Category Archives: Birds

I recently read the 2013 study, titled Effects of emerald ash borer EAB on four species of birds by Koenig, Liebhold, Bonter, Hochacka, and Dickinson from Cornell Lab of Ornithology with great interest.  In Michigan they found both red bellied woodpecker and white breasted nuthatch populations increased in areas of and EAB infestation from 2005 – […]

                At the Northern Green conference in January of 2017 Mark Abrahamson, Assistant Director of the  Minnesota Department of Agriculture, presented copious evidence of the direct correlation between woodpecker damage to ash trees and an Emerald Ash Borer (EAB) infestation. Woodpecker damage is described in two ways: Flecking, […]