Wild Places, Wild Birds
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Learn and enjoy as Wild Places, Wild Birds creates educational content about our world, its natural systems, ecology, history, and future. And the beauty that is still there. Unless otherwise noted, all photos in original posts are by brianTmurphy(me).
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Updated twice each week, a selection of news reports, articles, photography, videos, and conservation resources focused on wild birds and wild places. The health of ecosystems and wild bird population...
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November 29, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Just throwing this out there as I build the Wild Places, Wild Birds magazine.
Some #birdsontheground from the eastern #UpperPenninsula of #Michigan
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November 11, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Some #birdsontheground from the eastern #UpperPenninsula of #Michigan
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November 3, 2025 at 2:28 AM
American Black Ducks enjoying a hole in da ice, mouth of the Chocolay River, Marquette, MI. March 10, 2025 #birds #michigan #greatlakes #lakesuperior #ducks
March 17, 2025 at 8:38 PM
American Black Ducks enjoying a hole in da ice, mouth of the Chocolay River, Marquette, MI. March 10, 2025 #birds #michigan #greatlakes #lakesuperior #ducks
Herring Gull #birds patiently waiting for mate along the icy shores of Lake Superior. We have about 600 gulls about to nest on the offshore rock islands. Marquette, MI. #nature #greatlakes #gulls
March 17, 2025 at 8:31 PM
Herring Gull #birds patiently waiting for mate along the icy shores of Lake Superior. We have about 600 gulls about to nest on the offshore rock islands. Marquette, MI. #nature #greatlakes #gulls
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Big fan of this headline: Meet the Women Rescuing Whales in California 🐋
Meet the Women Rescuing Whales in California
A Monterey nonprofit’s "whale ambulance" helps entangled whales
www.sierraclub.org
February 4, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Big fan of this headline: Meet the Women Rescuing Whales in California 🐋
Finally caught up with this SORA at the bog walk in Marquette this past spring. "The most abundant, widely distributed North American rail, it breeds and winters in freshwater marshes dominated by emergent vegetation, but it also occurs in brackish coastal marshes during migration."-Birds of World
November 29, 2024 at 2:51 AM
Finally caught up with this SORA at the bog walk in Marquette this past spring. "The most abundant, widely distributed North American rail, it breeds and winters in freshwater marshes dominated by emergent vegetation, but it also occurs in brackish coastal marshes during migration."-Birds of World
Spruce Grouse captured at Whitefish Point, Michigan, 10/21/24
"... a beautiful bird that occurs in taiga and montane coniferous forests throughout northern portions of North America. Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark expedition described the Spruce Grouse as “gentle”'-Birds of the World #birds
"... a beautiful bird that occurs in taiga and montane coniferous forests throughout northern portions of North America. Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark expedition described the Spruce Grouse as “gentle”'-Birds of the World #birds
November 23, 2024 at 1:50 AM
Spruce Grouse captured at Whitefish Point, Michigan, 10/21/24
"... a beautiful bird that occurs in taiga and montane coniferous forests throughout northern portions of North America. Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark expedition described the Spruce Grouse as “gentle”'-Birds of the World #birds
"... a beautiful bird that occurs in taiga and montane coniferous forests throughout northern portions of North America. Meriwether Lewis of the Lewis and Clark expedition described the Spruce Grouse as “gentle”'-Birds of the World #birds
Searching for explanations on the extreme heat in 2023 and 2024. Very little in nature is simple. #nature #environment #climate
Charting the Exceptional, Unexpected Heat of 2023 and 2024
Global temperatures have soared in recent years and climate scientists are trying to understand why.
earthobservatory.nasa.gov
November 20, 2024 at 2:56 AM
Searching for explanations on the extreme heat in 2023 and 2024. Very little in nature is simple. #nature #environment #climate
November 20, 2024 at 1:35 AM
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Wildfires are now up to 4x larger and 3x more frequent than in the 1980s-90s. Climate change, past land management, and human activities are reshaping fire behavior and increasing risks.
https://buff.ly/48H87cC
#wildfires #environment #climate
https://buff.ly/48H87cC
#wildfires #environment #climate
Why wildfires started by human activities can be more destructive and harder to contain
The US has seen huge wildfires in recent years, and 2024 is no exception. The vast majority of those that affect communities are started by human activity.
buff.ly
November 13, 2024 at 11:48 AM
Wildfires are now up to 4x larger and 3x more frequent than in the 1980s-90s. Climate change, past land management, and human activities are reshaping fire behavior and increasing risks.
https://buff.ly/48H87cC
#wildfires #environment #climate
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#wildfires #environment #climate
A beautiful Dunlin strutting along a break wall in northern Michigan. He left X behind, and now, so have I. The Nature Page will soon bring you gobs of interesting news, facts, beauty, and fun about our natural world. Brian
November 20, 2024 at 1:18 AM
A beautiful Dunlin strutting along a break wall in northern Michigan. He left X behind, and now, so have I. The Nature Page will soon bring you gobs of interesting news, facts, beauty, and fun about our natural world. Brian