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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. Sandhill Hunt: They’re Voting Now Sandhill Cranes: Game Birds? Where Are You Birding this Second Weekend of March 2009? to a high of 11%.

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Do Birds Feel Love?

10,000 Birds

No human can divine what a mated pair of geese or eagles may feel for one another, but stories abound of birds,especially Canada Geese , who spurned all offers from members of the opposite sex for years after a mate was killed. The birds had roosted together each night in a single soft clump of feathers. Would they return?

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