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Wildlife Travel To US

editor — Sat, 20 May 2017 15:51:15 +0000

Unfortunately not all American hunters are as careful as Ron Nelsen. That fact came home to me on another US visit, this time to talk to experts about America’s tallest bird, the elegant Whooping Crane and to see the birds on their wintering grounds along the balmy saline marshes of the Texas coast. It was the other American bird I was writing a chapter about for Back from The Brink. Whooping Cranes – all-white beauties with red faces – were never as abundant as Wild Turkeys across the USA. Maybe there were 10,000 of them in total. Nevertheless, white settlers

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Top Wildlife Travel Destinations

editor — Sun, 14 May 2017 15:55:17 +0000

Animals aren’t capable of considering aesthetics. For all wild creatures, obtaining sufficient food trumps any other consideration. In what sort of location the food might be found is of zero consequence. Getting it is all that is important. So refuse tips are very often attractive places for birds. Indeed, what could be better; a mix of human throwaway detritus that includes waste food and a plethora of insects that feed off it into the bargain. Not only do those birds that delight in eating dead meat – the carrion-eaters such as kites, eagles or crows – get a feed, but

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