Winnipeg Free Press

Winnipeg Free Press (Newspaper) - September 8, 1990, Winnipeg, Manitoba Outdoors Deer adapt to change Whitetail Deer seem Whitetail Deer Are despite Habi Tat loss and the increasing encroachment of the Whitetail continues to gifted with the ability to live in close proximity to the Deer can spend their life within sight and sound of dwellings and still remain their numbers Are now far higher than at any time in history in some american Well Over a million animals is the problem is that the existing habitat can carry Only so Many Ani Mals of any when overpopulation disease and death reduce the numbers to an acceptable extinction while some animals were hunted to Many More vanished or Are on the endangered list be cause of human greed for More land and we destroyed their grazing Forest cover and instead weve built fac tories and parking the farm ing Community has turned Choice habitat under the plow and in doing has inadvertently destroyed the wildlife it the Whitetail quickly Learned to Cope with Agri culture in Many it is Only in the past 50 years that they have extended their Range from the Northern states to our once they now number in the thousands simply because they Are one of the few animals that outdoors Mel Dagg adapted to the changing Environ they found the Grain Fields and Brush lots much to their Lik despite the Large number of Deer in this most sportsmen say they Are never easy game to Hunt and can outsmart their Pur surfers Many More times than they Are heavy Bush few things rival the Craft and stealth of a wary old Whitetail they Are masters at hiding and seemingly Able to disappear into thin when they will seek the roughest terrain and heaviest Bush in which to often letting a Hunter pass within a few Steps be fore bursting out behind and Digap any animal that can crawl on its Knees to escape detection or hide a full rack while lying Down in six Inch stubble is not going to be taken easily at any for Many Hunters urged manufacturers to produce rifles that were Flat shooting and capable of taking animals at Long the Bow Hunters and muzzle loaders have proven it takes a lot of patience and experience to collect any big game animal at very close but it can be various scents Are used by Many specifically those Hunting most use commercial Buck or Doe scents but a recent article in the september Issue of outdoor life suggests More Suc Cess can be anticipated with the use of tarsal or metatarsal gland they come from the deers scent glands on legs and Between the while the real thing can be taken from the animal a Commer Call produced product also appears Kijuu since wildlife habitat Canada has been working to preserve wildlife habitat for fish and since waterfowl Hunters in Canada have been required to Pur Chase a wildlife stamp to validate their migratory game Bird Hunting All Revenue from the Sale of the Stamps is directed to since its More than million has been committed to habitat conservation each year who also offers limited edition prints of the these Are works of Well known Ca Nadian artists and generally sell out before his Jimmy Robin son pushed hard for a Canadian wildlife such Stamps and prints were common in the for Many raising millions of Dol Lars for conservation it also made some artists very Rich gulls easy prey for powerful Eagle the Eagle sat quietly perched on an old the minutes ticked endlessly Onward until he had sat there for More than an Sud Denly everything he swooped off his lofty Perch and flew swiftly along the not More than a metre above the one of the Many massive logs scattering the Canadian coast of the Pacific Ocean Lay directly in front of he swept Over it and faced a big flock of Safe distance one of those gulls standing unconcerned on the was his soon he was right in their midst before they could become he had seized gulls Are slow to take when soaring High overhead they Are but definitely not known for Chickadee notes David Hatch Bald eagles take full Wing beats and appear not to be flying quickly when they Are Fly ing faster than one would the unsuspecting Gull was swept off the ground and carried about 250 metres before the Eagle landed on the Beach and proceeded to devour most of the interrupted gulls flew off in but about half a dozen actually followed the Eagle As it slowed through the air with its they followed at a Safe distance quacking people residing in the Prairie provinces and Northwestern often see Bald eagles and Are accustomed to watching eagles plunge into the water and Pluck out a they also see eagles As great scavengers that feast upon dead fish or big game mammals that have died As a result of being wounded by the Bald eagles populating the British Columbia coast Are famous for feeding upon the Salmon that die after there Are Many Bald eagles on Canadas West coast that aggressively pursue and feed upon smaller Many gulls along the coast Are an important food source for in a single Day of birding in Pacific rim National Park on the Western Edge of Vancouver