Whooping Crane Killed

[Wingman]

Near Weiss Lake, Alabama. Found January 28th. This is the fourth one that has been killed. This will put the nail in the coffin on opening the Sandhill season in Tennessee I'm afraid. $6000 reward offered. I will post more info shortly.

[southernvaughan]

I was no where near that area on that day Rob. I swear!

[RedEyed Duck]

Thats pretty sad that some idiot has to go and do something like this. Can you legally shoot any crane in Alabama at the present time?

[bigwater]

Someone shoots a crane in Alabama. And Tennessee gets punished..
To quote a favorite line from o brother where r't thou.
"I don't get it big Dan"

[Wingman]

[bigwater]

I c...

I thought the dead giveaway on the sandhills was the unique call they make. Do whoop cranes make a similar call?

[Deltaduk]

I hope they catch the idiot that did that. He better be lucky I don't know him,I would be $6k richer.

[Wingman]

[three11]

Food for thought...I am all for trying to save endangered species, and it makes me sick to see people kill animals "just for fun". But I also hate the way our government spends our tax dollars. I did a little research on The Whooping Crane Eastern Partnership. Almost half of its $1.6 Million annual budget comes from our tax dollars. This program has been in the works for approximately ten years. There are currently about 100 cranes in the program. That's $160,000 per crane($80,000 of our tax dollars).

[Wingman]

I guess the other alternative is spend nothing and watch another species go extinct.

I sure would like to see/hunt a passenger pigeon, or see a Carolina parakeet or ivory-billed woodpecker. Maybe see a red wolf or panther in its natural habitat, or bison herds of the pre-settler days.

[JaMak84]

[three11]

[rewardband100]

i feel sorry for whoever shot it, he apparently didnt get to keep the bands....

[Wingman]

[Don Miller]