Posted on 09/26/2016 8:20:01 AM PDT by george76
There were two sightings of Western yellow-billed cuckoos this year, both in Delta County, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service said.
The secretive birds are listed as threatened under the Endangered Species Act, and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is considering designating parts of western Colorado as critical habitat for the migratory bird, including lands along the Colorado River through Mesa County.
Sightings — which frequently involve people hearing the cuckoo’s distinctive “klak-klak” sound — have been recorded in Mesa and Delta counties in previous years.
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“We have changed the initial map due to comments from the proposed critical habitat mapping,” said Ann Timberman, western Colorado supervisor for the agency.
Mesa County officials have opposed critical habitat within the county.
A revised proposal for critical habitat is expected by the end of the year and the final decision some six to seven months later, Timberman said.
Timberman in the meantime said she hopes to meet with agricultural producers about the management actions they can take within critical habitat.
(Excerpt) Read more at gjsentinel.com ...
No species of creature must ever be allowed to go extinct and if it does its our fault.
Yellow billed cuckoos are all over north western missouri. They are not endangered.
The courts have long ruled that it is NOT 'eminent domain' or a 'taking' in these kind of cases. Makes no difference that you have lost effective use of your land WHILE still paying taxes on it. The end results is that you pay the government that orders you to not to use the land you are paying for.
SSS
ours ?? ..you got a mouse in your pocket?
“No species of creature must ever be allowed to go extinct and if it does its our fault.”
You do realize extrapolating that suggestion would mean dinosaurs would still be running around. Nature is in control.
The total number of species is unknown and does not have a ‘human’ limitation. Humans are not very good at control of nature. Too many deer in an area due to ‘saving the deer’, they ALL get under nourished and sickly. WE have a very bad track record of trying to control nature.
Global warming is the epitome of such hijinks of the liberal mind resulting in unintended consequences. Check in sometime on the number of eagles killed here in CA by the big Fans in the desert that is a keystone of these nanny state liberals.
Live and let live? on that we can agree.
The real issue is not about a bird.
psssst,,, I think he meant that sarcastically.
. . . depriving clock makers of a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.
End the ESA now!
These birds have a weird call - sounds like clicking and clacking more than a soft call. You hear them in the background and they are nondescript. And they are not endangered.
It’s like trying to control the weather. However, they ARE talking about this massive extinction thing that’s supposed to be going on which troubles me a bit.
Why do the feds hate Mesa county?
“...frequently involve people hearing the cuckoo’s distinctive “klak-klak” sound...”
A AK-47 ?
yella billed cuck
So you could stuff them and make clack-clack clocks then?
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/guide/Yellow-billed_Cuckoo/sounds
<p they sound weird - like a mocking bird with a sore throat.
The Feds ( Democrats run by Valerie, Salazar , and pals ) fear former Congressman / current Mesa County Commissioner Scott McInnis because he was & is so successful and
-2- are trying to punish Grand Junction for protesting the attempted closure of historical ( RS2477 ) roads and trails from the 1800s , -3- they hate coal, oil, gas production plus small ranchers and farmers who make America strong ...
In other words, they would make lousy cuckoo clocks.
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