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Great Salt Lake Bird Festival a big success

Last updated Thursday, May 24, 2012 - 9:21pm

FARMINGTON -- Visitors from Australia to New York state attended the 14th annual Great Salt Lake Bird Festival, with 48 of the 53 bird watching field trips selling out.

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Bird songs help science understand human learning

Sandi Doughton The Seattle Times

Last updated Monday, May 21, 2012 - 4:50pm

SEATTLE -- Why wasn't this intruder getting the message?

The lord of the manor had warned him repeatedly to back off, with threatening gestures and loud admonitions. But the trespasser just sat there -- singing.

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Tales of dogs and ducklings and dropping babies on their heads

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Saturday, May 19, 2012 - 6:34pm

OK, folks, quit giving bread to the birds at Beus Pond.

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Peregrine falcons have returned to SLC; see the nest

Standard-Examiner staff Contributed

Last updated Thursday, April 12, 2012 - 6:36pm

SALT LAKE CITY -- Peregrine falcons have used nesting locations in downtown Salt Lake City since 1984. This spring, like most, the falcons are using a nesting box located on the Joseph Smith Memorial Building at South Temple and Main Street. If you're in downtown Salt Lake City, look up -- if you're lucky you might catch a glimpse of these amazing birds.

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More than 10,000 waterfowl die in drought-related outbreak

Damon Arthur, Ryan Sabalow Redding Record Searchlight

Last updated Friday, March 30, 2012 - 2:37pm

At least 10,000 migrating snow geese and other waterfowl have died this spring at drought-plagued Lower Klamath and Tule Lake national wildlife refuges along the Oregon border with California.

Biologists are calling the avian cholera outbreak one of the biggest drought-related die-offs in the refuges' more than 100-year history.

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Great Salt Lake is seen near Antelope Island in 2008.(MATTHEW ARDEN HATFIELD/Standard-Examiner)

Comment on Great Salt Lake management through April 26

Charles F. Trentelman Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, March 29, 2012 - 11:55pm

OGDEN — Miranda Menzies, of Eden, likes to admire the sunset from a rowboat on Great Salt Lake, and because she’d rather not have an oil derrick blocking her view, she’s interested in how Utah manages the lake.

Because of that, she was at Wednesday’s final public presentation of a new management plan for Great Salt Lake that will guide dozens of governmental and private entities for at least the next decade.

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(Courtesy photo) A bird is shown after being injured by repellent gel.

Pigeon repellent gel severely hurting other birds in Utah

Jamie Lampros Standard-Examiner

Last updated Monday, March 19, 2012 - 6:12am

OGDEN -- A repellent gel used to ward off pigeons is causing debilitating harm and even a slow, painful death in birds across Northern Utah.

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GSL Bird Festival registration to begin

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, February 24, 2012 - 10:35pm

FARMINGTON — Registration for the 14th annual Great Salt Lake Bird Festival field trips will begin at 9 a.m. March 1. This year’s festival theme is “Birding as Families.”

In conjunction with this year’s theme, the festival will feature many youth activities, said festival coordinator Neka Roundy.

To register for a field trip, go to www.GreatSaltLakeBirdFest.com beginning March 1.

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Cleanup crews work Wednesday to keep what may be a gasoline spill from reaching a storm drain on the Weber River in Riverdale. (NICHOLAS DRANEY/Standard-Examiner)

Crews containing toxic spill in Weber River in Riverdale

Jesus Lopez Jr. Standard-Examiner

Last updated Thursday, February 9, 2012 - 12:20am

RIVERDALE -- An investigation is under way to find the source of a toxic spill into the Weber River.

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Courtesy photo Woods Cross police
A bald eagle is believed to have hit a power line Sunday in Woods Cross, injuring a wing. It was rescued by police and wildlife officers. The bird died the next morning during surgery.

Bald eagle dies during surgery after sustaining injury in Woods Cross

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner

Last updated Tuesday, February 7, 2012 - 12:33am

WOODS CROSS -- Police and wildlife officers tried to save a bald eagle that likely hit a power line and crashed to the ground Sunday.

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Utah wildlife officials encourage bird feeders

The Associated Press The Associated Press

Last updated Wednesday, January 18, 2012 - 3:12pm

PROVO -- Utah wildlife officials are encouraging residents to help the state's wild birds through the winter by putting out bird food and bird feeders.

The Daily Herald of Provo reports long nights, sub-zero temperatures and winter storms severely limit the food supply.

Division of Wildlife Resources official Ron Stewart says birds need to eat regularly to maintain body heat. He says most move between food sources along a regular daily route.

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Utah wildlife officials encourage bird feeders

Contributed The Associated Press

Last updated Tuesday, January 17, 2012 - 4:47pm

PROVO -- Utah wildlife officials are encouraging residents to help the state's wild birds through the winter by putting out bird food and bird feeders.

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European starlings. Hundreds of these birds died in Clearfield a week before Christmas. (Photo Wikipedia)

Clues emerge in Clearfield bird deaths

Jasen Asay Standard-Examiner

Last updated Friday, January 13, 2012 - 3:03pm

CLEARFIELD -- Utah Division of Wildlife Resources officials now know what caused hundreds of birds to die in Clearfield a week before Christmas; however, there are still several unanswered questions.

Phil Douglass, the DWR conservation outreach manager for Northern Utah, said the toxicology results -- received Wednesday, from birds sent to a lab in Logan -- show the birds died after being exposed to Starlicide, a poison used primarily for starling population control.

"The thing that's tricky about the situation is there are two formulas of this Starlicide. One is commercial grade (used by the government) and the other is public grade, and there is no way of determining what grade it was," Douglass said. "So we know what it was, we just don't know where it came from."

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Students invited to create art for 2012 bird fest exhibit, 2013 promos

Bryon Saxton Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, January 8, 2012 - 12:22am

FARMINGTON — The black-crowned night heron will be the spotlight bird for the 2013 Great Salt Lake Bird Festival, and students from grades K-12 are invited to create a picture of the bird as part of Davis County’s annual student art contest.

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Be kind to your fine feathered friends

Kathy Van Mullekom Daily Press (Newport News, Va.)

Last updated Sunday, January 1, 2012 - 8:43am

If feathered friends are frequent visitors to your yard, here are some easy ways to treat them to healthy winter food, which is important when natural sources are gone.

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