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Jim Carpenter opened the first Wild Birds Unlimited store in 1981 in Indianapolis, Indiana. By 1983, Carpenter started franchising his concept. [citation needed] Wild Birds Unlimited has grown to over 300 stores across the United States and Canada. [1] The company provides the products and services that help people bring birds into their backyards.
The Eliminator name was first used by Kawasaki in 1985 on the ZL900 A1 motorcycle, creating one of the first "sport cruisers" by using a sport bike engine in a cruiser frame. Since then, the name has been used on a variety of models ranging from 124 cc to 997 cc in engine displacement .
Upland hunters use all types of shotguns from break-action single-shots to semi-automatics, calibered from .410 bore through to 12-gauge.The quintessential shotgun for upland hunting is a double-barrel shotgun in a smaller gauge such as a 16-, 20-or 28-gauge, using small round pellets known as birdshots, which are also commonly used in duck hunting.
Alan Webb, the high school record holder. This is a list of American high school students who have run a four-minute mile since the feat was first accomplished in 1964.. The first person to run the mile (1,760 yards, or 1,609.344 metres) in under four minutes was Roger Bannister in 1954, in a time of 3:59.4. [1]
It is composed of 504 pages and contains accounts for 967 species of birds. The fifth edition involved the addition of thumb-tabs for general bird families such as hawks, sandpipers, warblers, etc. [4] The fifth addition also incorporates an accidental species list. This section includes 67 species that have occurred in North America fewer than ...
The passenger pigeon was once among the most abundant wild bird species in the world, with a single flock numbering up to 2.2 billion birds. It was hunted close to extinction for food and sport in the late 19th century. The last individual, a mateless female named Martha after Martha Washington, died in the Cincinnati Zoo in 1914.
The male was 390 to 410 mm (15.4 to 16.1 in) in length, mainly gray on the upperparts, lighter on the underparts, with iridescent bronze feathers on the neck, and black spots on the wings. The female was 380 to 400 mm (15.0 to 15.7 in), and was duller and browner than the male overall.
The Sea Birds Preservation Act of 1869 was passed in the United Kingdom as the first nature protection law in the world [17] after extensive lobbying from the Association for the Protection of Sea-Birds. [18] The Game Act 1831 (1 & 2 Will. 4. c. 32) protected game birds by establishing close seasons when they could not be legally taken. The act ...