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Common Loon vs Fishing Lure

By Mia McPherson|February 12th, 2025|Categories: Common Loons, Environment, Fishing Line Dangers, Salt Lake County|Tags: adult, breeding plumage, Common Loon, danger, discarded fishing tackle, fishing gear, fishing hook, fishing line, fishing lure, Gavia immer, injury, loon, loons, park, pond, spring, urban, water, waterbirds, Willow Pond|

Discarded fishing lures and other tackle can injure, strangle, and kill birds. I don't know how the story ended for this hooked Common Loon.

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.