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“Notes of the Herring Gull and the Caspian Tern.” from the October 1906 Bulletin of the Wisconsin Natural History Society
A link: https://books.google.com/books?id=w_XOAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA113
“Egg Harbor.” from the September 3, 1895 Door County Advocate
So many bears have been seen in this vicinity recently as to justify the belief that “the woods are full of them.”
Some links about piping plovers in Wisconsin
Four links describing their history and efforts to help them.
A single Wilson’s Phalarope was seen on July 27, 2024
They are more commonly encountered further west.
Amphibian Monitoring Report
https://crossroadsatbigcreek.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/CrossroadsFrogMonitoringReport2021-v2.pdf
"April Fool Weather, Skunks, Club Events, News in Ephraim" from the April 6, 1950 Door County Advocate
Apr. 4, and all the month to date has been April Fool's day for we have been having March instead of April weather. Snow and more snow with Palm Sunday…
Although pelicans can eat larger fish than cormorants because they are bigger, they also eat some invertebrates because they are also able…
The part on "Differences in Prey Selection" can be found by entering "65" at the top, so it is 65 / 88.
A 2021 – 2022 study counted mammals at Toft Point, bringing the total to 35 different species
A link: https://diglib.uwgb.edu/digital/api/collection/p17003coll1/id/87/download
Ancient Murrelet from the West Coast photographed off the Stone Quarry
A link to the post: http://www.windowtowildlife.com/ancient-murrelet-at-george-pinney-county-park-in-door-county-wisconsin-on-november-21-2023/
Door County should feel just right to this goose coming south from Greenland or northern Canada
The sightings list: https://web.archive.org/web/20231125192424/https://ebird.org/alert/summary?sid=SN37422
Two species of fish parasites, new to science, were discovered in the Mink River
The fish which carried the parasites in the study were caught in 2018, 2019, and 2022: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10537664/
19 species of bees carrying 13 different kinds of pollen were found at Wequiock Creek Natural Area
This is a study of bees carrying pollen in Brown and Manitowoc counties…
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