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.
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About sums it up. Of course, hicky is right with ‘em.
“No species of creature must ever be allowed to go extinct and if it does its our fault.”
One of the main reasons North America is livable (and prosperous) is that when modern humans came here 12,000 years ago, they cleared the continent of mega-fauna, large dangerous animals - mammoths, saber-tooth cats, dire wolves, etc. Otherwise we’d be just like sub-Saharan Africa, with people getting trod upon or eaten by the local wildlife.
So, if an extinction occurs directly resulting from man’s activity what is the penalty besides someone trying to shame us?
Good question! More Government! More Taxes!
In the end times there will be cuckoos and rumors of cuckoos.
the cuckoo’s distinctive “klak-klak” sound....Shiite! I just spent $100 trying to get my clock to quit that.
I’m glad we weren’t around when the dinosaurs became extinct.
Colorado is full of cukoos-—
Oh wait—this might be talking about birds???
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