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In Photos: Ospreys Soar Over Kensington Metropark

Osprey chicks were banded recently by DNR biologists.

Three Osprey chicks were hatched recently in Kensington Metropark and DNR wildlife biologist Julie Oakes and Barb Jensen, who tracks and reports the booming number of Osprey nests in Kensington Metropark and throughout the state, set to work banding the chicks to keep track of them.

Ospreys are large raptors which had been absent from southern Michigan for decades.

As their populations declined in many regions of North America, the Osprey was listed as an endangered species, similar to that of the Bald Eagle. The DNR, Detroit Zoo and the Huron-Clinton Metropark Authority created a reintroduction program to restore Ospreys to southern Michigan, with Kensington being chosen as an ideal location for this project.

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In 2002 the program realized its first success when two pairs of Ospreys began nesting activities in Kensington.

With each successive year, the numbers of nesting pairs has multiplied throughout southern Michigan.

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For information about Osprey programs for local schools and organizations contact ospreywatchsemi@owsem.org or Barb Jensen at 248.684.6487

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