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Hello AVA members and friends.Take advantage of this Great Lakes Audubon Webinar on Native Plants for Birding. Tuesday, 10/19, @ Noon!
You may have already received a similar email from Bob Kemnitz about this “free” webinar. Sounds like a great opportunity to brush up on our local Backyard Birds and their eating habits.
The Christmas Backyard Birding event is rapidly approaching in mid-December. Let’s all sharpen our skills to identify our birds.
Register HERE:
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Fall migration is magical, but it also presents dangerous obstacles to birds. One of the best ways Great Lakes residents can help migrating birds is by planting native plants at home. Join MI Birds, a...
Something to investigate and identify opportunities for AVA project grants to enhance wildlife projects in our area?mucc.org
Sen. Debbie Stabenow has signed onto a bipartisan wildlife conservation bill, the Recovering America’s Wildlife Act, that would dedicate $1.4 billion annually to locally-led efforts to help at-risk ...
Monthly Archives: January 2016
Local USFS Biologist and AVA Friend and Member Honored
Several members of AVA and a representative from Ducks Unlimited gathered on Jan. 7 to say farewell to U.S. Forest Service biologist Paul Thompson. Paul will be leaving the headquarters in Oscoda and transferring to the Cadillac field office. He … Continue reading
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Local Predator Bird at a Hunt
Here are a couple of photos submitted by AVA member Patsy Mortimer. She stated that they are of: “A juvenile sharp-shinned hawk nabbed a mourning dove at our feeder in Hale Jan. 17.” Not all birds eat seeds, but all … Continue reading
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Informational Meeting about the GBBC Feb 3 in Oscoda
One of the announcements made during the January AVA membership meeting was of an upcoming informational talk about the Great Backyard Bird Count. The meeting will be held on February 3rd in Oscoda at the Robert J. Parks Library on … Continue reading
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AVA Meeting presentation – Tawas Pt. State Park Initiatives
Our AVA meeting hosted one of the rangers from Tawas Point State Park, Micah Jordan as speaker. He spoke to a number of infrastructure upgrades scheduled to begin at the Tawas State Dock in downtown east Tawas. This is a three … Continue reading
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2016 is Centennial of the Migratory Bird Treaty
(Note: This information and photo are taken from the Jan. 7, 2016 MDNR news release. See the release on the DNR site for the complete story and further information.) The Michigan Department of Natural Resources, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service … Continue reading
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