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More than 10,000 waterfowl die in drought-related outbreak

Damon Arthur, Ryan Sabalow Redding Record Searchlight

Last updated Friday, March 30, 2012 - 2:37pm

At least 10,000 migrating snow geese and other waterfowl have died this spring at drought-plagued Lower Klamath and Tule Lake national wildlife refuges along the Oregon border with California.

Biologists are calling the avian cholera outbreak one of the biggest drought-related die-offs in the refuges' more than 100-year history.

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Now's the time to see sandhill cranes at Ogden Bay

Standard-Examiner staff Standard-Examiner

Last updated Wednesday, March 28, 2012 - 2:50pm

HOOPER -- Sandhill cranes are in Northern Utah in good numbers right now, and opportunities to see and hear the giant birds abound -- but they won't be around too much longer.

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Duck hunting stamps could go up to buy more land for waterfowl

Rob Hotakainen McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Wednesday, February 15, 2012 - 9:06pm

WASHINGTON -- It's cost $15 to shoot a duck since 1991, but that will change if President Barack Obama gets his way. Under the president's new budget proposal, the cost of the federal duck stamp required for hunting would rise to $25 next year, a move aimed at making it easier for the Interior Department to buy more land for migratory waterfowl.

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Tradition trumps drought for pheasant hunters

Michael Pearce Wichita Eagle

Last updated Sunday, November 20, 2011 - 12:20am

RUSSELL COUNTY, Kan. -- For years, the field of native grass was waist-high and full of pheasants.

One Saturday, it was ankle-high and Chris Kaufman and friends saw just one rooster pheasant . . . and didn't get it.

"Tradition is still a tradition," said Kaufman, of Winfield, Kan. "The first field of the season is always the same first field of the season."

Kaufman's host, Rod Meier, blamed a severe August hail storm for the flattened field and its few birds.

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River hunters show a zeal for teal, wood ducks

Paul A. Smith Milwaukee Journal Sentinel

Last updated Tuesday, October 11, 2011 - 5:37pm

PRAIRIE DU CHIEN, Wis. -- Dawn came to the great river in a windless hush, the low sky brushed with muted pink and orange.

As light filled the backwater, a gray, cottony mass drifted overhead, obscuring the tops of the bluffs. Mist settled into the slough.

Mother Nature is a master at balance. As we sat in the damp stillness, the slate-colored sky came alive.

Flock after flock of waterfowl streaked over the horizon, wings ripping air as the birds banked and flared.

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Young waterfowl hunters wade right in

Brent Frazee Kansas City Star

Last updated Monday, September 26, 2011 - 2:47pm

OREGON, Mo. -- When Tanner Walker took teenagers Johnny Prunty and A.J. Hemingway teal hunting Saturday, it brought back memories of the not-so-distant past when he was wading in their shoes.

"I shot my first duck out of this blind," said Walker, 20, as he stood on a mound at the Nodaway Valley Conservation Area in northwest Missouri. "Now I'm back here at the same spot helping someone else get started in the sport.

"For me, this is my way of giving back. I'm just obsessed with duck hunting, and I'm totally committed to helping young people get involved."

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North Dakota expected to be awash in ducks this fall

Dennis Anderson Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

Last updated Friday, August 26, 2011 - 3:07pm

SOMEWHERE OVER NORTH DAKOTA -- The Cessna 206 banked toward the rising sun last week, revealing beneath one wing a rich, broad countryside as green as it was watery. This was North Dakota in August 2011, one of the wettest years on record, in which basins large and small that have pockmarked the landscape for 10,000 years are water-filled.

And in many cases, duck-filled.

"I've been out here 30 years and I've never seen a spring and summer like this," said U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service biologist Lloyd Jones, a Wisconsin native and manager of Audubon National Wildlife Refuge in west-central North Dakota. "Water is everywhere."

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