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Old 09-13-2017, 08:34 PM
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Default Sandhill crane season?

I have been seeing cranes in the Calling lake area, tons of them and also by Big Lake. Flying all day and now at 8:30 to and fro. Curious why Alberta won't open a season for them. Thoughts?
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Old 09-13-2017, 08:39 PM
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Won't be a season in Alberta for many yrs if ever.thats from a reliable source.unfortunetly.
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Old 09-13-2017, 08:40 PM
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It might well relate to not wanting folks to shoot the Whooping Cranes. Sure, the two don't look much alike, but I'd bet there are a good number of swans shot in our province every year by morons who can't tell them from a Snow Goose. Not to mention that at sloughs in the Calgary area, I have found shot gulls, grebes, night-herons, etc.
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Old 09-13-2017, 09:09 PM
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It might well relate to not wanting folks to shoot the Whooping Cranes. Sure, the two don't look much alike, but I'd bet there are a good number of swans shot in our province every year by morons who can't tell them from a Snow Goose. Not to mention that at sloughs in the Calgary area, I have found shot gulls, grebes, night-herons, etc.
Ya I guess whooping cranes use the same migration route.
There's more than a healthy population of swans so I don't know why AB doesn't capitalize and sell a few tags for them.
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Old 09-13-2017, 09:16 PM
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Ya I guess whooping cranes use the same migration route.
There's more than a healthy population of swans so I don't know why AB doesn't capitalize and sell a few tags for them.
Exactly, there is a season in Montana for Tundra swans, they literally come into my spread in the spring so I may as well shoot a few swans if the snows dont want to.
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Old 09-13-2017, 11:38 PM
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they literally come into my spread in the spring so I may as well shoot a few swans if the snows dont want to.
Snow geese shoot swans?
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Old 09-14-2017, 09:36 AM
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Snow geese shoot swans?
Yea dude, them snows tend to steal shotguns from the hunters as a way to really embarrass them.
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Old 09-16-2017, 09:41 PM
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Exactly, there is a season in Montana for Tundra swans, they literally come into my spread in the spring so I may as well shoot a few swans if the snows dont want to.
I see thousands of swans in the fall it seems; I don't think a small lottery type draw would hurt.
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It might well relate to not wanting folks to shoot the Whooping Cranes. .

That's exactly where there is no Sandhill season in Ab. Sask gets to shoot the "ribeyes of the sky" but not sure if other provinces do as well.
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Old 09-13-2017, 11:58 PM
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It might well relate to not wanting folks to shoot the Whooping Cranes. Sure, the two don't look much alike, but I'd bet there are a good number of swans shot in our province every year by morons who can't tell them from a Snow Goose. Not to mention that at sloughs in the Calgary area, I have found shot gulls, grebes, night-herons, etc.
Not sure how any of this would be affected by a sandhill season. Those idiots who shoot these birds don't care about seasons or anything else.
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Old 09-14-2017, 07:09 AM
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Other than local closures to protect Whooping Cranes, Saskatchewan seems to manage just fine with a Sandhill crane season.

I won't say that there has never been a Whooper shot, because there has - but it is rare indeed.

Still, having the major migration route through Last Mountain and a stop over in Radisson area, we still manage to harvest Sandhill Cranes without endangering protected Whoopers.

I suspect history and politics in play in Alberta, rather than biologically based management of the species.
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