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Show Your Love – Don’t Let Balloons Go

By Mia McPherson|February 14th, 2024|Categories: Conservation, Environment, Miscellaneous, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: balloon, balloons, bird dangers, danger, dangerous, entanglement, hazard, hazardous, ingest, Jordan River, mylar balloons, shrubs, strings, tangled, urban, wildlife dangers, winter|

Last Sunday I went to some local spots to look for birds. As I was driving, I saw four mylar balloons stuck in some shrubs near the Jordan River. My heart sank.

Fishing Line Is A Dangerous Nesting Material

By Mia McPherson|April 19th, 2023|Categories: American Robins, Birds, Fishing Line Dangers, Nesting Birds, Salt Lake County, Utah|Tags: adult, American Robin, dangerous, fishing line, fishing weight, grass, grasses, nesting materials, nesting season, park, pond, robin, robins, spring, Turdus migratorius, urban|

All across the country it is nesting season for many North American birds. For some nesting birds it is also a very dangerous time because of fishing line.