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Muleshoe National Wildlife Refuge is a 6,440-acre (26.1 km 2) wildlife refuge located about 20 mi (32 km) south of Muleshoe, Texas, on Texas State Highway 214.It is the oldest national wildlife refuge in Texas, having been established as the Muleshoe Migratory Waterfowl Refuge by executive order of President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1935. [1]
An estimated 1.4 million sandhill cranes are found in six migratory populations in North America, according to a 2023 report in the Platte River Natural Resource Reports. Most of the birds, about ...
The sandhill crane (Antigone canadensis) is a species of large crane of North America and extreme northeastern Siberia. The common name of this bird refers to their habitat such as the Platte River, on the edge of Nebraska's Sandhills on the American Great Plains. Sandhill cranes are known to frequent the edges of bodies of water.
The Brazoria National Wildlife Refuge is a 44,414-acre (179.74 km 2) [1] wildlife conservation area along the coast of Texas (USA), east of the towns of Angleton and Lake Jackson, Texas. It borders Christmas Bay and the Intracoastal Waterway , separated from the Gulf of Mexico by Follet's Island .
The sandhill crane is currently protected in the state. In addition to approval from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, a hunting season would require the Legislature to pass and governor to sign ...
A committee on sandhill cranes will meet Wednesday to discuss its findings and potential bills to assist farmers with crane-caused crop damage.
The species with the smallest estimated population is the whooping crane, which is conservatively thought to number 50–249 mature individuals, [5] and the one with the largest is the sandhill crane, which has an estimated population of 450,000–550,000 mature individuals.
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