Newsmakers, March 8, 2012

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Scott Mehus, Education Director at the National Eagle Center in Wabasha, Minnesota, and La Crosse-based Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Biologist Craig Thompson discuss this year’s atypical winter weather, its effects on migrating birds, resident eagles, and places to observe both.

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  • Spring Migration, Eagles and More

    Scott Mehus, Education Director at the National Eagle Center in Wabasha, Minnesota, and La Crosse-based Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources Biologist Craig Thompson discuss this year’s atypical winter weather, its effects on migrating birds, resident eagles, and places to observe both.

  • Spring Migration, Eagles and More

    Mehus and Thompson continue the discussion, looking at habitat, the impact of human development, and the future.

    Craig Thompson and his efforts to save bird habitat is explored in the Wisconsin Public Television documentary, Our Birds, released in 2011. WPR’s John Gaddo reported on this project in May 2011. Listen to that report here.