Bird & Nature Blog

That's a Wrap: Madison-area Christmas Bird Count 2021

The results from this year include a lot of typical species we see in mid-December, as well as a couple of pleasant surprises and a couple of eye-brow raisers. Below is the list for the birds seen and effort data from the 2021 Madison-area Christmas Bird Count.

Photo by Paul Noeldner

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And this will happen in Wisconsin too...

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And this will happen in Wisconsin too...

Please see this link to the account of 4 (COUNT THEM, FOUR !!!!) Whooping Cranes illegally killed in Oklahoma during the Sandhill Crane hunting season.

Possibly the 4 most unhelpful words in the English language are: I told you so. Any parent can attest to how counter-productive those words are. So let's take the steps needed to never use those in Wisconsin with regard to the inadvertent slaughter of Whooping Cranes.

Photo by Mick Thompson