Bird is the Word 2019

1st Place Winner Cooper’s hawk near Kaleva by Dean Sexton

Bird Is The Word Photo Contest

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Kurt Schindler - red-headed and hairy woodpecker at PineKnolls From the editor

BACKYARD BIRDING IS POPULAR Birds are an important part of human culture and history.

to the popularity of bird watching around the home.

Since the 17th century, more than 120 species have become extinct due to human activity. However, of all the wildlife in the United States, birds have attracted the biggest following, according to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

A majority of photos submitted were taken of birds in backyards, front yards and on decks. Michigan is home to a variety of species, so bird watchers definitely don’t have to go far.

“Approximately 45.1 million people observed birds around the home and on trips in 2016,” according to a 2016 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and WildlifeAssociated Recreation by the Fish and Wildlife Service.

“A large majority, 86 percent (38.7 million), observed wild birds around the home, while 36 percent (16.3 million) took trips away from home to observe wild birds.”

Geri Helminiak - chickadee on Claybank Road

For the second year, the News Advocate held its bird photo contest and can attest

With a limit of three submissions per photographer, this year’s contest pulled in around 100 photos.

Our bird count shows 40 different species of birds from Michigan all the way to Aruba, and Arizona and Niagara Falls.

One photo even shows Muddy the Mudhen, the mascot of the Toledo Mud Hens baseball team, at Fifth Third Field in Toledo, Ohio.

Thank you to everyone who submitted photos and to our advertisers, and congratulations to our winner!

Michelle Graves, Managing Editor

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Audrey Carpenter - male red winged black bird in Filer Township in 2018

Audrey Carpenter - male wood duck in Cleon Township in 2016

Audrey Carpenter - tom and hen turkey in Cleon Township in 2016

Becky Kline - sandhill cranes in Onekama

Becky Kline - pileated woodpecker in Onekama

Becky Kline - cardinal and flicker in Onekama

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Bethany Merrill - pileated woodpeckers in Benzonia Breanna Miller - Canada goose at Frederik Meijer Gardens

Breanna Miller - red wing blackbird at Frederik Meijer Gardens

Breanna Miller - seagull at Fifth Avenue Beach in Manistee

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Brian Allen - pied-billed grebe in Arcadia Marsh

Brian Krus - Snowy Owl on Maidens Road in Bear Lake on April 10, 2018

Carla Dotts - swan on Lincoln Lake, in Mason County

Dana Dobis - gull at Pictured Rocks

Dana Dobis - goldfinch in Brown Township

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Daniel Carpenter - female bluebird in Filer Township, Manistee

Daniel Carpenter - great blue heron, fall 2018 in Filer Township, Manistee

Daniel Carpenter - pair of sandhill cranes in Filer Township, Manistee

Paula Laws - an eastern phoebe nest in Bear Lake

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Diana Six - redtail hawk near Onekama

Diana Six - redtail hawk near Onekama

Dean Sexton - pileated woodpecker near Kaleva

Diana Six - redtail hawk near Onekama

Brian Krus - Muddy the Mudhen, Toledo Ohio, on Sept. 5, 2018

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Donna Krahe - blue heron eating an eel on Circle B Bar Reserve in Lakeland, Fla.

Donna Krahe - white egret on Circle B Bar Reserve in Lakeland, Fla.

Donna Krahe - pair of sandhill cranes on Circle B Bar Reserve in Lakeland, Fla.

Donna Krahe -pileated woodpecker

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Donna Ronning - mallards

Jackie Moerdyk - great blue heron at Chief Lake

Geri Helminiak - eagle on Keweenaw Peninsula

Jackie Moerdyk - cooper’s hawk at Chief Lake

Geri Helminiak -young eagle taking flight, Keweenaw Peninsula

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Jackie Moerdyk - pileated woodpecker at Chief Lake Jackie Wahr - mourning dove

Jackie Wahr - blue jay on a bird feeder Jan Erickson - finch feeder in Manistee

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Janice Sciba - eagle at Magoon Creek in Manistee

Janice Sciba - loon at Pine Lake in Wellston

Jean Lindeman - chickadees at a cabin off Coates Highway in Manistee County

Jeannette Ware - bronzed common grackle in backyard

Jeannette Ware - mourning dove and cardinal in backyard

Jeannette Ware - pileated woodpecker in yard in Brown Township

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Jeannie Lewis - Pelicans taken Manistee Lake

Jeannie Lewis - blue jay on South County Line Road by the river

Jeannie Lewis - blue heron on Bull Frog Highway

Jeffery Zupin - northern cardinal in backyard in Boyne City

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Kathy Lintz - Baltimore oriole in yard in Ludington

Jeffery Zupin - red-tailed hawk in front of home in Boyne City

John Nyrkkanen - pileated woodpecker in Kaleva

Jenny Howes - red morph screech owl

Kathy Lintz - cedar waxwing in yard in Ludington

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Kathy Lintz - white-crowned sparrow eating an orange in Ludington

Linda Scribner - barrow’s goldeneye at Seng’s Marina in Manistee

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Linda Scribner - eastern bluebird on Switalski Road in Manistee County

Linda Scribner - ring-billed gulls with eggs at nest in Muskegon County

Lori Tomaszewski - adult and juvenile pileated woodpecker in backyard

Lori Tomaszewski - juvenile hummingbird on a shepherd’s hook in backyard

Lynn Herkelrath - Baltimore oriole in Arcadia

Lynn Jensen - great horned owls in Antelope Canyon, Arizona

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Lynn Herkelrath - Baltimore oriole in Arcadia

Lynn Jensen - sandhill cranes in Filer Township

Lynn Jensen - pelicans in Aruba

Richard Morehouse - pileated woodpecker at Thunder Lake in Mason County

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Scott Dobis - cardinal in Brown Township

Ronald Bone - robin in backyard in Manistee

Scott Dobis - white breasted nuthatch in Brown Township

Scott Dobis - cooper’s hawk in Shingleton, Michigan

Tammy Smith - female cardinal in front yard, Manistee

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Tammy Smith - junco in front yard, Manistee

Tom Voss - northern mockingbird on Jan. 10 in Sarasota County, Florida

Tammy Smith - tufted titmouse in front yard, Manistee

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Stephanie Watson - red winged blackbird at Niagra Falls

Jeffery Zupin - snowy owl in woods behind home in Boyne City

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