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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?” If anything, falconry birds like the above red-tailed hawk are a hunting partner, especially wild caught birds.

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Now Wisconsin Too?

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A lawmaker in Wisconsin is proposing a Sandhill Crane hunt. When will the madness end?

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Stop the Tennessee Sandhill Crane Hunt! (Again)

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Yes, the earth has gone around the sun twice since the uproar from birders and other lovers of wildlife managed to convince the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency to table the idea of hunting Sandhill Cranes in Tennessee for two years. Cancel the 17-year-old annual festival, and propose a hunting season on cranes. It’s bad PR.

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Bird of Prey: The Story of the Rarest Eagle on Earth – A Film Review

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The film is produced by the Cornell Lab or Ornithology, but it is clear from the start that its driving force is Neil Rettig, a well-respected award-winning nature cinematographer who keeps a Harpy Eagle in his Wisconsin barn and who first filmed the Philippine Eagle over 36 years ago. Preventing Philippine Eagle hunting: what are we missing?

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Wild Turkeys Causing Car Accidents

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There’s also another issue–the spring turkey hunting season. 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. Deer season is challenging enough to navigate and but everyone seems to wear orange an hunters in trees are easy to spot.

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Minnesota, a Winter Owl Wonderland

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I could hardly contain my excitement as I gazed at a Great Gray Owl and watched it hunt through someone else’s scope. Later in the day, we made the short hop over the border into Superior, Wisconsin to look for the Snowy Owl reported at the airport. Canal Park in Duluth is well known for its wintering gulls, by Carlos Sanchez.

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

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Done properly, a young hawk is curtailed in a growing compulsion to fly greater distances and hunt for herself by a process sometimes called “manning.” ” Cade was later to comment, “1951 was when I first saw the high-flying style of hunting performed by the wilderness-inhabiting Peregrines of Alaska.”

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