10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
This is a bird that flew over 3,400 miles in one flight from Brazil to South Carolina, an amazing bird that is representative of every other Whimbrel. It is estimated that tens of thousands of shorebirds continue to be taken annually by hunting clubs on just these three islands.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2011
Illegal capture for the wild animal trade is an obvious peril for such a charismatic species, but this big blue bird is also hunted both for its meat and feathers. As much as 21% of Brazil is covered by the little-known but precious savanna, yet the Cerrado is disappearing faster than the Amazon rainforest (and you know that’s fast!)
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 13, 2017
Last week I wrote about the interesting hunting habits of our local Harris’s Hawks. There is a small population in Brazil, Paraguay, Bolivia, and northern Argentina. Today I will cover another one of Mexico’s Baja Peninsulas characters, the Zone-tailed Hawk Buteo Albonotatus.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
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. Egyptian tomb painting depicting duck hunting in the marshes, from the eBook version of Birds and Us, © 2022, Tim Birkhead and Princeton University Press.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 28, 2011
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
September 2017, Cerrado, Brazil. It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. We are cautioned to keep the location of the eagle a secret.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2016
Because they like to hunt in the tree canopy , they will also eat “iguanas, parrots, porcupines, coatimundis, and raccoons.” ” While they can live in human-modified environments, they are threatened both by deforestation and hunting, and less than 50,000 remain in the wild. .”
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