10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2015

Neighbor B tells her that his cats wouldn’t be happy indoors, that cats’ hunting is “natural,” and that he has no intention of keeping his cats inside. Enough hand-wringing, enough taking butchered birds to exhausted, emotionally drained wildlife rehabilitators. Neighbor A asks neighbor B to contain his cats.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Wildlife Rehabilitation 259

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

My work as a wildlife rehabilitator over the past forty-five years has allowed me a unique perspective on a disturbing trend. Consider this: ninety percent of birds treated at wildlife centers are admitted as a result of human interactions that have nothing to do with “nature.” The difference seems obvious.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Rescue Wildlife 190

Critter News

AUGUST 27, 2008

They were all hunting associations AND the National Rifle Association. Wildlife Crime Watch" is a new program implemented by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Emphasis will be placed on wildlife and environmental issues but traditional crime prevention will also be addressed. Sounds intriguing.

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Wildlife Virginia Game Hunting 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2014

I am not anti-hunting. The “Crow Down” is a “hunting contest” where both adults and children slaughter as many crows as they possibly can in two days. It also brings to mind the uncontested link between animal abuse and violent behavior toward fellow humans. So how do you classify these contests? This is baloney.

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Killing Slaughter Slaughtered Animal Abuse 272

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2016

In 2015 a Federal Duck Stamp Task Force was convened under the auspices of the Association of Fish & Wildlife Agencies (AFWA) consisting of seventeen individuals. 1) Action : Change law to allow the e-stamp to suffice as the requirement to hunt waterfowl for the duration of the hunting season. 1) Action : U.S.

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Ducks Hunters Hunting Wildlife 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Set in an abandoned oil refinery where wildlife is slowly regaining control save for the desperate attempts of golfers to retain all eighteen holes, industrial ghosts loom over rolling freshwater lakes bordered by fifty foot tall trees. These scarce residents are rarely seen – and even when visible, are usually quite wary of humans.

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Trinidad Birds Parrots Falcons 259

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

“I’ve seen her around, when I was setting my traps,” said the trapper himself, who brought her to Tamarack Wildlife Center , in Saegertown, PA. This is why certain wildlife rehabilitators end up misanthropic and homicidal. If all her other toes eventually function perfectly, she could still hunt without that one non-essential talon.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Birds Delaware 240

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

Survival rates of chicks increase when there are helpers present – and if in captivity this is not an option, humans can also take the place of helpers ( source ). Fish & Wildlife Service has a web page for this species – but it contains absolutely no information. ” ( source ).

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Burma India Birds Indonesia 245

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2014

Most were introduced, meaning they were brought to Florida by humans. However, captive-reared mallards are being unlawfully released by humans in large numbers in Florida. Mallards did not occur in New Zealand naturally, but were released to provide hunting stock. One such species is the familiar mallard (Anas platyrhynchos).

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Florida Ducks New Zealand Feral 251

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2013

The survival of songbirds depends in part upon eliminating illegal hunting. That means passing over the Mediterranean Sea and the Middle East, where you’re liable to get shot, trapped, or otherwise hunted. Thanks to a little human intervention, the future looks much brighter for Millerbirds. Fish and Wildlife Service). **And

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Cambodia Slaughter Slaughtered Cyprus 155

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2014

The population growth seems to be linked to increased winter survival — the result of increased agricultural food supply and wildlife refuges managed specifically to increase populations of ‘game’ birds to the exclusion of other goals — as well as milder Arctic breeding seasons. The result?

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Geese Montana Breeding Pelicans 210

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Not sure why they spend time in Shanghai in winter when they could come here though, but then again, I usually do not understand most of the behavior of humans either. The Oriental Darter is classified as Near Threatened – the reasons are the usual ones: habitat loss, hunting, and pollution. of its hunts are successful.

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Birds Eagles Elephants Rhinoceros 246

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. Regular readers of this site might be able to think of a much discussed example, that of birding on National Wildlife Refuges versus hunting. she’s Texan.

