10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2013

Yes, the earth has gone around the sun twice since the uproar from birders and other lovers of wildlife managed to convince the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency to table the idea of hunting Sandhill Cranes in Tennessee for two years. Cancel the 17-year-old annual festival, and propose a hunting season on cranes. It’s bad PR.

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Tennessee Hunting Hunters Wisconsin 239

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) attempts to calculate the economic contribution of National Wildlife Refuge visitation to local communities. Activities such as hunting, fishing, and trapping are categorized as “consumptive” uses. Horicon NWR (Wisconsin): 434,000; $8.6 Every few years, the U.S. million; 48 jobs.

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Wildlife Maryland San Francisco Minnesota 258

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2018

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) has published a list of NWRs that have been created or expanded with Duck Stamp funds. A “ Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp ,” more commonly known as the “Duck Stamp” currently costs $25 and income from sales goes into the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund (“MBCF”). And the U.S. to 44.6%.

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Ducks Wildlife Texas Hawaii 203

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

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. More states will doubtless join the queue of those proposing hunts. Another thing to consider. Here’s the petition.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2015

During the 1980s, the Pacific Coast Population swans became the source of eggs for several restoration programs in Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Iowa 2. The Trumpeter Swan Society lists these as: Lead Poisoning – occurs when swans ingest lead shot or lead fishing sinkers in wetlands and lakes.

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North America Iowa Wisconsin America 176

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

The film is produced by the Cornell Lab or Ornithology, but it is clear from the start that its driving force is Neil Rettig, a well-respected award-winning nature cinematographer who keeps a Harpy Eagle in his Wisconsin barn and who first filmed the Philippine Eagle over 36 years ago. Preventing Philippine Eagle hunting: what are we missing?

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Eagles Philippines Eggs Birds 203

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

is going to have to go to Michigan or Wisconsin. Fish and Wildlife Service. Not only were they a common bird, they were a common bird nearshore; indigenous peoples hunted them up and down the coast. Photographed in Crawford County, MI, by Chris McCreedy.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 215