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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death. With the proposed hunting seasons on sandhill cranes being discussed in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin, we must not forget the whooping crane, which travels and winters in the big sandhill crane flocks. Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism.

2011 242
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Best Bird of the Year 2013

10,000 Birds

My fiance and I drove nearly two hours to the Jasper-Pulaski Fish and Wildlife Area in rural Indiana to watch them come in for the evening. I saw my best bird of the year during the World Birding Rally Challenge in South East Peru. But by far the best was witnessing the autumn migration of Sandhill Cranes.

2013 167