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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

10,000 Birds

Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield.

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Australia’s extinct and threatened bird species

10,000 Birds

Rats arrived on ships and cats, foxes and rabbits were all introduced and they were all detrimental to the bird population. The huge population of feral cats undoubtedly is having a detrimental effect on our bird life. Since European settlement there has been the loss of at least 23 species and sub-species of birds.

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