10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2014
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?” All apprentice falconers are allowed only 1 of 2 species: American Kestrel or Red-tailed Hawk. I personally am on the fence.
10,000 Birds
JULY 8, 2013
More than 50,000 Sandhill Cranes stop to feed while migrating during the fall and winter between Wisconsin and Florida. You don’t feed, encourage and celebrate a large, lovely, charismatic species for 17 years, attracting thousands of devotees who travel each year just to admire it, and then turn around and kill it in front of them.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2011
Wild Turkeys were a species of concern in the 20th Century and several reintroduction programs were tried, including the release of domestic turkeys (that didn’t work so well). There’s a story out of Wisconsin this week of a 5 year old boy that was shot because someone thought he was a turkey.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 19, 2011
Gray Jays have long been more than willing to scarf down the offal that remains when hunters process a carcass so it is little wonder that they have adapted their foraging habits to include whatever scraps picnickers are willing to share. The bold gray-and-white birds know what humans are good for and that is as a source of food!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
The idea of Lost Animals was conceived after the publication of Extinct Birds (2001), a 400-page, four-pound book on 75 extinct species. Passenger Pigeon chick in aviary, 1896, photographer’s identification uncertain, photo now property of the Historical Society of Wisconsin, p. Other species are less known.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2011
So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2019
Critically, NWRs preserve habitat and wildlife, often for endangered species. Unlike most of the other units in the study, however, most visits were from hunters.). Horicon NWR (Wisconsin): 434,000; $8.6 Of course, the study does not purport to rank refuges based on visitation-based economic output, as that is just one metric.
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