Migratory Bird Treaty Act – Mia McPherson's On The Wing Photography

Common Mergansers And Remote Controlled Harassment

By Mia McPherson|January 15th, 2024|Categories: Birds, Common Mergansers, Harassment, Miscellaneous, Salt Lake County, Utah, Wildlife Ethics|Tags: adult, bothering, close up, Common Merganser, diving ducks, drake, duck, ducks, flight, flying, harassment, harasssing, immature, male, merganser, mergansers, Mergus merganser, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, park, pond, remote controlled boat, remote controlled speedboat, sliding, toy, urban, water, waterfowl, wild, winter, young|

I photographed these Common Mergansers at my local pond three years ago today. I will explain why I only had a few minutes with the mergansers at my local pond.

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If You Used this Search Term: How Much To Feed A Juvenile Brown Pelican

By Mia McPherson|November 14th, 2020|Categories: Birds, Brown Pelicans, Florida, Fort De Soto County Park, Pinellas County, Wildlife Ethics|Tags: Brown Pelican, Gulf of Mexico, immature, juvenile, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, Pelecanus occidentalis, pelican, pelicans, rehab, rehabilitation, rehabilitator, rescue, resting, search term, search terms, water, young|

Please, please, find an authorized and licensed bird or wildlife rehabilitator in your area immediately.

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Man Arrested for Illegal Mass Killing of Raptors in California

By Mia McPherson|March 15th, 2018|Categories: Birds, Box Elder County, Red-tailed Hawks, Utah, Utah County|Tags: birds of prey, Buteo jamaicensis, California, hawk, hawks, Hawks of Utah, Illegal Mass Killing of Raptors, Lassen County, MBTA, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, poacher, protected, raptors, Red-tailed Hawk, Richard Parker|

I seriously don't know why some people do the things they do and there are times that I read articles and find myself simultaneously exceedingly sad and tremendously angry when those articles have to do with the malicious, illegal killing of birds and wildlife.

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Migratory Bird Treaty Act 100th Anniversary

By Mia McPherson|August 17th, 2016|Categories: American White Pelicans, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Utah|Tags: American White Pelican, flight, flock, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, Pelecanus erythrorhynchos, pelican, pelicans, Promontory Mountains|

The Migratory Bird Treaty Act has been monumentally successful and we need to insure that it continues and not allow the treaty to become weakened.

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The Demise of the Magical Sapsucker Tree and the Luck of Finding More Nesting Cavity Trees

By Mia McPherson|June 14th, 2015|Categories: Birds, Clark County, House Wrens, Idaho, Red-naped Sapsuckers, Targhee National Forest|Tags: aspen, branch, campsite, cavities, cavity, cavity nesters, forest, House Wren, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, Montana, mountains, nest, nesting cavity, nesting tree, nests, Populus tremuloides, Quaking Aspen, Red-naped Sapsucker, safe haven, sapsucker, sapsuckers, Sphyrapicus nuchalis, tree, Troglodytes aedon, woodpecker, wren, wrens|

I am heart-broken about losing the Magical Sapsucker Tree but I am glad to have found a few more where the chicks are thriving and are safe so far.

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Photograph But Don’t Touch – Wildlife Ethics

By Mia McPherson|March 20th, 2013|Categories: Antelope Island State Park, Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, Birds, Box Elder County, Davis County, Long-billed Curlews, Red Foxes, Utah, Wildlife Ethics|Tags: Antigone canadensis, chick, ethics, immature, juvenile, Long-billed Curlew, Migratory Bird Treaty Act, nature photography, Numenius americanus, Red Fox, red fox kits, Vulpes vulpes, wildlife ethics, wildlife photography|

I do hope that non-photographers and the general public know that behavior like this is an exception and that ethical photographers would not have gone up and petted the Sandhill Cranes.

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