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Wisconsin Falconer Legally Traps Snowy Owl

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My initial reaction was, “Really, dude, of all the birds that you’re allowed to have in Wisconsin, you choose the bird that is going to make birders who don’t understand falconry angry?” I talked to some of my falconry friends about the Wisconsin man with the snowy. I personally am on the fence.

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Last Flight for Operation Migration

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federal government’s Operation Migration program, which has used ultralight aircraft to teach migration routes to the endangered cranes, has flown its last group of Whoopers from Wisconsin to Florida. But this interaction with humans apparently interfered with adult birds’ ability to successfully mate and rear chicks.

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Reflecting on a Year of Less Birding

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In addition to spotting exciting new species in Florida, including the rare Snail Kite, travel across the country brought me into contact with birds in Oregon, California, Kansas, Maine, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota, Alabama, and more. Not so much. I did not fall into that category.

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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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We had a fledgling Yellow-billed Cuckoo delivered in a glass of water,” said Marge Cahak Gibson in Wisconsin. “By “Almost restores your faith in humanity!” This brings us to those puzzling aqua-deliveries, none of which ever seem to entail wildlife that live in water. “We By a lawyer.” Soaked and ice cold!

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Taking on Turkeys

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A recent news story (OK, the word “news” is stretched here, as it’s more of a roundup of local “turkeys on the rampage” stories) documents close encounters of the nasty kind between wild turkeys and humans, from Massachusetts to Wisconsin to California.

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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

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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.” Some people actually don’t consider human beings as animals. Some people think humans are superior to all other life forms.

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In this week's podcast ending January 2, 2010: **The USDA and National Institutes of Health find animal welfare violations at the University of Wisconsin-Madison; **the Catalan Parliament in Spain finally votes to ban bullfighting in the region; **the Marine Mammal Care Center in San Pedro, CA has a record year for marine life suffering from illness (..)

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