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. As Vickie reminds us, not even a majority of Tennessee hunters support a hunting season on Sandhill Cranes : Once again, a proposed sandhill crane season is on the table in Tennessee.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 13, 2019
Unlike most of the other units in the study, however, most visits were from hunters.). Horicon NWR (Wisconsin): 434,000; $8.6 Despite its relatively inaccessibility, Rainwater Basin WMD had more than 53,000 visits, which generated $2.2 million in activity and 19 jobs. Bombay Hook NWR (Delaware); 166,000; $5.3 million; 48 jobs.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2011
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. Turkey hunters…not so much. That usually involves a ghillie suit.
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
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? Do all hunters realize that? It gives one to wonder why this designation was made.
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?” I talked to some of my falconry friends about the Wisconsin man with the snowy. I personally am on the fence.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
Passenger Pigeon chick in aviary, 1896, photographer’s identification uncertain, photo now property of the Historical Society of Wisconsin, p. Fuller’s astonishment at locating this “grail of extinct-bird photograph hunters” is contagious. It’s almost as good as finding the bird itself!
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