10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

The species readily takes to nesting in small artificial boxes, and the scientists of PRBO Conservation Science have over 450 such boxes scattered across the island to monitor the species. Unique among the auks, indeed among seabirds, they will attempt to double brood, to lay another clutch after successfully raising the first chick.

Eggs 165

Eggs Puffins Breeding Raised 165

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Sandhill Hunt: They’re Voting Now Sandhill Cranes: Game Birds? Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life. This slow reproduction rate is unlike any other avian game species currently hunted.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 252

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

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. That’s what you do with other game, right? Why not just shoot the biggest one? I thought whooping cranes were all white.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243