Alberta crane hunting!

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I saw the proposed changes to migratory bird hunting regulations.. numerous changes out east (less eider hunting, more merganser), changing some season & bag limits in QC, ON & MB on Canada & Snow Geese. More pinatils allowed to be bagged in the prairies. Not much change in BC/YT/NWT/NU, BUT a proposal for a sandhill crane hunting season in Alberta! Excluding the southeast part where Whooping Cranes are known to pass through. Good news in my book. A lot closer than SK or MB.

https://www.canada.ca/en/environment-climate-change/services/migratory-game-bird-hunting/consultation-process-regulations/report-series/proposals-amend-document-2019.html
 
We often see them in the fall north east Alberta when they are flying south.
I suspect thier major flyways are further east of Cold Lake/Bonnyville but I am not really sure?
I know friends near Saskatchewan Landings used to get a dearth of them earliest fall season of migratory.
 
They have talked about opening a sandhill crane hunt in Ontario for many years. My cottage is in a flyway and we have tens of thousands of cranes flying through and working the fields from August through the end of October. A marsh lake at the back of our property is a roost lake and we watch (and HEAR), thousands fly in every evening and out every morning. The morning exodus is an impressive sight.
 
limit time said:
Damn I would be all over hunting them ! I’ve been told the are the “pork of the sky”.
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I'd just shoot them to shut them up, if for no other reason. Not many where i live, but you can sure tell where they are. :) guess we're on the Whooping Crane flyway and that's the reason there hasn't been a season.

Grizz
 
A little off topic, but I came upon three Whooping Cranes this Spring. I pulled into a field with tractor and implement, stopped to go into work position and noticed these big buggers strutting around about 50 yds off. It took a couple of minutes to sink in that they were Whooping Cranes. My Dad and I saw a few flying over his farm about 60 years ago, when they were really scarce.

My old school chum and I shot a Sandhill Crane back in about 1965ish. The thing stunk so bad from being in a rank slough. Would have had to been a lot hungrier than we were to have considered eating it. We have traveled to Yellowknife a few times in the summer, and see the little ones along the highway, in the ditches.
 
I had never seen one out here, then about 5 years ago they started to show up.
Seeing more and more every year, hope they open a season on them I'd love to try one.

JJ
 
kjohn said:
A little off topic, but I came upon three Whooping Cranes this Spring. I pulled into a field with tractor and implement, stopped to go into work position and noticed these big buggers strutting around about 50 yds off. It took a couple of minutes to sink in that they were Whooping Cranes. My Dad and I saw a few flying over his farm about 60 years ago, when they were really scarce.

My old school chum and I shot a Sandhill Crane back in about 1965ish. The thing stunk so bad from being in a rank slough. Would have had to been a lot hungrier than we were to have considered eating it. We have traveled to Yellowknife a few times in the summer, and see the little ones along the highway, in the ditches.
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Calgary zoo. it was damned cold, but they didn't seem concerned. Gather they have a program raising them. :)

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Grizz
 
More and more in the real south west of ontario
Id love a season on them but id hate to deal with the wife over storing a dozen full size crane dekes after i threw out her xmas decorations to get more space in my garage lol
 
I shot one this year, was all jazzed up to enjoy my "ribeye". Turns out my Canadian goose taste much better (IMO). It was a cool bird to see close up, but next time I will let them fly by, much like I do with ducks.
 
Cook a sandhill crane low and slow, in a stew, or fast and rare on the BBQ. If you roast them like a domestic bird they are almost inedible, and so people who don't know how to cook them make bad jokes about rocks. People who do know how to cook them love 'em.
 
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