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Game species that share the same habitats such as elk, deer, antelope, sage-grouse, salmon, trout also benefit from these specialty plates. No state tax dollars are provided for wildlife diversity, conservation education and recreation programs. Neither are any revenues from the sale of hunting or fishing licenses spent on nongame species. Instead, these species depend on direct donations, federal grants, fundraising initiatives—and the Idaho Wildlife license plates.
Both my vehicles have Bluebird Plates. I prefer the bluebird because the nongame program gets 70 percent of the money from bluebird plates, but only 60 percent of the money from elk and trout plates - 10 percent of the money from elk plates supports wildlife disease monitoring and testing programs to benefit the livestock industry and 10 percent from cutthroat plates supports non-motorized boat access.
Incidentally, in , the Idaho Legislature denied the Department of Fish and Game the ability to add new plates or even to change the name of the elk and cutthroat plates very specific to wildlife and fish plates, a move that would have allowed for changing images occasionally and generating more revenue.
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In this guide, we recognize the following categories of young: Precocial Hatched with eyes open, covered with down, and leave the nest within two days. There are four levels of precociality, although only three are found in North American birds. Level 1 of development precocial 1 is the pattern found in the chicks of megapodes Australian Malee fowl, Brush Turkeys, etc.
The megapode young are incubated in huge piles of decaying vegetation, and upon hatching dig their way out, already well feathered and able to fly.
No North American birds show this extreme precociality. Precocial 2 development is found in ducklings and the chicks of shorebirds, which follow their parents but find their own food. The young of game birds, however, trail after their parents and are shown food; they are classified as precocial 3. Precocial 4 development is represented by the young of birds such as rails and grebes, which follow their parents and are not just shown food but are actually fed by them.
If all young were divided into only two categories, altricial and precocial, these all would be considered altricial Altricial Hatched with eyes closed, with little or no down, incapable of departing from the nest, and fed by the parents. Precocial 1. Precocial 2. Ducks, Plovers. Precocial 3. Quail, Turkey. Precocial 4. Grebes, Rails. Gulls, Terns. Semi-altricial 1. Herons, Hawks.
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