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Now Wisconsin Too?

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

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

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The Economic Impact of Birding on National Wildlife Refuges: Creating Local Jobs

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

Activities such as hunting, fishing, and trapping are categorized as “consumptive” uses. In contrast, consumptive uses were minor: fishing accounted for 10 percent and hunting was just 4 percent. Horicon NWR (Wisconsin): 434,000; $8.6 Even in these reports, however, the impact of birders is not calculated independently.

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Minnesota, a Winter Owl Wonderland

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2013

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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All Three Populations of North American Trumpeter Swans Are Increasing

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2015

During the 1980s, the Pacific Coast Population swans became the source of eggs for several restoration programs in Minnesota, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin, and Iowa 2. The Trumpeter Swan Society lists these as: Lead Poisoning – occurs when swans ingest lead shot or lead fishing sinkers in wetlands and lakes.

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Comebackers

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

is going to have to go to Michigan or Wisconsin. Not only were they a common bird, they were a common bird nearshore; indigenous peoples hunted them up and down the coast. Photographed in Crawford County, MI, by Chris McCreedy. The Kirtland’s Warbler…the reason that one day, almost every birder in the U.S.

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Stop the Tennessee Sandhill Crane Hunt! (Again)

10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2013

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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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

With the proposed hunting seasons on sandhill cranes being discussed in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin, we must not forget the whooping crane, which travels and winters in the big sandhill crane flocks. More states will doubtless join the queue of those proposing hunts. Another thing to consider. Here’s the petition.

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Wild Turkeys Causing Car Accidents

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2011

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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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

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. And so, Fuller embarked on a new initiative—locating and researching photographs of lost birds and, expanding his scope, of mammals. The story of the Mamo is particularly poignant.

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

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

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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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

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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Wisconsin Falconer Legally Traps Snowy Owl

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

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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

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JUNE 28, 2018

The definition of the word HUNT is “to chase or search for game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing.” ” Obviously the dictionary does not equate hunting with conservation. If you have some insane idea that Hunting Is Conservation: I think we all remember the fate of the Passenger Pigeon ?

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Duck Stamps and the Best National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2018

A “ Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp ,” more commonly known as the “Duck Stamp” currently costs $25 and income from sales goes into the Migratory Bird Conservation Fund (“MBCF”). Horicon NWR (Wisconsin): 98.7%. The longer answer is below. But initially, some background is helpful. # # #. Desert NWR (Nevada): 0.0%.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

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Listening to Falcons: The Peregrines of Tom Cade

Wisconsin Falconer Legally Traps Snowy Owl

Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

Duck Stamps and the Best National Wildlife Refuges for Birding

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