{"id":37891,"date":"2022-11-30T14:22:02","date_gmt":"2022-11-30T19:22:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/?p=37891"},"modified":"2022-11-30T14:32:50","modified_gmt":"2022-11-30T19:32:50","slug":"2023-2024-migratory-game-bird-stamp-design-contest-winner-announced","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/2022\/11\/30\/2023-2024-migratory-game-bird-stamp-design-contest-winner-announced\/","title":{"rendered":"2023-2024 Migratory Game Bird Stamp Design Contest Winner Announced"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Second-time Winner Takes 49th Annual Competition<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 451px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/52534680318_97003386cb.jpg\" alt=\"Painted image of three American wigeons in marshy area\" width=\"441\" height=\"311\" \/><p class=\"wp-caption-text\">&#8220;Marsh Buddies,&#8221; painting by Gerry Putt. Maryland Department of Natural Resources image.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Maryland Department of Natural Resources<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0is pleased to announce that Gerry Putt won this year\u2019s Migratory Game Bird Stamp Design Contest. Putt of Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania, won the 49th annual contest with his stunning painting of three American wigeons, titled \u201cMarsh Buddies.\u201d<\/span><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cWe had a fantastic group of entries representing many species of waterfowl,\u201d <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/dnr.maryland.gov\/wildlife\/Pages\/default.aspx\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Wildlife and Heritage Service<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u00a0Director Paul Peditto said. \u201cThis was our largest number of entries in recent years. We appreciate and thank all of the artists who participated this year.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">This is Putt\u2019s second time winning the Stamp Design Contest.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cIt is always a fun contest and I\u2019m thrilled and honored to win,\u201d said Mr. Putt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Beginning next year, the 2023-2024 Maryland Migratory Game Bird Stamp will no longer be physically produced and distributed. Hunters<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"> must possess the printed receipt showing proof of purchase of the Maryland Migratory Game Bird Stamp while hunting migratory game birds. Hunters will not be required to sign and attach the Maryland Migratory Game Bird Stamp to their license.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Second-time Winner Takes 49th Annual Competition The\u00a0Maryland Department of Natural Resources\u00a0is pleased to announce that Gerry Putt won this year\u2019s Migratory Game Bird Stamp Design Contest. Putt of Boiling Springs, Pennsylvania, won the 49th annual contest with his stunning painting of three American wigeons, titled \u201cMarsh Buddies.\u201d<\/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":[5239,4046,5045],"class_list":["post-37891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-appnews","category-hunting","category-wildlife","tag-art-contest","tag-maryland-migratory-game-bird-stamp","tag-wildlife-and-heritage-service"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37891","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=37891"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37891\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37894,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37891\/revisions\/37894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.maryland.gov\/dnr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}