Minnesota chose the common loon as its state bird in 1961 because lawmakers and bird experts agreed that no other animal ...

Minnesota’s state bird is everywhere: There are loons on license plates and library cards, at lottery counters, and now even on the official state seal. Fireplace mantels across the state sport carved ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Possessing bird feathers could get a person cooped up in prison. The possession of feathers and other parts of native North ...

Minnesota winters can push both people and wildlife to their limits. The cold settles in deeply, snow piles up for months at a time, and the world outside can feel frozen in place. Yet in the middle ...

"This article was prepared at the request of Mr. Carlos Avery, commissioner of the Minnesota state department of fish and game, and was published as here presented, with the exception of the colored ...

For turkey farmer Erica Sawatzke, Thanksgiving was going terribly. It was 2023, and while others were eating their turkey dinners, Sawatzke felt a pit growing in her stomach as her flocks seemed to be ...

Stacker compiled a list of the most common birds seen near feeders in Minnesota using data from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology's Project FeederWatch. Birds are ranked by the percent of sites visited ...