Each year hunters kill more than 100 million animals. The following statistics are selected species from state wildlife agency reports from the 1996/97 hunting season (courtesy of the Fund for Animals). These figures do not include the hundreds of thousands animals killed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture's "Wildlife Services" agency each year.

Bear

24,465

Cranes

12,628

Deer

6,084,531

Doves

35,000,000

Ducks

16,569,100

Geese

3,134,100

Grouse/Quail/Partridges

12,209,159

Pheasants

6,861,987

Rabbits

12,873,454

Raccoons

3,518,888

Squirrels

26,655,926

Swans

1,463

Turkeys

615,548