10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2011

As is often the case in birds, teenagers, and other living creatures, these charismatic colors play a prominent role in the booby’s breeding rituals. They are daring divers, powerful underwater swimmers, and cooperative hunters. Blue-footed Booby Day 2011 will be celebrated on Friday, June 17. sula ) and Nazca Booby ( S.

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Ecuador Peru Hunters Pelicans 182

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

By Julie • March 14, 2011 • 18 comments Tweet Share ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public comment on a proposal to hunt sandhill cranes in Kentucky. Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?!

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 245

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

The USFWS designated the whooping cranes in this population “nonessential and experimental.” So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. Do all hunters realize that? Quick: what’s this?

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 242

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APRIL 15, 2015

We actually spent considerable time searching unsuccessfully for this highly sought-after bird; however I did suspect they were not gone, as several hunters I interviewed knew the bird and claimed it still existed. Whilst in Atewa Range Forest Reserve, a hunter passed us deep in the forest and I asked him to show us his night’s catch.

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 191

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

The population decline is generally blamed on habitat destruction and introduced predators, but inter-breeding may also be to blame. In 2011 they appeared all over Australia in much larger numbers than previously experienced and these unknown populations are always a pleasant surprise.

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Species Australia Birds Parrots 174