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Satellite-Tracking Shorebird Survives Hurricane Only To Be Shot By Hunters

by Charles Fishburne
Wed, 09/14/2011
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Researchers at VCU and the College of William and Mary, say that a valuable satellite-tracking shorebird survived a hurricane and several thousand miles of travel over open water, only to be shot by hunters on Guadaloupe. Charles Fishburne reports.

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