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About 75,000 Bird Lovers Expected For Annual Christmas Bird Count

Noted: “That was the transition period where we started getting away from market hunting and we were starting to appreciate more of the natural resources for what they are not just the consumptive side of it,” said David Drake, a professor of forest and wildlife ecology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a UW-Extension wildlife specialist. “Some really influential people really made birding a cool thing to do.”