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Re: Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death
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Re: Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death
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01/09/15 02:43 AM
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Maybe we should have left the market hunters continue as they did before current waterfowl regulations. There would be a lot less duck hunters than there are today, that is if they were not extinct.
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Re: Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death
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01/09/15 03:02 AM
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I bet it was someone who had an incredible moment of panic when they realized what they did, even if it was back at the ramp or at home later.
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Re: Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death
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Could have been an amateur wildlife biologist that just needed to get his hands on it in the name of science.
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Re: Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death
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Re: Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death
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I put on my science education boots to try to kick something in here. Glad I did because we sure are having to wade through lots of....stuff.
Off the record, my personal favorite endangered species is the Texas blind salamander. They go great grilled and put on an atheist salad. You know, a salad that knows it's better than other salads.
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Re: Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death
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01/09/15 01:14 PM
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I do continue to be amazed how 100+ years of science and conservation advances are completely lost on so many. No wonder we have to have so many "idiot" laws.
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Re: Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death
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01/09/15 02:11 PM
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I am pretty sure JP knew how this thread would play out after he posted it. The initial responses of some are very predictable. Could it be possible that those first few replies after post #1 is the real troll bait? Could it be the replys to those initial responses are the real trolls? So been any whoopers on Truscott. How is the hunting out there this season anyway. I hear they been stacking the green on Tawakoni. No whoopers there.
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Re: Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death
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Just getting back to this thread. Have they determined if the crane was shot?
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Re: Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death
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Just getting back to this thread. Have they determined if the crane was shot? First we must determine if it was actually a crane. Apparently only a scientist can do that.
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Re: Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death
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Re: Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death
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Off the record, my personal favorite endangered species is the Texas blind salamander. They go great grilled and put on an atheist salad. You know, a salad that knows it's better than other salads.
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Re: Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death
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Off the record, my personal favorite endangered species is the Texas blind salamander. They go great grilled and put on an atheist salad. You know, a salad that knows it's better than other salads. He did kind of fit right in, didn't he?
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Re: Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death
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Off the record, my personal favorite endangered species is the Texas blind salamander. They go great grilled and put on an atheist salad. You know, a salad that knows it's better than other salads. He did kind of fit right in, didn't he? Dave is a hippie also, dont let him fool you
Attention rickym, this is not a troll post, just a good hearted fun type of post
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Re: Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death
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Just wondering, why would Jesus try to hit a curve ball?
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Re: Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death
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Just wondering, why would Jesus try to hit a curve ball? To knock it over the fence, why else?
Attention rickym, this is not a troll post, just a good hearted fun type of post
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Re: Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death
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Unless it was carrying the cure to cancer I really don't care.
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Re: Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death
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Just wondering, why would Jesus try to hit a curve ball? I'll tell you for a cigarette and a shot of rum
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Re: Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death
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What's wrong with duck hunting in a 2wd pickup? I have a four wheeler and a rhino to get me to the duck hole, so I have never needed a 4wd pickup.
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Re: Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death
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Re: Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death
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Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death AUSTIN -- Texas game wardens in Aransas County are awaiting necropsy results on a state and federally protected whooping crane found dead Sunday near a duck blind located in the Aransas Bay system close to Sand Lake.
The bird was partially decomposed when recovered by Texas Parks and Wildlife game wardens who had been contacted Sunday morning by a local hunting guide who had originally discovered the crane.
Whoopers are the tallest birds in North America, standing nearly five feet. The cranes are solid white except for black wing-tips that are visible only in flight. They fly with necks and legs outstretched. Each fall, they make a 2,400-mile migratory journey from Canada to the Texas coast. In the spring, they return north.
TPWD game wardens and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are jointly investigating this incident. If anyone has additional information regarding this matter, they are encouraged to call Operation Game Thief at 1-800-792-GAME (4263). Callers may remain anonymous.
Since beginning their slow recovery from a low of 16 birds in the 1940s, whoopers have wintered on the Texas coast on and near Aransas National Wildlife Refuge. Recently though, several groups of whooping cranes have expanded their wintering areas to include other coastal areas and some inland sites in Central Texas. "Whooping Cranes encountered by hunters in the Central Flyway are part of the last remaining self-sustaining wild population of about 200 individual birds known as the Aransas/Wood Buffalo Park Population (AWBP). They breed at Wood Buffalo National Park in Canada, migrate through the Central Flyway (North Dakota, South Dakota, eastern Montana, Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma), and winter at the Aransas National Wildlife Refuge in Texas. The fall migration begins in mid-September and they normally reach their wintering grounds by early December. These cranes usually migrate as a single pair, family group, or in small flocks. When Whooping Cranes travel as singles they often join groups of Sandhill Cranes." Important Information for Waterfowl and Sandhill Crane Hunters
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Re: Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death
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It's sad the government spends so much on a dam bird and cant even take care of our freaking war vets, but they will piss off money every other way they can! I can only fathom to imagine how many millions upon millions of dollars was spent on these dam whooping cranes. Tired of governent BS.
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Re: Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death
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I'm sure you'll let us know when you're on the next ballot then
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Re: Game Wardens Investigating Whooping Crane Death
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