10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

One of my most memorable outings was a night-time game drive in Kenya when we saw an aardvark and a zorilla, so we ticked off both the first mammal in the field guide’s index, and the last. I viewed them at dusk, through a telescope, from a ridge overlooking the area they were hunting.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

It’s a good thing too, because it is the leading gamebird in North America in terms of total harvest and the widespread distribution of hunting effort. Approximately one million hunters annually harvest more than 20 million Mourning Doves , which exceeds the annual harvest of all other migratory game birds combined 3.

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2009

PETA has launched a spoof site for the Vancouver Olympic Games over seal hunting. Seal hunting is just plain wrong. I criticize PETA a lot, but in this case I think they are right on the money. I hate the seal slaughter. I think it's barbaric and should be ended. Slavery used to be a tradition in some societies.

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NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Now that I have driven that to a state of relative completion and I am compelled to return to the forest, I learned that the government here has re-opened the hunting season. After experiencing the ebb and flow of energies over the years with the coming and going of the annual five month long hunting season, the strain is plain for me to see.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2023

This is the usual game viewing routine in reserves of Africa and India. Pity, it is the sleeping hours and not the hunting (morning/evening), but at least they are not forced to socialise with people all day. In Africa, no one goes at mid-day because of the heat (making animals lazy and people drowsy).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2022

This is the usual game viewing routine in reserves of Africa and India. Pity, it is the sleeping hours and not the hunting (morning/evening), but at least they are not forced to socialise with people all day. In Africa, no one goes at mid-day because of the heat (making animals lazy and people drowsy).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2011

Bald Eagle image is by Francois Portmann and is used with permission You know, I’ve been thinking about this whole dustup over hunting cranes in Tennessee and now Kentucky. I think it’s time to hunt Sandhill Cranes. We’ve always hunted Bald Eagles. There was a lot of hunting for Bald Eagles—it is traditionally a game species.

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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. As a result, on June 19 the Ministry announced a two years hunting ban on Turtle Dove. Left: David Lindo, a.k.a.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2020

House-hunting, apparently. Looks like it should have played an extra in “Game of Thrones” Brahminy Kite. These photos were actually taken right from my hotel room. No surcharge for the room despite being perfect for birders. Black-necked Stork. Black-rumped Flameback. Black-winged Kite. Brahminy Starling.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

They have adapted a form of communal living, to the point of cooperative hunting techniques. One of these methods is where one bird will fly down thru an arroyo, and spook out the game for its waiting members of the pack. they repeated this several times before getting bored with the game and flew away.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The number of people who hunt waterfowl in the US has declined since the mid 1990s. From the abstract of the study: Current waterfowl populations provide liberal hunting seasons, but waterfowl hunter numbers have declined since the mid–1990s. allowing access for duck hunting with a reduced bag limit, another ($30?)

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

While much of the attention that Africa’s tourism industry gets is for its (deservedly) popular national parks and game reserves, a lot of wildlife viewing is possible away from the big name places. Brown-hooded Kingfishers hunt far from water. The reserve had several francolins, like this Crested Francolin. You decide.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

The legislature named the grouse the state bird in 1931 , and as it is a game bird it is legal to hunt them in the fall and winter seasons. No, you have not stumbled upon a WWI re-enactment, but a startled Ruffed Grouse , the state bird of Pennsylvania.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

” Most shrugged and said very few US falconers fly owls because they’re slow and some species you can only hunt at night, that wouldn’t be much fun to watch. If anything, falconry birds like the above red-tailed hawk are a hunting partner, especially wild caught birds. Falconers starve their birds.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2015

Another day, another dead lion erupting in the world’s media, another opportunity for me to annoy my few remaining anti-hunting friends. For being a girl that beat a guy in a computer game. For being a feminist with an opinion on comic books, or games. Go read his take. I’ll wait. . For speaking out about bullying.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2011

As you’ll remember, Kentucky’s Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources unanimously passed its sandhill crane hunting proposal. The public comment period on the Kentucky sandhill crane hunting proposal ends AUGUST 1 2011. Here are six top reasons to protest this hunt. The proposal now goes to the U.S. Street, N.W.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The wildlife official in question is the President of the California Fish and Game Commission. He is a proponent of trophy hunting and was photographed with a dead mountain lion in Idaho. Full story here.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

They were heavily hunted as food, and for the feathers. There were other people in the vicinity who witnessed the swans flying into the water and being shot,” said Jenni,… DNR non-game wildlife specialist Lori Naumann believes the higher number of trumpeter swans visiting the hospital this season is for two reasons.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

The first most readers have probably been aware of, the cheerleader hunter who has been in the news for, well, hunting game animals and being attractive and blonde. I’ve written before about how I don’t think shooting game in the name of conservation is necessarily a bad idea. Sustainable hunting doesn’t.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2016

There were five issues and recommendations of the group: Issue 1: The conservation benefits of the Duck Stamp are poorly understood among the wildlife viewing community and the public, as well as among much of the hunting community. a) Recommendation : Identify new (non-hunting/recreational) uses for the Duck Stamp.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. However it is now one of the world’s rarest animals after decades of relentless hunting and poaching. Black Rhinos are best sought in South Africa, Namibia and Tanzania. to the far reaches of freezing Siberia.

