10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2013
In light of this, and after nearly three hours with nary a sign of either the teal or the Wood Ducks it was reputed to keep company with, we chucked it. “Surely,” we rationalized, “the ducks will hunker down in this weather, so any further waiting will be fruitless.”
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 19, 2013
The number of people who hunt waterfowl in the US has declined since the mid 1990s. This has resulted in a reduction of the number of duck stamps sold. Sales of duck stamps have funded the preservation of wetlands and other wildlife habitat, which in turn has supported an increase in waterfowl populations.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2014
According to the latest (2013) report by the U.S. Fishing accounted for 21 percent and hunting 7 percent. Coinciding with these figures is something we have suspected for a long time, the majority of Recreational Visitor Days are attributable to non-consumptive activities, followed by fishing activities and hunting activities.
10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2013
Ring-necked Duck ( Aythya collaris ) photo by Larry Jordan. The Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act , which went into effect seventy-nine years ago on July 1, 1934, authorized the annual issuance of what is popularly known as the Duck Stamp. You don’t have to be a genius to see the folly in this approach to Duck Stamp sales.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 8, 2014
Amazon had a brilliant press release on Cyber Monday 2013 about using drones as a possible delivery service for their products in the near future. Say a duck hunter knows that the closed pools nearby has ducks and it’s dead in the pool where they are hunting.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 16, 2017
This leads me to my third twitch for the celebrated Falcated Duck ( Anas falcata ) at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge in January of 2012. In September of 2013 there was an Eastern Kingbird ( Tyrannus tyrannus ) seen in Redding, California, less than 30 miles from my home. This was a no-brainer.
10,000 Birds
MAY 12, 2020
The most recent report was issued in December 2019 and it used data from the 2016 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. There were similar FWS studies using similar methodologies with similar findings in 2003 , 2007 , and 2013. That’s a lot of birding. The post How Many Birders Are There, Really?
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