Tax time deadlines can be a few months away.Meanwhile, I encourage everyone to seriously consider a contribution to Fish/Wildlife Fund, also known as Chickadee Check-Offer.This means helping vulnerable creatures and sometimes ‘under radar’ to receive the attention they need in research, habitat and education development.

It was in 1980 that the taxes of the Iowa state taxes included a line for this type of donation.The funds provided in this method help advance the DNR of Iowa DNR Diversity Diversity Program.All creatures, large and small, benefit from ongoing habitat work or to come.

In 2020, around 7,100 taxpayers of Iowa generously donated for a sum of $ 175,000, an increase of $ 25,000 compared to 2019.That's a good sign.However, the potential is remarkable: if one considers that if each Iowa taxpayer contributed with only one dollar, those donations would total $ 1.5 million for wildlife!

How are those contributions being used? To begin, a program is called multiple species monitoring and monitoring.Another is entitled Community Surveys based on Science, and then there are other things, such as the best practices for the conservation of pollinators.This aspect of vulnerable wildlife, insects in many forms and functions, are important pollinators of many plant life forms.Without those pollinators, there is a uphill fight for some plants with very important flowers.

A bald eagle preparing to chew a mapache body.You can help these and other vulnerable wild animals contributing to the Fish/Wildlife Check-Off box in your Iowa state tax form, line 57.thanks for your help.

Just remember to help the best in the tax season this year.Make a positive difference.

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Jilgueros (Carduelis Tristis) are one of our winter resident birds.They can come and go to the feed station of their backyard, as in this case, eating sunflower seeds to help them stay during the cold weather.They can be found in fields with weeds, open alluvial plains or rear courtyards and suburban parks.They have to eat and eat well every day.The seeds hold them, and if they can find seeds of alder, birch, rster, thistle, western red cedar or olmo, everything will be enough to give this bird what it needs.

The yellow plumage of the chest of the male jilgueros helps to give it its name.Later this summer, the bright yellow color will be even more pronounced when this bird begins its normal nesting season at the end of summer.As they nest at the end of the season, this species likes to find snouts and other types of weeds to help build their nest.

The nest will be built from roots fibers, other plant fibers and even spider silk.In this cup -shaped nest they fit two to seven eggs, and if everything works well, two successful nests for the season will help increase the population.

Pale bluish white eggs with faint brown spots will be ugly: each one measures approximately half -inch wide and a little more.The incubation lasts 12 to 14 days.Fear takes between 11 and 17 days before flying.

Partners in Flight data for the American Breeding Bird Survey estimate that the reproductive population is about 42 million.Ninety -one percent of those 42 million pass part of their lives in the USA.UU., Canada and the data show that about six percent pass winter in Mexico.

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My other outstanding creature today is the Eagle Calva (haliaetus leucocephalus), it is no stranger to bird photography when circumstances and the right place, the right time and good fortune allow to collect good photographs.With more than 500 active nests in Iowa, this great raptor has apparently filled all the spaces available in the state.The competition between couples of Águilas is an on -end battle in progress that only the eagles understand.

The positive interaction of people has allowed this great bird to recover the losses of the low population of a hundred years ago.Now, the number of Águilas is good and the expansion is everywhere, especially in the upper west states of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa and Illinois.There are really no states in the USA.UU.No bald eagles.

Winter rest sites in Iowa center are more common along large water areas.Open water under the spilling dams is a favorite place to observe eagles.The Saylorville Lake, the Red Rock Lake or even the Dam Moines Center will work as places to see this magnificent big bird.

Small fish near the surface of the open water are easy to detect with the acute vision of the eagles.A careful planning angle will allow the eagle to intercept the water and, at the right time, extend its claws forward to catch the fish.The claws are strong tweezers, in addition to the fact that large and strong wings allow an eagle to raise approximately half of its body weight.An adult eagle can weigh 15 pounds.Therefore, the maximum with which I could take off is about seven pounds.

A Live adult bald eagle will arrive soon at you in the Le Grand Pioneer Heritage library next weekend on Sunday afternoon at 2 pm, February 2.6.This free and open presentation to the public will allow you.

This educational program will have a living eagle, one that cannot be returned to nature, to show and count.This opportunity to learn about eagles and other large birds fits quite well with the issue of what people can do in terms of habitat and handling to help raptors.You are invited to learn.See you there.

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A feeding of wild animals is scheduled for February 2.February 9, 2022.The Marshall County Chapter of the Izak Walton League is the host organization of this popular event.The location this year will be the Consumers Electric Office Area, at the crossroads of the 30 and 330 highways, southwest corner of that intersection.

The meeting time will be at 5:30 p.m., and delicious dishes of all types of food made with hunting meats, fish and other delicious accompaniments of desserts will.All IKEA members are invited and the guests you want to bring are welcome.If you want to attend only the program, come around 6:30 p.m.

The program that follows Wild Game Feed will be presented by the Bob Backes member.He will show photographs and talk about his adventure several years ago with his daughters to Nepal.They participated in a walk (walk) called the GHOREPANI POON HILL Walk.Another name for this excursion is the walk at Dawn of Annapurna.This was a two -day walk, and then, on the morning of the third day, everyone got up early to walk to Poon Hill to see the dawn in the Himalayas mountains.

Backes told me that the locals consider that this walk is easy.Bob Backes and his daughters will argue that the walk was much less than easy.They are happy to have participated in a unique trip in life to an exotic place on the world map.This should be an excellent program to listen, and I will see them there.

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Speaking of hiking experiences in the Himalayas, this scribe attended a program last Tuesday night at the Le Grand library.It was an excellent program.Jeneb de Jesús presented a slide presentation on his search and success in climbing Mount Everest on May 19, 2016.He sat at the top and took a photo at 29,035 feet above sea level.His detailed photos and his discussion full of facts helped put in perspective what he implies climbing mountains.

In fact, he just returned from Antarctica, where he climbed the highest mountain in this icy continent, the Venson Massif at 16,067 feet high.Its objective will be to climb the highest mountain of each continent, in addition to some less high mountains as the year progresses.

Loeb spoke of the logistics involved in making an international company of this magnitude.Of the experiences of cultural immersion and the difficulty of reaching the base camp was a thing.Then, she, like other Evrest climbers, had to advance in stages to allow her body to adapt to great heights.It was not easy at all.And the last segment of the ascent required supplementary oxygen or not surviving the rigors of that environment.

Jen Loeb has climbed Mount Whitney in California, Mount Rainier in Washington and Denali in Alaska.Add to these Mount Kilimanjaro in Tanzania, Africa; Aconcagua in South America; Koscuiszko in Australia and Elbrus in Europe.

These are just the big.Many smaller mountains have made their list with time.In comparison, his walks in the mountains make any walk through the plains look like a Sunday walk in the park.I'm glad I found an exit for your life of all my life to climb large mountains.Loeb's adventures on Facebook can be seen in @iowaclimberjen or send an email to this address: [email protects]

Appointment to think:

“There is no convenience that man does not resort to avoid the real job of thinking."

-Thomas Edison

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Garry Brandenburg is the retired director of the Marshall County Conservation Board.He graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in Biology of Fish and Wildlife.

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