10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2012

Government to set up several forts, including Fort Mitchell in western Nebraska. Scotts Bluff National Monument, NE – During the War, Native American raids prompted the U.S. Scotts Bluff birders found nine species, including Townsend’s Solitaire , Black-billed Magpie , Prairie Falcon , and count week Gray-crowned Rosy-finches.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield. From July 1 2008-June 30 2009 Ducks Unlimited raised 200.4

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

My friend Vickie Henderson , who has some serious long-range vision, looked at the science behind Tennessee’s crane hunting proposal and found it badly wanting. photo by Cyndi Routledge He called the Platte wetlands restoration project “a crown jewel for Nebraska.” Here’s the petition.

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