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"Shocking" "Amazing": For the Birds Laura Erickson on this year's Christmas Bird Count

The North 103.3 | By Lisa Johnson
Published December 18, 2017 at 11:12 AM CST
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There's some good data to be had from the yearly Christmas Bird Counts ... plus a lot of fun.

One of the oldest citizen-science projects in the country, it's Christmas Bird Count #118 this year, and Laura Erickson tells us there were some nice surprises for the birders along their routes in Duluth.

For a map with the locations of Christmas Bird Counts in Minnesota and Wisconsin, click here:
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Lisa Johnson
Lisa Johnson started her broadcast career anchoring the television news at her high school and spinning country music at KWWK/KOLM Radio in Rochester, Minnesota. She was a reporter and news anchor at KTHI in Fargo, ND (not to mention the host of a children's program called "Lisa's Lane") and a radio reporter and anchor in Moorhead, Bismarck, Wahpeton and Fergus Falls.Since 1991, she has hosted Northland Morning on KUMD. One of the best parts of her job includes "paying it forward" by mentoring upcoming journalists and broadcasters on the student news team that helps produce Northland Morning. She also loves introducing the different people she meets in her job to one another, helping to forge new "community connections" and partnerships.Lisa has amassed a book collection weighing over two tons, and she enjoys reading, photography, volunteering with Animal Allies Humane Society and fantasizing about farmland. She goes to bed at 8pm, long before her daughter, two cats, or three dogs.
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