{"id":32340,"date":"2020-12-10T13:58:32","date_gmt":"2020-12-10T18:58:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=32340"},"modified":"2020-12-10T13:59:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-10T18:59:45","slug":"migratory-game-bird-stamp-design-contest-winner-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2020\/12\/10\/migratory-game-bird-stamp-design-contest-winner-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"Migratory Game Bird Stamp Design Contest Winner Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hen and Drake Redhead to Adorn 2021-2022 Hunting Stamps<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 425px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/50703041447_697c00911e.jpg\" alt=\"Illustration of hen and drake redhead\" width=\"415\" height=\"286\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Scott Calpino&#8217;s rendering of a hen and a drake redhead will adorn Maryland&#8217;s 2021-2022 migratory game bird hunting stamps.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> is pleased to announce Scott Calpino has won the 47th Annual Migratory Game Bird Stamp Design Contest with his lifelike rendering of a hen and a drake redhead, complete with a beautiful reflection in the water<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cCongratulations to our winner and all participants. It was an excellent collection of entries representing many species of waterfowl,\u201d<\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"> <span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wildlife and Heritage Service<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> Director Paul Peditto said. \u201cWe appreciate and thank all of the artists who participated this year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Calpino, of Bernville, Pa., was awarded top honors from among 25 entries in this year\u2019s contest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cEvery time you enter a contest you hope to win, but don\u2019t expect to, and when you do it\u2019s always a pleasant surprise,\u201d Calpino said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The artwork will be featured on the <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/hunt_trap\/mgb_stamps.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">stamps hunters purchase to hunt all migratory game birds in the state<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">, with the proceeds funding migratory game bird research and habitat enhancement on public lands.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hen and Drake Redhead to Adorn 2021-2022 Hunting Stamps The Maryland Department of Natural Resources is pleased to announce Scott Calpino has won the 47th Annual Migratory Game Bird Stamp Design Contest with his lifelike rendering of a hen and a drake redhead, complete with a beautiful reflection in the water<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[957,3172,13],"tags":[4960,4046,3030],"class_list":["post-32340","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-hunting","category-wildlife","tag-hunting","tag-maryland-migratory-game-bird-stamp","tag-waterfowl"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32340","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32340"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32340\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32343,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32340\/revisions\/32343"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32340"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32340"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32340"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}