article thumbnail

Comebackers

10,000 Birds

is going to have to go to Michigan or Wisconsin. However, the age of the Golden Gooney was to come to a brutal end; beginning in the late 1800′s, they were being slaughtered by the millions for their feathers at their breeding colonies. Photographed in Crawford County, MI, by Chris McCreedy.

Albatross 217
article thumbnail

Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

10,000 Birds

According to Stanley Temple, a professor emeritus of conservation at the University of Wisconsin, “the extinction was part of the motivation for the birth of modern 20th century conservation.” We have given an awful exhibition of slaughter and destruction, which may serve as a warning to all mankind. Why is this happening?

Hunting 116