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| All About Armadillos
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Have a pesky armadillo digging up the sod in your yard?
Just be glad you don’t have a South American giant armadillo, which can weigh up to 130 pounds and tear up a heck of a lot more landscaping than the little 10-lb. nine-banded armadillos we have in the U.S.
GON recently got a letter from a reader asking point-blank, “What’re armor dillers good for, anyway?”
Well, our reader’s misnomer is more appropriate than you might think. Armadillo roughly translated from Spanish means “little armored one,” and unless you developed a taste for them in Depression-era Texas—where they were known as Hoover hogs and eaten regularly—they really aren’t good for much of anything.
They are used in laboratory research of leprosy because they carry the disease, but that isn’t necessarily a good thing, is it? Not only can armadillos carry leprosy, it is speculated they can pass it...
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Our mission was simple: Strike out before daylight, walk for a half hour and arrive in an area of hardwoods at shooting light and start squirrel hunting. A friend of mine had seen some hog sign in this particular area back during turkey season, and I was curious to see if the rooters were still hanging around.
I was spending the day...
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If you’ve never duck hunted in the coastal marshes of Altamaha WMA Waterfowl Management Area, where you’ve got a better-than-average chance to fill your limit with a variety of different duck species, you have been missing out. Last year’s Altamaha WMA duck hunters on Butler Island had the best season ever, according to records...
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Record numbers of ducks are to the north of us, and duck hunters may see a lot of birds this year based on population estimates from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Also, the limit on scaup has increased from two to four because of those estimates.
It was a banner year for breeding duck surveys, with a total estimate of 48.6...
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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s (USFWS) 2011 Waterfowl Population Status report shows potential for good waterfowl seasons this year. Also, biologists are seeing good things from local ducks and geese.
WRD waterfowl biologist Greg Balkcom said excellent habitat conditions in the areas Georgia’s birds migrate from...
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Darkness was approaching fast. With 30 minutes of light, I had to make a change. I only killed one of the two squirrels I’d seen during an evening stalk on an Altamaha River water oak flat. With no wind, temperature near 50, and a cold windy front the next day, squirrel activity should have been high. I realized then where I needed to be....
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Across the hills and hollers of north Georgia, you can hear the howling of coon dogs on any given night of winter. Whether the dogs are out working or just begging to be released, one thing’s for sure: no raccoon is safe. If the hound dogs’ noses get one whiff of them, they’ll either be run up a tree or sent packing straight back...
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