we observed eagles capturing gulls on three separate great flocks of gulls have one of their members suddenly snatched away by an attacking the single Bird alone is nor Mally easy As the predator can concentrate All its efforts on that one on the other an individual Bird is usually More and thus More prepared for an when Birds form they have a tendency to become less attentive they rely on their associates in the flock to warn them of impending in the Case of gulls on the West this is usually fatal where eagles Are the Gull is easy but there Are so Many that the eagles dont make much of a Dent in their the native guides and resident birders inform us that Bald eagles regularly eat not Only gulls on the West but in the Winter also take dabbling ducks and even great Blue Bald eagles scavenge As Well As Hunt for live Falcons slowly Edge away from Brink of extinction by Manfred Jager Falcons May Well be on their Way to being taken off the endangered says the provincial Bob ornithologist with the governments wildlife depart says the Federal government May be bringing the rare raptors Back from the endangered classification Treyve held for several released Nero says he released five Young Birds from Wainwright Canadian wildlife service Breeding facility in Brandon last on he released another six from the University of Manitoba Mary Speechly Hall residence the Canadian wildlife service produces about 300 Peregrine fal con Chicks yearly in enough to Send about a dozen to Manitoba for release hatched Early this the Birds have been Given dead Quail every other Day through an intricate feeding avoiding con tact with humans until there ready to Migrate South this came Back one Peregrine released Here two years ago came Back from South America last year and was joined by a female from elsewhere in the two produced four one of the 1989 hatched on a ledge near the top of the Delta Winnipeg has spent the summer near the University of Manitoba and has been seen there by hundreds of Nero says the older Bird has assumed a paternal role to the which Are now learning to there All chasing a lot of pigeons and other Birds and May actually have caught the Odd Nero our students who observe the fledglings Here have no proof of Nero says he and his students established nesting boxes for fal cons on High Rise apartment build Ings in fort Garry and vital during the hoping to entice last years Chick which returned to the University this summer to come Back next year to Breed pattern once peregrines establish a Pat Tern and reach sexual maturity at age two or they return to their nesting neighbourhood throughout their reproductive Nero they live about 20 years and we know of one female in Montre who nested on top of the Sun life building and bred for 17 years with three different Nero Nero says peregrines will no longer be an endangered species when there Are 60 confirmed Breeding pairs across As of were about half Way he Nero has released 11 build up the rare Birds student adds to Bat knowledge by Martin Zeilig special to the free press a High school students original summer research project has revealed new information about bats at the taiga biological stations in at Kaki provincial says University of Manitoba zoology pro Fessor William we were surprised at How Short a period of time the bats were Active at says founder of the which is situated along the Blind off Wallace in at Kaki 240 Kilometres Northeast of generally bats fill up on insects during the entire so these bats must have gotten a lot of food during that Shorter time the student initiated project was conducted by 17yearold Springfield collegiate Grade 12 student Darren according to Keam also obtained original information on How Long after Sunset the bats waited before coming out and the frequency of their feeding practically everything Darren did was stresses these Are All original records for the there have been Bat Stu Dies in other areas of such As the Interlake but not in at Kaki provincial reams research lasted most of july and Days usually began at 8 when Keam would assist resident research zoologist Michelle Wheatley with daily chores such As cutting firewood and hauling As Keam read numer Ous research papers on bats during the after Sunset when the bats Are i did my own says who lives in i set up a Mist net across the Blind River and waited for the bats to i also had a min electronic Bat Detector which picks up High frequency sounds and makes them audible to i captured four Little Brown bats and one keens Keam adds that the Bat Detector also enabled him to detect the sounds of a hoary bats have an amazing ability to Fly around nets and Keam within a couple of Days of having Strung the Mist they could detect it with their i will write up my study Over the it will be Worth a couple of High school this summer was very everything i Learned at the Tbs will last me for the rest of my shot Shell Bonanza boxes of 25 Hunting licences now available at 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