Audubon Society to host presentation on Kirtland’s Warbler
Metro Wire Staff
A special presentation on a bird recently taken off the endangered list is planned for March 18.
The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service recently announced that Kirtland’s Warblers no longer warrant protection under the Federal Endangered Species Act, according to a news release from the Aldo Leopold Audubon Society.
The songbird met recovery goals after years of intensive habitat management, mostly in lower Michigan, where the core population lives. But the ALAS said the bird’s numbers in Wisconsin “do not yet meet the criteria for removal” from the State of Wisconsin’s endangered and threatened species list.
The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources and other groups are working with U.S. Fish & Wildlife to “continue to bolster Wisconsin’s small but growing population of this iconic bird and the habitat on which it relies.”
Davin Lopez, from the DNR’s Bureau of Natural Heritage Conservation, will present “Kirtland’s Warbler Flies off Federal Endangered Species List” at 7 p.m. on March 18 at the Lincoln Center, 1519 Water St.
Lopez will include in his presentation details on public and private forestry groups are managing timber plantations in ways that are favorable to the species, particularly in Adams and Marinette Counties.
The presentation is free and open to the public.