10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2015

As we speak, in Serbia these birds are still hunted in August and September. Local bird protection NGOs have been demanding a hunting ban on both Quails and Turtle Doves ever since. Allow me to take you back in time, to November 2014. As a result, on June 19 the Ministry announced a two years hunting ban on Turtle Dove.

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FEBRUARY 20, 2014

The photo at the top of this post is from Adam’s awesome post on seeing a Snow Leopard hunt. Whatever your plans this weekend, make time to enjoy SkyWatch Friday. Also be sure to come back Monday to share your best bird of the weekend ! Birding February weekend'

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Snow Leopard Leopards 2014 Birds 167

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JULY 17, 2013

The Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp Act , which went into effect seventy-nine years ago on July 1, 1934, authorized the annual issuance of what is popularly known as the Duck Stamp. In 1976, Congress changed the official name to the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp , presumably to broaden its appeal to non-hunters.

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Ducks Wildlife Hunters Hunting 261

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2014

I am not anti-hunting. However, I will pick a fight with the Rip Van Winkle Rod and Gun Club in Palenville, New York, which is sponsoring their fourth annual “Crow Down” March 29-30, 2014. The “Crow Down” is a “hunting contest” where both adults and children slaughter as many crows as they possibly can in two days.

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Killing Slaughter Slaughtered Animal Abuse 272

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2014

Fishing accounted for 21 percent and hunting 7 percent. Coinciding with these figures is something we have suspected for a long time, the majority of Recreational Visitor Days are attributable to non-consumptive activities, followed by fishing activities and hunting activities. On March 5, 2014, the U.S. Case in point.

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Ducks Wildlife Hunting Fish 254

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Stories enhance his 2014 history of modern ornithology, Ten Thousand Birds ( co-written with Jo Wimpenny and Bob Montgomerie). He continues with images found in illuminated manuscripts such as Catherine of Cleves’s Book of Hours and Frederick II of Germany’s On the Art of Hunting With Birds.

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Dissection Birds Research Europe 259

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JANUARY 2, 2024

of Chicago Press, 2014). Hauber Hauber’s mini-essays focus on specific behaviors, enhanced by references to recent research yet written in a relaxed, personal way. He has spent time studying and teaching in New Zealand and more recently in Germany, which explains some of the bird choices in this book.

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Chicago Barn Owls Penguins New Zealand 226

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2014

As part of my commitment to birding excellence in 2014, I signed up for eBird alerts — receiving messages each time a bird not yet on my year list is reported in Missoula County. We arrived at Maclay Flat just in time to see three men unloading the sort of heavy-duty optics and camera equipment that signals serious birders on the hunt.

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Owls Minnesota Montana 2014 252

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OCTOBER 29, 2014

I had a great time back in 2012 and even more fun in 2014. The most likely bird would be Fulvous Whistling-Duck which I tried for and dipped on last year thanks to the refuge that was good for them being closed for hunting on the day that I made the attempt. I certainly can’t wait for 21 January 2015!

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2015 Wildlife Florida Birds 229

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2019

In birding, perhaps only the proverbial wild goose chase and snipe hunt rank below owling in terms of expected success. Para Maria de los Tecolates is a California red wine blend from Stolpman Vineyards of Santa Barbara County, released every year since 2014. There’s the whole role of chance in owling, too.

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2017 Owls Game California 153

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2015

Soon after carnivores that could hunt on land evolved, things like ancestral centipedes. Science 12 December 2014: 346 (6215), 1253293 [DOI:10.1126/science.1253293]. For a long time the plants were mostly left untouched but their dead leaves and protoleaves were consumed by things like ancestral millipedes. Erickson, and David J.

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Rodents Primates Bats Science 214

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Their names echo musically in my brain (and challenge my typing skills) as I look at photos fuzzy and sharp, and read tales of habitat encroachment, avian disease, and hunting. Princeton University Press, 2014 (also published by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2013). The story of the Mamo is particularly poignant. by Errol Fuller.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 270

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2014

There is a breeding pair of White-tailed Eagles at the Veliko Ratno Island and they can be seen year-round, but the best chances are in winter, when they hunt ducks around the island. In March and November, Common Cranes are a possibility. eBird list. More: 10000birds.com/all-my-patches.htm.

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Serbia Birds Ducks Eagles 254

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2016

This species, one of the heaviest birds able to fly, was once common through most of southern and central Europe and all the way to Mongolia, but was driven to extinction by hunting and changes in agricultural practises in most of its European range during the 19th and early 20th century.

