The Iowa Department of Natural Resources is seeking feedback on its 25-year wildlife action plan, which must be reviewed every 10 years per federal law. The action plan, according to DNR, is a strategy for how the department will conserve wildlife in the state. It was last updated and reviewed in 2015, but was initially […]
Birds
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Like all of us, ‘birds suffer from lack of being seen.’ Good thing Iowa has a century-old bird club.
Founded in 1923, the Iowa Ornithologists’ Union (IOU) has endured for a century as one of Iowa’s most prominent organizations dedicated to avian wildlife. Through organizing field trips to participating in the Christmas Bird Count to partnerships with the Iowa Audubon and Iowa Young Birders, the IOU wants people to care about birds. “I’m not […]
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Get to know your avian neighbors and explore Iowa City parks on Green Iowa’s Neighborhood Bird Walks
Many in Iowa City who felt their inner birdwatcher awaken this spring as hundreds of American white pelicans descended on the Iowa River may have felt a little let down when the pelicans only stayed for a few weeks before moving on. But an ongoing summer program gives birders and the bird-curious a chance to […]
Posted inCentral Iowa
Des Moines has a big, honkin’ problem. As officials seek solutions, Iowa’s dominant goose species adapts to city life
Growing up in West Des Moines, I became familiar with geese very quickly. They chased me on my bike, pooped all over the trail and flapped their wings menacingly at my brother and I as we walked our nervous dog. Like many a suburban child, I learned that geese were not my friends. They were […]
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A quick guide to birdwatching in eastern Iowa
2020 has been a fraught and fractious year. It seems like every morning we wake to find ourselves beset by a new calamity demanding our full attention. While it is our duty as decent human beings and good citizens to be informed and to put our minds and bodies to the task of creating a […]
