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Whooping Crane Killed in Indiana
Posted on 1/4/17 at 11:54 am
Posted on 1/4/17 at 11:54 am
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I wouldn't grab the tracker, but it'd be hard to leave that leg band if you are cold blooded enough to kill a Whooper.
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ATTENTION! We need your HELP!!! Indiana Conservation Officers were called today after a member of the International Crane Foundation found an endangered Whooping Crane that had been killed a few miles south of Lyons in Greene County. Preliminary evidence suggests the bird was shot over the weekend. Another crane was killed in the same area a few years ago, it is still unclear whether the cases may be related. Whooping Cranes are endangered and closely monitored by biologists with both banding and radio transmitters. Please share this post and help us catch the individual responsible. If anyone has any information about the poaching, please contact Indiana Conservation Officer Dispatch at 812-837-9536.
I wouldn't grab the tracker, but it'd be hard to leave that leg band if you are cold blooded enough to kill a Whooper.
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Posted on 1/4/17 at 11:56 am to Clyde Tipton
Too bad they didn't take that band and try and call it in...
Posted on 1/4/17 at 12:01 pm to Clyde Tipton
Shame, but at least it wasn't a coonass that killed one this time...
Posted on 1/4/17 at 12:05 pm to Clyde Tipton
Wtf is wrong with people?
Posted on 1/4/17 at 12:12 pm to wickowick
Yeah, this was on of the migrating population. People suck.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 12:12 pm to wickowick
I'm just saying, nobody can prove that I wasn't in Indiana this weekend
Posted on 1/4/17 at 12:15 pm to Clyde Tipton
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People suck.
Why do people keep shooting these things? I know the kid from Texas was basically a little sociopath, but there are several shot a year. Is there something they tear up or something they look like in flight?
Posted on 1/4/17 at 12:56 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
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or something they look like in flight
Sandhill
I've seen a lot of hunters take shots at blue herons, egrets and such while doing other hunting. Never understood why but stupid people do exist
Posted on 1/4/17 at 1:01 pm to 34venture
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Wtf is wrong with people?
This. After seeing how well bald eagles have done it pisses me off that there are still assholes who can't just let endangered species be. Really wish they'd make examples of the perp if he is caught.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 1:01 pm to FelicianaTigerfan
big whoop
I kid I kid
I kid I kid
Posted on 1/4/17 at 1:03 pm to TheDrunkenTigah
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Is there something they tear up or something they look like in flight?
I think most crawfish and fish farms have permits to shoot birds like night herons and comorants eating their crops, but I wouldn't think you'd mistake one for a sandhill or snow goose though.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 1:03 pm to 34venture
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Wtf is wrong with people
I think some people just like to kill stuff and they aren't knowledgeable enough to know what they are shooting, they are just shooting to kill. It could be kids or ignorant people in general...
Posted on 1/4/17 at 1:12 pm to Clyde Tipton
They keep really close tabs on those birds. I took a picture of one that was staying on a family members farm a couple of years ago. I sent the picture to someone with one of the Crane organizations and they new which bird it was. Here is a copy of the email they sent back. I was like damn.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 1:13 pm to wickowick
You guys really think that many people know about them? I'd bet you 40% of guys would have no idea what a whooping crane is and that its endangered. Sure most guys that hunt regularly do, but how many guys take a friend here and there hunting that has no idea what to shoot and what not to shoot? Friend goes back to the truck to grab the coffee and boom some big ole birds came in to the decoys.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 1:20 pm to baldona
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You guys really think that many people know about them? I'd bet you 40% of guys would have no idea what a whooping crane is and that its endangered.
No, I don't think many people know about them, but there is a percent of the population that sees a bird or animal and shoots it just to shoot with no other thought given. They are not stewards of the land, they have little to no knowledge of the land and the animals that live on it. Others see something in the woods and have the desire to learn what that animal is, they pull out their phone and search or ask on a message board. I think the people that shoot these birds are doing so out of pure ignorance..
Posted on 1/4/17 at 1:27 pm to baldona
There should be a lot more attention grabbing information in the hunting pamphlets. Devote a page to them about the reintroduction programs etc. and have a giant "DO NOT SHOOT" headline.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 1:35 pm to Clyde Tipton
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There should be a lot more attention grabbing information in the hunting pamphlets. Devote a page to them about the reintroduction programs etc. and have a giant "DO NOT SHOOT" headline.
I would be ok with an yearly online continuing education class for a hunting license, something limited to 20-30 minutes to highlight changes and things of importance for the wildlife in the state.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 1:38 pm to highcotton2
wow that's pretty cool highcotton!
Posted on 1/4/17 at 3:59 pm to wickowick
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I would be ok with an yearly online continuing education class for a hunting license, something limited to 20-30 minutes to highlight changes and things of importance for the wildlife in the state.
I would be okay with that if it was offered online. I know most people wouldn't watch the entire thing and it could be cheated easily but there would still be more info being put out.
Posted on 1/4/17 at 4:22 pm to Clyde Tipton
Well that sucks, down here in Texas there is quite a bit of printed and even media attention to the protection of them since this is their wintering home and the fact there is quite a bit of revenue generated by there presents down here. My coast house sits across from the refuge where they winter and we see them all the time while out fishing from Oct - April, there are awesome up close and to hear in the evenings. Even with all of the said attention and the fact your not allowed to hunt Sand Hill Crains in the area to keep from someone misidentifying one we still had a hunter shoot and kill one a few years back, he turned himself in and turned the bird over, IIRC I believe it cost him 15 to 20k in fines, I remember a guy getting a 80 or 90k fine somewhere up north several years back
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