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Blackpoll warblers (male top, female bottom) fly up to 10,700 km between their winter and summer homes.

Back from South America for the summer

Warblers fly from Churchill to the Carolinas, then non-stop over the ocean for 2-1/2 days

By University Of Guelph May 7, 2019

University of Guelph biologists have tracked an annual migration of up to 20,000 kilometres made by the 12-gram blackpoll warbler, one of the fastest declining songbirds in North America. The bird’s trek between its breeding grounds in the central and western boreal forest of North America and its winter home in the Amazon Basin is

(Stephen Ausmus photo courtesy ARS/USDA)

Livestock

Poultry at risk for avian flu during migration

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 29, 2016

Cases of avian flu in commercial poultry in the U.S. and Mexico earlier this year are believed to have come from wild birds, which are now migrating north for the season, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency warned Friday. Avian influenza spreads when wild birds come into contact with commercial/small flocks, the agency said, urging producers

A ruby-throated hummingbird is handled by a researcher prior to being released.

Did you know?, News

Older hummingbirds better prepared

Lengthy annual migration reveals profound differences between young birds and the more experienced ones

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff April 4, 2016

The small, but mighty ruby-throated hummingbird flies 2,000 km on its migratory journeys without a break, researchers report in the journal The Auk: Ornithological Advances. New research provides some of the first details of the hummingbird’s annual fall journey from the eastern United States to Central America. It shows that their fall migration peaks in

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Monarch population rebounds, still well off highs

By GFM Network News, Jon Herskovitz February 26, 2016

Austin, Tex. | Reuters — North America’s monarch butterflies are on a rebound and the number of the plucky orange and black creatures, which gather in Mexico before flying north to Canada, could soon stand at around 150 million, a new survey showed on Feb. 26. The survey from a scientist at Natural Resources Defense

Livestock

U.S. may kill poultry with heat stress to stop bird flu

By GFM Network News, Tom Polansek September 18, 2015

Chicago | Reuters –– U.S. agriculture officials seeking ways to control deadly bird flu have approved the use of a method to kill poultry by turning up the heat in their barns and shutting off ventilation systems. The Agriculture Department will consider using the method, condemned by animal rights groups as cruel, if there are

Livestock

Avian flu risk higher with fall migrations

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff September 15, 2015

Poultry farmers in Ontario are being warned to keep biosecurity top of mind as wild birds get ready to fly south this fall. “With the fall weather quickly approaching, resulting in colder temperatures and wild bird migrations, the threat of re-emergence of (highly pathogenic avian influenza) is real,” the Feather Board Command Centre, the emergency

Local news

Rural Manitoba struggles with population growth

Retired statistician maps out future of labour market

By Meghan Mast November 21, 2014

Looming labour shortages due to mass migration to and around cities have made rural development much more difficult than it used to be, according to a retired statistician. While rural populations in Manitoba overall are still growing by .6 per cent, since 1996, places farther away from Brandon, Winnipeg and Winkler are not faring as

Daily Network News

B.C. ostriches culled, CFIA confirms

U.S. livestock: Cattle, hogs end week on high note

U.S. grains: Soybeans bounce as Chinese demand assessed, wheat drops

Tag Archives migration

Back from South America for the summer

Poultry at risk for avian flu during migration

Older hummingbirds better prepared

Monarch population rebounds, still well off highs

U.S. may kill poultry with heat stress to stop bird flu

Avian flu risk higher with fall migrations

Rural Manitoba struggles with population growth

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