10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2011

I think the main reason turkey/vehicle collisions are more noticeable this time of year are breeding hormones. There’s a story out of Wisconsin this week of a 5 year old boy that was shot because someone thought he was a turkey. Turkey hunters…not so much. Is this turkey contemplating your doom?

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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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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

He reasons out answers to both questions, finally stating that, despite what many eyewitnesses wrote, the birds had to have laid more than one egg and that the birds had to have nested more than once a breeding season. Avery’s trip through Kentucky, Ohio, Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Pennsylvania and New York holds more promise.

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