DUCK STAMPS: NOT “JUST FOR DUCKS”
The Duck Stamp isn’t just for ducks.
For over seven decades since its creation, the Stamp has delivered more than
$700 million for the acquisition of more than five million acres of crucial
wetland and grassland habitat for the Refuge System. These include fee-title
acquisition and easement properties. Ninety-eight percent of the funds
collected through the Stamp go directly to habitat acquisition in the National
Wildlife Refuge System.
How about all of those non-game bird species helped when duck-stamp money buys
or leases wetland and grassland habitat? Consider: Western Grebe, Least
Bittern, Roseate Spoonbill, Yellow Rail, Black Tern, Black-necked Stilt,
American Avocet, Whimbrel, Stilt Sandpiper, Red Knot, Wilson's Phalarope,
Swallow-tailed Kite, Northern Harrier, Swainson's Hawk, Golden Eagle, Vermilion
Flycatcher, Sedge Wren, Prothonotary Warbler, LeConte's Sparrow, Tricolored
Blackbird, and many, many more.
So, it’s no accident that the Duck Stamp is officially called the Migratory
Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp.
Birders and bird conservationists should make the Stamp a personal annual
requirement. Today, possession and use of the Stamp are part of a broad and
integrated movement to conserve birds in the 21st-century. You can buy your
next Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation [Duck] Stamp starting on 27 June!
[NOTE – Free downloadable artwork available for past Stamps here:
http://www.fws.gov/duckstamps/federal/stamps/fedimages.htm ;]
[NOTE – Image of the 2008-2009 Stamp, with a pair of Northern Pintails can be
found here:
http://www.fws.gov/duckstamps/ ;]
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