MADISON, WI (KDAL) – The Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources will be working with partners to increase efforts at protecting the at-risk Connecticut warbler.
In the last 50 years, Connecticut warblers have declined by nearly 80 percent in Wisconsin and 60 percent range-wide.
The species is one of the largest declining bird populations that nest in Wisconsin and now breed in only a small area in the northwest part of the state.
The DNR is working with landowners, foresters and other resource managers to enhance the warbler’s habitat of upland jack pine forests in eastern Douglas and western Bayfield Counties.
A recent survey by 2000 volunteers documented 243 species of birds that nest in the state and where the nesting occurs.
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