10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2014

Some jerk (I’d use a stronger word, but this is a family-friendly website) in Wisconsin is shooting raptors. The USFWS (along with another federal agency) is facing a lawsuit that blames solar-power plants for killing endangered Yuma Clapper Rails and other birds. Birding in the Bronx? Yep, at the Dred Scott Bird Sanctuary.

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San Francisco Wisconsin Sanctuary Birds 180

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This bit of science is a nice final counterpoint to an account that has emphasized art, history, and literature. Fuller has not preached about the evils of the human practices that killed and dislocated the Passenger Pigeon; he hasn’t moaned and groaned or sentimentalized. It wasn’t just the mass killings in so many ways.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? photo by Cyndi Routledge Here it is then, another angle on the proposed sandhill crane seasons in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin. Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism.

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