my bird of the week - Winter Wren

Ph - Wikim. Commons - Ron Knight

In the forest on some of the Apostle Islands, this bird expresses the spirit of the place with its song:  http://www.xeno-canto.org/175234

Here's a great description of the Winter Wren's habitat, from the Bent life histories series: "To see it, or rather to hear its tinkling, rippling song, to best advantage, we must visit its summer haunts in the cool, shady northern forests, where the sunshine hardly penetrates, where rotting stumps and fallen tree trunks are thickly covered with soft mosses, where dampness pervades the atmosphere near babbling woodland brooks, and where a luxuriant growth of ferns springs from the accumulation of rich leaf mold to nearly hide the forest floor".

And it IS a spectacular song.

"to provide birds the best fighting chance of surviving threats, at least half of the boreal forest should be protected"

Worth reading, from the Boreal Songbird Initiative:

"To provide birds the best fighting chance of surviving the dual threats of habitat loss and climate change, at least half of the boreal forest should be protected from industrial development."

http://www.borealbirds.org/announcements/boreal-birds-need-half-maintaining-north-americas-bird-nursery-and-why-it-matters

Road mortality of birds

Road mortality of birds and wildlife in the news: http://www.jsonline.com/news/wisconsin/highway-through-horicon-marsh-refuge-deadly-to-wildlife-b99304587z1-265874761.html

See also:  http://wglbbo.org/highway-49-road-mortality-issue