10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

This has resulted in a reduction of the number of duck stamps sold. Sales of duck stamps have funded the preservation of wetlands and other wildlife habitat, which in turn has supported an increase in waterfowl populations. This has benefited both the waterfowl hunters and everyone else who likes ducks and their kin.

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Ducks Hunters Hunting Wildlife 205

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

Bufflehead ( Bucephala albeola ) Female at Cavity Entrance photos by Larry Jordan “Some 85 species of North American birds excavate nesting holes, use cavities resulting from decay (natural cavities), or use holes created by other species in dead or deteriorating trees. Talk about cute! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NWDXIhy9oJA

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North America America Barn Owls Falcons 207

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

The smooth mass of bronze (photographed at right by Jordan Mann) was a stylized version of a Great Auk —a bird that no longer exists. Raised among birders, he was once sculpting an abstract duck figure when he happened upon Hope Is the Thing With Feathers , Christopher Cokinos’ elegy for extinct birds. What a horror!

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Birds Ducks DC Jordan 199

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

In the only state in the Central Flyway that protects cranes from hunting. Letters from Eden (Houghton Mifflin, 2006) will soon be followed by a memoir about the birds she has raised, healed, studied and followed throughout her life. Or is the mandate to protect the welfare and habitat of our state’s wildlife?

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 239