Tag: Great Lakes Echo
New state program encourages Michigan residents to report bat roosts
This article was republished here with permission from Great Lakes Echo.
By Clara Lincolnhol, Great Lakes Echo
The Department of Natural Resources is encouraging residents to report bat roosts. These are the places where bats sleep and raise their babies like chimneys, trees and bridges.
Aquaculture can help local communities, economies and food security, study shows
Due to environmental, species, and economic shifts in the Great Lakes region, aquaculture may be one method to help fill the gap left by a decline in commercial fishing. Read […]
Wildlife changes found on Lake Huron island
This article was republished here with permission from Great Lakes Echo.
By Eric Freedman, Great Lakes Echo
In nature, a lot can change on a largely uninhabited Great Lakes island over the course of a century.
And a lot can stay the same.
New book digs into Indigenous cuisine through archaeology, culture and ecology
This article was republished here with permission from Great Lakes Echo.
By Isabella Figueroa, Great Lakes Echo
In a new book, archeologists who study past societies of the Great Lakes and Midwest agree “you are what you eat,” but they say there’s a lot more to it than that.
White throated sparrow takes first place in fattest bird competition
This article was republished here with permission from Great Lakes Echo.
By Clara Lincolnhol, Great Lakes Echo
A very round white throated sparrow is the heavyweight champion of the 2025 Wisconsin Fat Bird Week contest.
The bird, coined the “spherical white-throated sparrow,” won by a landslide, receiving 72% of the vote in the final round against its nearest competitor, a “rotund ruby-throated hummingbird.”
The winner made it through eight rounds in the single-elimination, March Madness-style bracket competition against seven other birds.