WILDLIFE IDENTIFICATION

“Look-a-Likes” — These are protected animals which look likehunted species. For example the meadowlark can be mistaken forquail or dove. Both many times fly together or inhabit the samefields. Roadrunners could be mistaken for chachalacas. Americankestrels (sparrow hawks) can look like doves. Many protectedsparrows and song birds look like the unprotected housesparrow. Double-crested cormorants and other shorebirds looklike geese and ducks. One hunter in 1989 shot a whoopingcrane, mistaking it for asnow goose. All theseremind hunters to be sureof their target beforepulling the trigger.Meadowlark(Protected)USFWSRestricted Species 45