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Germany Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 104

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AUGUST 4, 2015

million by the EPA in 2012 and was sold to Global Harvest Foods in 2014. The 2011 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation , p.36, Scott’s was fined $12.5 If any of the authors would like to respond, I would welcome an explanation. ——————– *U.S.

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America Industry Birds Squirrels 249

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

The two-page spread, shown above, gives a history of the species interaction with humans (fortunately, it does not taste good so it is not actively hunted) and documents records for each of the four areas covered by the guide. Press, March 2014; UK: John Beaufoy Publishing Ltd; 2014. By Quentin Phillipps and Karen Phillipps.

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Brunei Birds Asia China 195

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2021

A brief personal digression: I moved back into the house I grew up in back in 2014, my parents vacated at the end of 2016. At night, we keep our eyes out for the passage of the neighborhood Barn Owl , oftentimes a Tropical Screech-Owl would hunt insects from a low perch on our almond tree.

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Opossums Barn Owls Hunting Reptiles 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2014

But, like everyone else, my 2014 year list started at zero and I couldn’t wait to get it going! Get to my early morning birding destination while it was still dark, sit in the car with the radio on to prevent the inadvertent identification of a run-of-the-mill bird by voice, and wait for a Short-eared Owl to fly past on the hunt.

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2014 Fox Birds Owls 178

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

One study found that birds living in Botswana had elevated levels of lead in their bloodstreams during hunting season, presumably coming from lead bullets used on animals killed by hunters. According to the Eponym Dictionary of Birds (Helm, 2014), “James Sligo Jameson (1856–1888) was an Irish hunter, explorer, and naturalist.

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Elephants Birds Congo Africa 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2020

These are fairly simple activities, no scavenger hunts or bird identification exercises, and it occurred to me that some are activities I thought up on my own in past years, to work through with my nephews. © 2014, 2019, Brooklyn botanic Garden, Inc. © 2014, 2019, Brooklyn botanic Garden, Inc.

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Los Angeles 2019 Birds 2014 264

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JANUARY 3, 2015

From a global low of less than 300 birds in the late 80’s, the species has recovered to 2726, according to a survey in early 2014. Habitat destruction, disease and hunting are still major problems that affect the conservation efforts, but the breeding sites and wintering grounds now have international protection.

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Taiwan North Korea Vietnam 2003 240

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MAY 22, 2022

If you look at this post that I did in December 2014 you will see how different the track looked then. If they are hunting you will undoubtedly find out if there are Nankeen Night-herons in the area when they take off. There are often both Sacred Kingfishers and Red-backed Kingfishers in the boab trees and also Blue-winged Kookaburras.

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Geese Ducks Breeding 2015 244

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Market prices have tracked demand: in 1987 birds retailed for $ 14, rising to $ 44 in 2014 and $ 99 in 2016.” The only explanation I have for this unequal treatment is that it must be a witch hunt. If that all sounds a bit too exciting to you, why not look at photos of the Brown Fulvetta ?

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Los Angeles Birds Woodpeckers Owls 232

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Let’s take this thought–that some birds should be extinct–and apply it to some actual extinct birds.

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Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 106

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

There are two excellent guides to the birds of Borneo: Phillipps’ Field Guide to the Birds of Borneo: Sabah, Sarawak, Brunei, and Kalimantan , 3rd Edition , by Quentin Phillipps and Karen Phillips, (2014), and Birds of Borneo: Brunei, Sabah, Sarawak, and Kalimantan by Susan Myers (2009).

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Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 159

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The closest I’ve ever come to breaking that run was in 2014, when I only had six lifers all year. But in 2020, with all my travel plans cancelled and pretty much everything shut down, I wasn’t straying too far from Albany, New York for birding.

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2020 Birds Costa Rica Germany 262

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2014

That’s probably not such a bad place to hunt. Live in the moment while you can, grasshoppers… winter holidays are coming. My coolest birding encounter this weekend involved watching a Sharp-shinned Hawk lurking under a highway overpass.

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2014 New York Birds Hunting 192

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Hunting: You may have noticed that the Written Species Accounts include a section on hunting. I am a city girl and until I became a birder my contact with hunting was limited to occasionally seeing dead deer on the tops of cars in upstate New York. So–not a fan of hunting. I was really taken aback when I saw this.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 145

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

The definition of the word HUNT is “to chase or search for game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing.” ” Obviously the dictionary does not equate hunting with conservation. If you have some insane idea that Hunting Is Conservation: I think we all remember the fate of the Passenger Pigeon ?

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