10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2021
Last year, I wrote about the rulemaking process used by the Trump Administration to change the requirements of the art contest for the Federal Duck Stamp. And in order to reflect that contribution, the Administration proposed that the Duck Stamp contest have a mandatory hunting element.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 28, 2020
Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) recently sought public comments on its proposal to permanently add a hunting element to the Duck Stamp art competition. Duck Stamp sales have provided more then $800 million dollars to protect more than 5.7 The winning entry (above) featured a Wood Duck and a decoy. For example, 50 CFR § 91.13
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 11, 2016
As a birder, this 72 minute documentary film about the Duck Stamp Contest didn’t accomplish what I was hoping it might – get people excited about the Duck Stamp, or at least wildlife conservation. Dee Dee and her dog Hallie are introduced as competing artists. Hunters are not doing it as much any more.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
And here I am now, avoiding the two barking dogs trying to bite my tires while I am driving through pre-dawn darkness towards the delta of the river Styx, or Acheron , as it is known today at the Ionian Sea coast of Greece. I can hear the mooing of cows, interrupted by gunshots, while two scared flocks of ducks fly above the delta.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2018
Not long after the compilation gets underway starting with the order Anseriformes , we come to Aix sponsa and the compiler asks – hopefully – “Any Wood Ducks?” Now, Wood Ducks are somewhat uncommon in eastern New York in winter and after an inevitable few seconds of silence, some smirking wisecracker pipes up with “Do wooden duck counts?”
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 19, 2013
And here I am now, avoiding the two barking dogs trying to bite my tires while I am driving through pre-dawn darkness towards the delta of the river Styx, or Acheron, as it is known today at the Ionian Sea coast of Greece. I can hear the mooing of cows, interrupted by gunshots, while two scared flocks of ducks fly above the delta.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2022
Sadly, the numbers of Falcated Duck are similarly declining – it is thus listed as Near Threatened. Tianmashan bonus mammal: a Raccoon Dog – though it looks a lot like a raccoon, it is actually more closely related to foxes than to raccoons. But then, I am not a hunter, and do not understand them either).
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