Director Mike Dreslik found something strange on the road. It was a massasauga rattlesnake, an endangered species in Illinois, and its head was deformed, covered in strange sores. He called up his friend Matt Allender, a wildlife epidemiologist.
“I was thinking I was going just to find a smushed head from hits by cars, and what we found was not at all that,” Allender recalled.

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