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MARCH 20, 2011

My friend Vickie Henderson , who has some serious long-range vision, looked at the science behind Tennessee’s crane hunting proposal and found it badly wanting. Ask the proposing states to follow Nebraska’s example, to let them, and their big, desperately imperiled white cousins, alone. Here’s the petition.

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MARCH 14, 2011

I would encourage the KDFW to take Tennessee’s example as an indication that offering sandhill cranes for hunting will create far more public relations trouble than it’s worth. From July 1 2008-June 30 2009 Ducks Unlimited raised 200.4 18 Responses to “Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Thanks for visiting!

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MAY 19, 2011

It turns out that humans without compasses make no use of magnetic fields.) Another question this raises has to do with migration itself. But in the vast in between where most birds exist there are all sorts of contradictory examples. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 1046 (1), 282-293 DOI: 10.1196/annals.1343.026

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