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Open Season on Bald Eagles

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Bald Eagle image is by Francois Portmann and is used with permission You know, I’ve been thinking about this whole dustup over hunting cranes in Tennessee and now Kentucky. And while we’re at it, I think it’s time to open a limited season on Bald Eagles. We’ve always hunted Bald Eagles. young per year.

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Welcome to Come@Me Week

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For example, you will find no one arguing for outdoor cats, drunk driving on a twitch, or rooting for the New York Mets. 1PM – Meredith: Bald Eagles are Tools. 1PM – Larry: Hunters are not Conservationists. That said, we don’t think any of our post topics are beyond the pale.

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The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove

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Approximately one million hunters annually harvest more than 20 million Mourning Doves , which exceeds the annual harvest of all other migratory game birds combined 3. military, with all their ballistics and performance testing, it should be good enough for hunters.” References: 1 Birds of North America Online , 2 Droege, S.

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A First Christmas Bird Count Experience

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These Blasts From The Past Bald Eagles are Getting Spoiled… Help Save Migratory Birds! Pledge Your Love To Your Favorite Backyard Bird The New ABA President is… About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. Wicked, right?

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

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Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Giving a few hundred hunters something else to shoot, in my opinion, cannot be worth the blowback from tens of thousands of people who are willing to travel and spend just to watch the birds fly over. Isn’t that neat?

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Diabolical Avian ID Quiz: From A to Z in Queens

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He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. 3)Bald Eagle Seth Mar 17th, 2011 at 2:25 pm Has anyone picked this list? Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds The New York Times and Tweety have it absolutely correct. Mitred parakeet 3.

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Answer to the Diabolical Avian ID Quiz: From A to Z in Queens

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In fact, the very first person to guess, Nick , managed to get the third quiz picture correct by calling it a Bald Eagle. Of course, that was the easiest of the three because though the bird in the image is captive, a bird that was injured and can’t be returned to the wild, Bald Eagles do occur regularly and naturally in Queens.