Why is the loon Minnesota’s state bird? It almost didn’t happen.
Spotify Minnesota’s state bird is everywhere: There are loons on license plates and library cards, at lottery counters, and ...
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Finally, the bald eagle is our national bird. Here is the history of the symbol
The bald eagle became the United States national bird on Dec. 24 ... The bald eagle almost did not survive to become our national symbol. Overhunting nearly wiped out the bald eagle in the ...
The Indianapolis Star19d
Bird flu has been spreading worldwide. What's the threat? Here's what the CDC recommends.
A subtype of bird flu caused by avian influenza A (H5) virus has been spreading worldwide in wild birds with a few outbreaks in poultry, dairy cows and other mammals across the United States ...
Detroit Free Press19d
Most birds adapted to spending winter in Michigan can handle below-zero cold
As temperatures plummet to below zero across Michigan this week, backyard bird enthusiasts who enjoy watching and feeding their feathered visitors may wonder how, or if, they can withstand the ...
Healthline20d
How to Increase Your Red Blood Cell Count
Eating foods high in key nutrients, including iron, folic acid, and vitamin B12, and limiting alcohol may help increase your red blood cell count. Red blood cells are the most common cells in ...
National Catholic Register21d
Cardinal Dolan Reminds the Nation of the Preeminence of Prayer
Cardinal Timothy Dolan put both his rhetorical gifts and his thorough knowledge of U.S. history to good use in giving the invocation at the 60th presidential inauguration. His public speaking ...
RTE Online21d
Third bird flu case detected in Ireland since December
It comes as an Avian Influenza Prevention Zone was introduced in Northern Ireland on Saturday following three confirmed cases of bird flu in wild birds in three different countries. Since early ...
Catholic News Agency21d
Cardinal Dolan, Father Mann among clergy leading President Trump’s inaugural prayers
Cardinal Timothy Dolan of the Archdiocese of New York and Father Frank Mann of the Diocese of Brooklyn opened and closed the prayers of invocation and benediction, respectively, at the ...
BirdWatching Daily on MSN21d
17 Birds with Red Heads (with original photography)
You saw a striking bird with a red head, did you? You wonder what it is. That shouldn't be too hard to figure out, should it? How many kinds of birds with red heads could there possibly be? In the ...
The New York Times22d
On a Cold, Dark Inauguration Day, a Message From the Birds
Male cardinals’ vibrant red color ... to make this world even less hospitable to birds and everybody else, it turns out I am less interested in symbolic associations than in practicalities.
National Catholic Register22d
Cardinal Müller Calls ‘Conclave’ Film Hitlerian ‘Anti-Christian Propaganda’
VATICAN CITY — Cardinal Gerhard Müller has decried the recent Hollywood movie Conclave as “anti-Christian propaganda” that could have been produced “in the time of Hitler or Stalin.” ...