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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

The USFWS designated the whooping cranes in this population “nonessential and experimental.” What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death.

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KwaZulu-Natal

10,000 Birds

In KwaZulu-Natal he collected the type specimens of Yellow-rumped Tinkerbird , White-eared Barbet , Blue Swallow , Brown Scrub-Robin , Short-tailed Pipit and others species. In 1964, Clancey’s “Birds of Natal and Zululand” raised the total to 590. James Wakelin is prime example of modern ornithologist and conservator.