The were over 5 billion passenger pigeons in North America. How many are there now?
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There weren't any for Cheney to kill, 'cause they been extinct since 1914.
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I love to shoot starlings and house sparrows with mine. They are both introduced species and a plegue on other birds. If we had a government had half a backbone they would eliminate them all by putting a $1.00 a head on each one. And I would become a millionare within a year.
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Link below is to Quabbin Reservoir site, which lists bird watching among the activities, and this phone number.\n\nAn automated telephone system - 413 323-7221 - provides 24 hour access to current information on fishing, hunting, programs, rules and regulations, and public access.\n\nI used to live near there - I love the area.  Also, Jane Yolen wrote a children's book about the creation of the Quabbin.\n\nSecond link is an article I wrote about birding.  Have fun.
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Millions over 5 I believe.
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THE Eurasian steppes are a vast belt of grassland extending from\neastern Europe through western and central Asia to north-east\nAsia. The five threatened species which occur in the east Asian\nsteppes include four which also range westwards outside the Asian\nregion, Imperial Eagle, Lesser Kestrel and Great Bustard to Europe,\nand Pale-backed Pigeon to Central Asia. They occur in a variety of\nhabitats in addition to lowland grasslands: Imperial Eagle inhabits\nforest-steppe, and some forest conservation measures are relevant\nto the species (see F01); Pale-backed Pigeon is found in open,\nsparsely wooded habitats in the mountains; and White-throated\nBushchat breeds in mountain grasslands. The lakes and other\nwetlands in the steppes are important for threatened waterbirds, and\nare covered in W05.\n■ Key habitats Steppe grasslands, forest steppe and mountain\nsteppe, scrub in sandy desert.\n■ Altitude Lowlands to 3,100 m.\n■ Countries and territories Russia (Krasnoyarsk, Khakassia, Tuva,\nIrkutsk, Buryatia, Chita); Mongolia; China (Heilongjiang, Jilin,\nInner Mongolia, Xinjiang, Gansu); outside the Asian region, the\nsteppes extend through central and western Asia to eastern\nEurope.
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There are some great shots of many types of birds in flight (including some sequences, if you click a selected bird) located at: http://www.astronomy-images.com/day-images/California/Birds/flight_of_birds.htm
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crows are those normal birds so they have two eyeballs ,one in each \n\nThe true crows are in the genus Corvus. They are large passerine birds. All temperate continents (except South America) and several offshore and oceanic islands (including Hawai‘i) have representatives of the 40 or so members of this genus.\n\nCrows in the genus Corvus appear to have evolved in central Asia and radiated out into North America, Africa, Europe, and Australia.\n\nThe latest evidence appears to point towards an Australasian origin for the early family (Corvidae) though the branch that would produce the modern groups such as jays, magpies and large predominantly black Corvus Crows had left Australasia and were now developing in Asia. Corvus has since re-entered Australia (relatively recently) and produced five species with one recognized sub-species.\n\nThey range in size from the relatively small pigeon-sized jackdaws (Eurasian and Daurian) to the Common Raven of the Holarctic region and Thick-billed Raven of the highlands of Ethiopia.\n\nIn literary and fanciful usage, the collective noun for a group of crows is a murder. However, in practice most people, and especially scientists, use the more generic term flock.
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Back in history there were a lot of birds that mankind didn't know, but most of them are identified by now.
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There are 7.\nAntarctica, North America, Asia, Europe, Australia, Africa, South America
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There are subtle difference in the coloration of the different sub-species of Wild Turkeys. The five sub-species are:\n1. Eastern (Meleagris gallopavo silvestris) Range covers the entire eastern half of the United States; extending also into Ontario, Quebec, and the Maritime Provinces in Canada. They number from 5.1 to 5.3 million birds. They were first named forest turkey in 1817, and can grow up to 4 feet tall. The upper tail coverts are tipped with chestnut brown
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As of 2004 (the most current data) there are 19,820 airports in the USA, according to the U.S. Bureau of Transportation Statistics. Includes civil and joint-use civil-military airports, heliports, STOL (short takeoff and landing) ports, and seaplane bases in the United States and its territories. Of that, 14,532 are private use airfields.\n\nSee this table- "Number of U.S. Airports"\nhttp://www.bts.gov/publications/national_transportation_statistics/2006/html/table_01_03.html
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at the rate we're going, there will probably be more of the animals that live well with humans (rats, cockroaches, pigeons, raccoons, coyotes, house sparrows, more cockroaches), and few if any of any other kind of critter (tigers, cheetahs, woodland caribou, wild yak, elephants, rhino, gorillas, pandas, howler monkeys, sturgeon, river dolphin, right whale, and about 3000 other critically endangered animals and plants)
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They fly and land a lot like pigeons, so I don't think they have a distinctive flight pattern.  At least, not distinctive enough to notice.  It's probably more that it's easy to spot a dove in flight (because it's white) rather than the way it flies.
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During D-Day there were some Pigeon with the units. Radios of the time  were bulky and short ranged.  So the pigeons ccould fly a message all the way back to HQ in England. As the Radios got better, the birds went out of use.
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Some of them are in my garden, others are down by the canal.   Are you short of sparrows?\n\nIt's difficult to count baby sparrows cos they won't sit still but it does seem like there's not quite as many as usual.  I blame the late spring.   The swans have only managed half their usual number of chicks; maybe the sparrows had similar trouble.\n\nThe bluetits are doing OK though (what a bleepin' racket...)
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17,500 species of butterflies in the world, and around 750 species in the United States.
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They are all over the place in Central and South America.  They are like our rabbits or deer...I doubt there's a good count out there.  Such places don't have much of a system for counting.  I would GUESS somewhere around 40 million (don't quote me, it's an estimate).\n\nSince predator populations have decreased, Capys are breeding faster.  People hunt and eat them, and in most places aren't protected.\n\nIn fact, apparently they carry disease, and a lot of countries are trying to control the population.\n\nSorry, but really I don't think there's a reliable study that would tell you...And the fact that they roam in many different countries doesn't help.