10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2013

This just doesn’t seem like rocket science to me. million hunters. Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp (Duck Stamp) sales were at their peak in the 1970′s with 2.1 This means that only 11% of hunters buy the Duck Stamp raising approximately $25 million a year. A lot more money! Let’s look at some facts.

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Ducks Wildlife Hunters Hunting 181

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

The diverse range of vagrancy factors dips into related sciences–earth science and magnetic fields, geography and climate, dispersion and evolution–that may not be familiar to readers with little science background. It’s not always easy reading.

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 261

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

The first most readers have probably been aware of, the cheerleader hunter who has been in the news for, well, hunting game animals and being attractive and blonde. I’m not a fan of some of the cuts to science, but National came in in 2008. Conservation conservation science hunting logging' she’s Texan.

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Rhinos Hunting New Zealand Science 169

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2011

Separating ducks and coots is one thing, but separating hawks and falcons? Seriemas are long-legged terrestrial hunters related to extinct terror birds (phorusrhacids). (A I think that would be a tough sell. Peregrine Falcon ( Falco peregrinus ) © David J.

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Parrots Falcons Costa Rica South America 233

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Every year, Ducks Unlimited of Mexico, A.C. The various national versions of Ducks Unlimited are mostly an outgrowth of sports hunting. Now, I secretly do suspect that many millions of ducks may spend the winter in my own backyard. and Canada, but also in Latin American wintering grounds.

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Pelicans Blackbirds Ducks Hunting 223

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Giving a few hundred hunters something else to shoot, in my opinion, cannot be worth the blowback from tens of thousands of people who are willing to travel and spend just to watch the birds fly over. Isn’t that neat?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 250

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2022

Birders care about bird science and conservation, but also about access to birding sites and facilities as those locations, etc. Avian science and conservation are well covered by large and well-financed national non-profits. Until now, it has only been open for hunters. Members will likely also have suggestions for advocacy.

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Advocacy Wildlife Portland Science 218