10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

This practice is a throwback to more than a century ago when gunners hunted shorebirds throughout the Americas. The last Eskimo Curlew known to science was shot on Barbados in 1963. But the toll the “shooting swamps&# take on the shorebirds of the Americas is huge and the practice must be stopped.

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Hunters Barbados South Carolina Hunting 249

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2019

John Porter McCown, who shot the first recorded specimen of this species known to Euro-American science, was a Confederate general, a high-ranking officer in the insurrection led by the southern plantocracy to preserve and expand Slavery and the mode of white supremacy which it supported.

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Birds North America Cooking Campaign 260

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2019

From the earliest days of European colonization in the Americas, attempts to make wine with native grapes proved unsuccessful; compared to the imported Vitis vinifera used for thousands of years of Old World winemaking, native grapes were fairly tart but lacking in sugars.

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Ohio Philadelphia Fox Blackbirds 138

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

If you wrote to Tennessee in the 10,000 Birds campaign this winter, you can cut and paste your letter, changing “Tennessee&# to “Kentucky.&# 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. to a high of 11%.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 254