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Fireworks cleared; bird watchers still urging caution<\/p>\n
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MADISON (WKOW) — The Madison Mallards baseball team announced that they will continue with their annual fireworks show on July 3 at the duck pond.\u00a0<\/p>\n
It comes after one fireworks show for the Madison Nightmares was canceled last week due to an eagle’s nest nearby with eaglets (baby eagles) still in the nest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
In collaboration with Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance and Madison Parks, Park Ranger Supervisor Steven Dray says the show is allowed to happen after getting clearance that the eaglets were not in serious danger.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“They’re at a point where the fireworks won’t have an unnecessary and undue strain on them, so they have reached that point,” Dray said.<\/p>\n
The family of eagles are across the lagoon at\u00a0Warner Park on a small island in trees, making it difficult to see with the heavy foliage in the summertime.<\/p>\n
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Courtesy: Southern Wisconsin Bird Alliance, Brenna Marsicek<\/p>\n
Although eagles\u00a0and fireworks are both seen as symbols of patriotism, Alicia King, the Executive Director of Wisconsin Society of Ornithology says the loud noise from the fireworks makes an impact on birds.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“The fledglings, or the eaglets, after they fledge, they’re still young and they’re still hanging around the area, so they’re still susceptible to those loud noises and the disruption,” King said.<\/p>\n
King wants curious observers to be respectful of the birds and stay at least 350 feet away from any eagle nest.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“It’s not that rare for us to be able to see bald eagles,” King said.\u00a0There is an act called the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act, which has specific regulations that say we need to stay at least 330 feet away from the bald eagle nest and that we need to reduce our disruption in the area, and there’s very specific requirements. Those regulations are there to protect the bald eagles, so that they continue to thrive and continue to reproduce.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Fireworks cleared; bird watchers still urging caution MADISON (WKOW) — The Madison Mallards baseball team…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739403,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[192,3,79,452,201],"class_list":["post-739402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-wildlife","tag-environment","tag-news","tag-science","tag-top-stories","tag-wildlife"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739402","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739403"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}