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Birding or Birdwatching? A Backyard Realization

10,000 Birds

Nothing was on my agenda for that afternoon. I stitched away as I watched the Red-bellied Woodpecker scatter the smaller Chipping Sparrows and Carolina Chickadees as it glided down for a few seed morsels. Crudely put, bird-watchers look at birds; birders look for them. They don’t even have to see them—hearing their call is enough.”

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

10,000 Birds

The sandhill crane has the lowest recruitment rate (average number of young birds joining a population each season) of any bird now hunted in North America. The various sub-species are not all that easy to seperate in the field and their likely won’t be any follow up by State officals to make sure hunter shoot the right one.

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