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FEBRUARY 21, 2012

I’ve just finished reading THE PLUME HUNTER (Torrey House Press, December 2011) by Renée Thompson. In this captivating book, Thompson explores the motivation behind hunters who shot birds to sell feathers for women’s hats at the turn of the nineteenth century.

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MARCH 14, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! By Julie • March 14, 2011 • 18 comments Tweet Share ACTION ALERT! Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

In Cyprus it also means that the hunters and trappers are active again. It really is just too damn dangerous to go there without protection if you’re holding a pair of binoculars, looking like a non-local, and driving up back roads obviously looking for birds. And for the legal hunting, here’s the news from opening day.

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MAY 22, 2013

A 2011 survey by the U.S. million hunters. Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp (Duck Stamp) sales were at their peak in the 1970′s with 2.1 Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp (Duck Stamp) sales were at their peak in the 1970′s with 2.1 Eighty years of Duck Stamp sales, $800 million and 6 million acres protected?

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MAY 21, 2014

It preserves habitat, protects wildlife. In Fiscal Year 2011: 46.5 Fishing accounted for 21 percent and hunting 7 percent. Now, as the popularity of hunting has declined, so too have the sales of Duck Stamps. In 2011 that number has decreased to 1.5 According to the latest (2013) report by the U.S.

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MARCH 20, 2011

So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? Over the winter, the universe lost four whooping cranes to what appears to be recreational shooting: three gunned down together in Georgia on December 30, 2010, and another in Alabama on January 28, 2011. Quick: what’s this?

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Many of these refuges and associated Conservation Areas, which have the potential to protect more than 1 million acres of vital wildlife habitat, have been forged through creative partnerships with sportsmen, conservation groups and private landowners. She says, “there’s just a cultural bias against anything related to hunting.”

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