Celebrating birds and Houston’s importance as a migration hotspot
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HOUSTON, March 30, 2022 /3BL Media/ — Discovery Green, the 12-acre park in downtown Houston, will be celebrating Green Mountain Energy Earth Day on Sunday, April 10, 2022, from 12 – 5 p.m. in partnership with Citizens’ Environmental Coalition. The event will feature a full lineup of programming to celebrate birds and Houston’s importance as a migration hotspot.
Habitat loss, whether through natural or man-made causes, is one of the main triggers for the extinction of migratory birds and a main topic for this year’s World Migratory Bird Day, on May 10th. The boreal forest near Goldcorp’s Musselwhite Mine, 480 kilometres north of Thunder Bay, Ontario is characterized by fast-growing deciduous trees and slow-growing conifers. Its harsh winters and short, productive summers make it a breeding destination for many migrating birds, including the Common Nighthawk, currently listed as threatened under Canada's Species at Risk Act.
ALMA, Mich., March 3, 2017 /3BL Media/ – Local Cub Scouts this past weekend built a nesting platform they hope will entice a pair of osprey away from using an electric utility pole for their nest site.
“I asked my nephews who are members of Cub Scout Troop 3600 from the Breckenridge area if they and their scouting friends would be interested in helping give ospreys a safe place to nest,” said Darrel O’Boyle, low voltage distribution designer for Consumers Energy. “About five of the Scouts finished making the nesting platform on Saturday in about three hours.”
GM committed to earn Wildlife Habitat Council conservation certification at each of its manufacturing sites around the world by 2020. The company believes the key to progress is taking a customized, regional approach to use corporate lands and collaborative partnerships to restore, protect and promote biodiversity.
GM now has 63 certified sites, seven of which are in five countries throughout Asia. Here’s how the company introduced the wildlife habitat commitment there and quickly ramped up its efforts.
On a bright, crisp, fall day the light goes on in a first time visitor’s mind:
“Oh! So…for birds, this place is like the rest areas that we have on the freeway? I get it now. They must have places like this along their way or they’ll run out of energy.”
A ranger responds, “And migrant birds are not simply on vacations. These journeys are all about survival. Entire species are threatened when we don’t preserve a place like this.”
A recent partnership between TransCanada and 4-H Canada brings the importance of birds and bats into focus.
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When we think about pollinators, what comes to mind? Bees? Butterflies?
Did you know that birds and bats also play an important role in ensuring reproduction of wildflowers through pollination? In fact, out of the 200,000 species of animals that act as pollinators, approximately 1,000 are hummingbirds, bats and small mammals such as mice.
