10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2013

The Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act , which went into effect seventy-nine years ago on July 1, 1934, authorized the annual issuance of what is popularly known as the Duck Stamp. In 1976, Congress changed the official name to the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp , presumably to broaden its appeal to non-hunters.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s relatively easy to classify birds into family groups based on physical characteristics. We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. We politically worship them, but at the same time we’ve severely decreased the numbers of many species by hunting and habitat loss.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Waterfowl were then and are now the most prominent and economically important group of migratory birds of the North American continent. million people were spending nearly $1 billion annually to hunt waterfowl. Wetland losses across Canada were estimated to be 29 to 71 percent since settlement 2. By 1985, approximately 3.2

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2015

Plastic behaviors are not automatically unrelated to natural selection, but the way those behaviors vary across individuals or across groups may not be best explained by underlying genetic differences. In particular, birds that hang around with humans who don’t happen to hunt or eat them can become very tame.

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