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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

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How it raised its chicks? Researchers can and do provide valuable information. Researchers observing (live) Mississippi Kites provide very useful information on the timing, paths, and correlation with fronts that I use when releasing my kites. Researcher” is a term that should differ greatly from the term “trophy hunter.”

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Proposed Changes to the Duck Stamp Not Well Received

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a) Recommendation : Develop and support implementation of a marketing plan with specific sales and revenue goals for waterfowl hunters, other hunters, non-hunters and wildlife viewers, etc. The NAWMP National Stakeholder Survey should help inform this effort. 1) Action : U.S. no physical stamp required).

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The Million Dollar Duck (2016) – A Film Review

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An explanation is given about how market hunters and the draining of wetlands left no place for migrating waterfowl to land or feed and “ the Great Plains soon became a mass graveyard for migratory birds, raising the question, how do we protect birds from man ?” Hunters are not doing it as much any more.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? Do all hunters realize that? It gives one to wonder why this designation was made.

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

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Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Giving a few hundred hunters something else to shoot, in my opinion, cannot be worth the blowback from tens of thousands of people who are willing to travel and spend just to watch the birds fly over. 18 Responses to “Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?!

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Ghana – Rainforest Birding on the Brink by Adam Riley

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Very little information was available at the time, so we hired a car and off we went, following the few tips we had managed to gather but mostly our noses. Here local hunters had known about the colony and for generations had been harvesting the birds by simply picking the adults off their nests during the breeding season.

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Thought To Be Extinct For 100 Years

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Some of these specimens had labels with basic information and were stored for further work at a later time. These conditions offered easy access to hunters in a habitat where a bird as large as a Guan would have little chances to hide or scape. There were reasons to think that the White-winged Guan had been extirpated by over-hunting.