10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2011

In Boston, a turkey was the cause of a 2 car accident during the morning commute. I think the main reason turkey/vehicle collisions are more noticeable this time of year are breeding hormones. Deer season is challenging enough to navigate and but everyone seems to wear orange an hunters in trees are easy to spot.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

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. 18 Responses to “Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?!&#

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird?

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