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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. A Great Horned Owl illustrated in Game Birds: Life Histories of One Hundred and Seventy Birds of Prey, Game Birds and Water-Fowls by Neltje Blanchan. There’s the whole role of chance in owling, too.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Together with African Kori Bustard (which I observed on a camping trip in the Central Kalahari Game Reserve), this is the heaviest flying bird in the world. Habitat destruction combined with hunting has pushed them away from their former breeding grounds. m–8 ft 10 in).

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Developed in the post-frontier era, the NAMWC helped put a stop to wanton wildlife destruction in an era where many species were being hunted and trapped ruthlessly to the brink of extinction. George Wuerthner, an ecologist and former hunting guide with a degree in wildlife biology, takes the debate a step further. Smith and Donald A.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Dan Richards, president of the California Fish and Game Commission, is shown in the photo, holding a mountain lion he reportedly hunted and killed in Idaho, according to Western Outdoor Press, which published the photo. Hunting mountain lion is legal in Idaho, but illegal in California.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

Wikipedia reports that he “was an excellent tennis player and an enthusiastic big game hunter. Yes, I know it is getting a bit boring, but the scientific species name of the Rufous-headed Parrotbill, bakeri , honors yet another British ornithologist, Edward Charles Stuart Baker (1864-1944).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2015

Wayne Bailey-Caswell Game Land a little past 2 p.m. Certain areas within the Game Land are managed for American Woodcock and Northern Bobwhite , specifically perpetuating the secondary successional habitats they love so much. My fiance and I arrived at the R. Yes, score one for Erika. Blue-gray Gnatcatcher.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2015

As this series has already shown us, ornithological nomenclature is often a game of utter nepotism. She also had an interest in ornithology – in particular, she banned the hunting of falcons. Got a buddy whose birthday you forgot? Thinking about hitting someone up for a loan? Name a bird after them to butter them up!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Proposal: Creation of a Federal Wildlife Conservation Stamp A birder, wildlife watcher, photographer and non-hunter version of the Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp (aka Federal Duck Stamp). She says, “there’s just a cultural bias against anything related to hunting.”

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

The drongo perches above the flock, snatching insects that they disturb, and keeping an eye out for predators that might go unnoticed by its hunting flock-mates. The species is classified as Near Threatened for all the usual depressing reasons – pollution, drainage, hunting, and the collection of eggs and nestlings ( source ).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2019

While the hunting of game with trained birds of prey can be a controversial topic among birders , falconry was a valuable early source of information on birds, and its history, culture, and imagery continue to fascinate bird lovers, as we shall see. A portrait of Mary (ca. 1490) attributed to Tyrolian painter Michael Pacher.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2012

The bird eluded me for nearly 20 years until I stumbled across one at Phinda Private Game Reserve , where I worked in northern KwaZulu-Natal. It was early afternoon and myself and a few of the other game rangers were out birding a productive fig forest close to Mkuze Game Reserve, our neighbor to the north of Phinda.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2019

While the hunting of game with trained birds of prey can be a controversial topic among birders , falconry was a valuable early source of information on birds, and its history, culture, and imagery continue to fascinate bird lovers, as we shall see. es de altaner ía. ( The pursuit of love. is like falconry.).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

Dirt hawking is a form of falconry that involves hunting rabbits and other small game with Harris Hawks (other hawk species also qualify). One of the primary reasons that these hawks make such excellent falconry birds is because they are one of only two raptor species (the other is the Galapagos Hawk ) that hunt cooperatively.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2016

We also knew at the start that a significant percentage of our effort would be devoted to simply convincing people that a new funding tool is not just an imperative, but also something that would have the support of thousands and millions of non-hunting Refuge visitors. But we’re moving closer to our goal. WE NEED YOUR FEEDBACK.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2016

Since then their range has spread across the United States and southern Canada, and they remain a sought-after game species. While hunting plays some role, habitat loss as farms switch to monocultures is the greater culprit. Ring-necked Pheasants are native to Asia, brought over in the 1880’s. These males are striking.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2012

During the middle ages, a specialised vocabulary became popular in the sport of hunting. Most of the collective nouns would have been used to describe animals that were hunted for sport which is disturbing when one considers a Parliament of Owls for example, a Herd of Wrens or a Stand of Flamingos.

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