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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

10,000 Birds

Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. were funded by hunters and 95.1% funded by the non-hunting public.”

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“A Little Bird Told Me” … Happy Birthday Charles Darwin

10,000 Birds

If you know a bit more than that about Darwin, you know that he totally messed up his collection of birds from the Galapagos Islands, and didn’t really think up Evolution until much later in time. This included some birds as well as a fox. Thus, to the Grants, a dead finch is a very important piece of data.

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