Good News Notes: “The once-endangered Kirtland’s warbler is maintaining healthy numbers. State and federal officials reported Monday on the latest census of the songbird. It nests primarily in Michigan’s Lower Peninsula as well as the Upper Peninsula, Wisconsin and Ontario. The population was estimated at 4,490 following the June survey. That’s down slightly from the…
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After 50-year conservation effort, songbird flies off U.S. endangered species list
Good News Notes: “The Kirtland’s warbler has required protections for as long as there has been an Endangered Species Act (ESA), but that’s about to change.” “In 1971, two years before enactment of the ESA, the Kirtland’s warbler population declined to approximately 201 singing males and was restricted to six counties in the northern part…