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The yellow‐crowned night heron is a southern bird that roosts in trees during the day and feeds at night. They are known to wander north of their normal range. In Ottawa County, this species had only been recorded in 1974 and 1985. The third Ottawa County record was a bird found and photographed by Mike and Karen Warner on April 7, 2019, at Stu Visser Trails in Park Township.
The pomarine jaeger is a stocky and powerful gull-like seabird known for chasing gulls and other birds and stealing their food. They breed on the Arctic tundra and spend the rest of the year at sea. These birds rarely are found at inland locations. Carl and Judi Manning found and photographed one on Oct. 26, 2017, at Holland State Park. This was the first Ottawa County record.
Carl and Judi Manning of Holland, along with Chip Francke of Spring Lake, recently published a five-year update to the bird book they initially wrote and published in 2015.
The yellow‐crowned night heron is a southern bird that roosts in trees during the day and feeds at night. They are known to wander north of their normal range. In Ottawa County, this species had only been recorded in 1974 and 1985. The third Ottawa County record was a bird found and photographed by Mike and Karen Warner on April 7, 2019, at Stu Visser Trails in Park Township.
Courtesy photo / Mike Warner
The pomarine jaeger is a stocky and powerful gull-like seabird known for chasing gulls and other birds and stealing their food. They breed on the Arctic tundra and spend the rest of the year at sea. These birds rarely are found at inland locations. Carl and Judi Manning found and photographed one on Oct. 26, 2017, at Holland State Park. This was the first Ottawa County record.
Courtesy photo / Judi Manning
Carl and Judi Manning of Holland, along with Chip Francke of Spring Lake, recently published a five-year update to the bird book they initially wrote and published in 2015.
Confirmed sightings of five new bird species in Ottawa County are part of a five-year update recently released by the Ottawa County Parks and Recreation Commission.
The new species include a western tanager, California gull, black-necked stilt, lark sparrow, pomarine jaeger and black-bellied whistling duck.
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