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Carolina Parakeet: Mystery of the Incas

10,000 Birds

But imagine those flocks are verdant green, a color unmatched by any native bird currently in North American (north of Mexico, of course). Barreling into your feeder with reckless abandon and cleaning you right out. When hunters would fire into a flock, the survivors would wheel around and return to the dead and dying.

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The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics.

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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

10,000 Birds

But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today. The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. Consumptive & Non-consumptive Users.

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Kentucky: First in Crane Hunting?

10,000 Birds

Hunters frequently refer to them as “Rib-eye in the Sky” due to the excellent taste. ” More than 10,000 people hunt cranes in North America each year. The big gray feather in Kentucky’s cap, to my thinking, is more like a big old hole, shot right through the crown.

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Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer

10,000 Birds

Arriving in North America around the time of Columbus, they have become “one of the most successful invasive species on earth.”. And keeping cats, natural hunters, indoors is, as a matter of biology and of common sense, not the healthiest state for them.

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US Groups Fight to Save Polar Bear Hunts

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Now that the species is listed in the US as "threatened," hunters can't import the dead body parts (aka hunting "trophies") in from Canada. Supposedly, environmentalists and animal rights activists have "unfairly made the polar bear into 'the panda bear of North America.'" insert crying baby picture here.)

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

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The sandhill crane has the lowest recruitment rate (average number of young birds joining a population each season) of any bird now hunted in North America. Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Hunters and fish and wildlife departments having a stake in Sandhills is a great thing. to a high of 11%.

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