10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the death of two Whooping Cranes in Hopkins County, Kentucky. What thrill there is in murdering an endangered species, I’ll never know.). News endangered species Shooting Whooping Cranes' It’s deja vu all over again , sadly. Rest in peace, cranes 905 and 733.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2014

Image above by AP Photo/Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries.). The pair shot last year in Kentucky belonged to Operation Migration’s project establishing a migratory flock in the eastern United States; there is also the last true wild flock , which winters in Texas and summers in Canada.) Seriously, hunters. (Or,

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2011

Bald Eagle image is by Francois Portmann and is used with permission You know, I’ve been thinking about this whole dustup over hunting cranes in Tennessee and now Kentucky. There was a lot of hunting for Bald Eagles—it is traditionally a game species. Imagine big flocks of Bald Eagles massing on our wildlife refuges.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

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. Another thing to consider. It has not.

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