{"id":448,"date":"2019-08-20T11:33:02","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T16:33:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/?page_id=448"},"modified":"2019-08-20T11:33:02","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T16:33:02","slug":"leopold-reserve-pine-island","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/sites\/leopold-reserve-pine-island\/","title":{"rendered":"Leopold Reserve-Pine Island"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Site Description<\/h3>\n

Located on the Wisconsin River between Wisconsin Dells and Portage, this IBA presents a diverse mix of land ownerships.\u00a0 It includes a large private tract owned by Phill and Joan Pines; the Leopold Memorial Reserve owned by the Aldo Leopold Foundation, the Sand County Foundation, and several private landowners; Pine Island State Wildlife Area (WDNR); the Baraboo River Waterfowl Production Area (USFWS & NRCS); and the Lower Baraboo River Floodplain Forest, a large tract composed of multiple small, private ownerships.\u00a0 The IBA contains a complex mosaic of habitats that reflects its location on the boundary between the Central Sands and the Driftless Area: river sandbars and islands; floodplain forest; floodplain savanna and barrens; emergent marsh; sedge meadow; shrub swamp; restored upland savanna and prairie; and scattered agricultural fields and pine plantations, many of them being restored to native vegetation.<\/p>\n

Ornithological Importance<\/h3>\n

This IBA supports assemblages of forest, wetland, shrub, and grassland birds, but is most valuable for breeding birds of open and semi-open habitats.\u00a0 Priority grassland species include sedge wren, field sparrow, grasshopper sparrow, Henslow\u2019s sparrow, and bobolink.\u00a0 Wetland breeders include blue-winged teal, black tern, marsh wren, and swamp sparrow, while black-billed cuckoo, red-headed woodpecker, willow flycatcher, and blue-winged warbler are among the priority shrub\/savanna species.\u00a0 Forest birds have overall lower opportunity here, but the IBA does support small numbers of yellow-billed cuckoo, wood thrush, veery, and cerulean warbler.\u00a0 The best forest opportunity is on the extensive Lower Baraboo Floodplain Forest, especially for characteristic floodplain birds such as red-shouldered hawk and prothonotary warbler. \u00a0This IBA also is important as a migratory stopover for waterfowl and particularly for sandhill cranes which use the river islands in large numbers for staging and roosting in the fall.<\/p>\n

Read more about ongoing collaborative conservation efforts<\/a> at the Leopold-Pine Island IBA.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div>

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Leopold Reserve-Pine Island, photo by Mike Mossman<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Site Description Located on the Wisconsin River between Wisconsin Dells and Portage, this IBA presents a diverse mix of land ownerships.\u00a0 It includes a large private tract owned by Phill and Joan Pines; the Leopold Memorial Reserve owned by the Aldo Leopold Foundation, the Sand County Foundation, and several private landowners; Pine Island State Wildlife… [Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":22,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-448","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=448"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/448\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":450,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/448\/revisions\/450"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.wisconsinbirds.org\/iba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}