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Red-shouldered Hawks Move as Floods Rise Along Mississippi
Researchers link chronic high water along the Upper Mississippi River to loss of red-shouldered hawk nesting sites in bottomland forests. A four decade study finds nests abandoned on main stem pools 10 and 11 while tributaries stay active, with floods driving habitat shifts and tree mortality across pool 10.
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Arpers Ferry
Mississippi River
Jon “Hawk” Stravers
McGregor
Stravers
Upper
Mississippi River National Fish & Wildlife Refuge
Paint Creek
Yellow River
Say Magill
John Howe
Raptor Resource Project
Red-Shouldered Hawk Research
Howe
U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
Pelicans
Wisconsin River
Mississippi
Orlan Love