A researcher trying to understand what`s causing a decline in Wisconsin`s loon population is expanding his project into Minnesota.Chapman University biology professor Walter Piper has found that Wisconsin`s loon population has decreased by about 22% in the last 25 years.
Chicks also are smaller and young loons` survival rate is lower. Minnesota Public Radio reports that Piper has partnered with the National Loon Center to expand his research into Crow Wing County in north-central Minnesota.
Last summer Piper`s team attached identification bands to about 80 loons around the Whitefish Chain of Lakes north of Brainerd...
Ken Notes: I can not imagine the northern lakes without walleye and loons.
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