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Hawk-Eagle Sweep in Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

Like a Northern Goshawk on steroids with fancy plumage, these birds can take small monkeys, opossums, ibis, toucans, macaws, and other medium-sized animals of the rainforest. Oh, and yes, some do also kill our local “turkey”, the Great Curassow. This curassow is great. Black-and-white Hawk-Eagle.

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Last Gasp for Sandhill Cranes—Act Now!

10,000 Birds

Why allow hunters to shoot right into the middle of them? A hunting season on sandhill cranes vastly increases the chance that collateral kill of endangered whooping cranes will occur. Sandhill cranes look a lot like endangered whooping cranes in questionable light, as at dawn and dusk, when they’re most likely to be shot.

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