10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

That’s right, the overwhelming benefits to the environment and the economy are generated by non-consumptive uses of the refuges like wildlife photography, environmental education, wildlife observation and interpretation, not hunting and fishing. Note in this 2010 video, birders, birdwatching and kayakers are mentioned, not hunters.

Fish 143

Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 143

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes. There is evidence that a unique Canadian prairie population of lesser sandhill cranes is being selectively wiped out, since they migrate over the most heavily hunted areas of Texas.

2011 245

2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 245

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

I am a city girl and until I became a birder my contact with hunting was limited to occasionally seeing dead deer on the tops of cars in upstate New York. He strongly believes that waterfowl hunters are the major reason we have waterfowl and wetlands in North America today. And, let’s face it, he is right.

Ducks 117

Ducks North America Geese Hunters 117