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Rhinos Hunting New Zealand Science 191

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2014

Say a duck hunter knows that the closed pools nearby has ducks and it’s dead in the pool where they are hunting. They call their friend to check the ducks with a drone and the ducks get flushed and go to the hunting pond? Is a regular flight of a drone over a wetland going to affect what birds nest there? Birding technology'

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Bald Eagle Mississippi Eagles Ducks 233

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

This is brought about by a visit to Karori Wildlife Sanctuary/Zealandia, where I was able to catch up with the ducklings that I first saw back in the spring. They are the only endemic duck species that hunting is permitted for, in fact, the other species being either too rare or outright extinct.

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New Zealand Sanctuary Suffering Ducks 166

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2012

They are tolerant of humans and often nest and hunt in residential areas and suburban parks if suitable trees for nests and roosts are available. Birders in Northern California have been treated to rare sightings of several species, sending avid twitchers from all over the west in our direction.

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Owls California Jordan Sparrows 215

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. As visitors’ and the public’s interests expanded from the Big Five, and an appreciation for lesser mammals, birds and smaller wildlife has became more widespread, the term Little Five was coined.

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 244

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

If it is an emergency and since I get calls and texts from all over the country (even a few out of the country), I direct people to Rehabber Search or Wildlife Rehabber. That’s an old wives’ tale that says bird won’t take care of a baby bird with a human smell on it–not true at all. Owls are a little different.

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Birds Fox Raised Ducks 266

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2013

With casual bird watchers out numbering hardcore bird watchers, people with a camera and an interest in wildlife are not going to have all the facts about wildlife before they go out. So they may seem oblivious to a lumbering human with camera equipment, but that’s only because hiding is how they try to evade predators.

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Owls Barn Owls Agenda Zoos 273

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

But in Iraq, and more exactly, Kurdistan and Iraqi Kurdistan, they are supposed to be there (and are regularly hunted and eaten) and the fighting is not supposed to be there. That means crows join humans, apes and monkeys in exhibiting advanced relational thinking, according to the research. BBC has the story as a video.

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Science Iraq Research Birds 156

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2017

He is currently a Fish and Wildlife Technician with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Research Foundation for SUNY. Photographs are powerful instruments in sharing the value of species’ existence and increasing the amount of humans who value species such as Snowy Owls.

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Ethics Owls New York North America 185

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

Then he gave a couple of alternative solutions to the feral cat problem: There are two effective, humane alternatives to the cat hell of TNR. One is Tylenol (the human pain medication) — a completely selective feral-cat poison. Pretty standard. But the TNR lobby has blocked its registration for this use. ” Wait, what?

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Feral Cats Trap Neuter Return Tnr Extremist 272

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2019

But the other subject of A Season on the Wind is Kaufman’s adopted state – or, more precisely, one corner of it, the one that includes the Black Swamp Bird Observatory (“BSBO”) and Magee Marsh Wildlife Area , just west of Toledo. (Kaufman’s wife, Kimberly Kaufman, is the BSBO’s Executive Director.).

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Ohio Bats Legislature Ducks 203

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2016

We have been assured by the California Department of Fish & Wildlife (CDFW) that they are watching this nest also. After all, we want to see this Osprey pair flying in every Spring to carry on their very successful display of breeding prowess without human interference. That is what the Migratory Bird Treaty Act is meant to do.

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Transported Eggs Birds Killing 106

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

While photographing the Brown Bears in the Russian Far East, a friend of mine, Jovan “Lucky” Lakatos, was with Michio Hoshino, Japanese-born nature photographer specialized in Alaskan wildlife and experienced in how to behave facing this apex predator. At some stage, a salmon-hunting bear at a shingle beach came too close, mere 9 steps.

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Animal Bears Stray Dog Blackbirds 119

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

But it wasn’t until he studied falconry’s appeal to centuries-old cultures–the Persians, English, Dutch, French, Chinese, Russians, and people of the Middle East–that Cade realized the sport of kings was slowly dying and would disappear along with the age-old mystique of a raptor returning to the human who trained her.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 213

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

. … The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease. Cats are domesticated animals that are not indigenous wildlife in North America.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 252

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. We politically worship them, but at the same time we’ve severely decreased the numbers of many species by hunting and habitat loss.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 243

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2013

they are the most terrestrial primate after humans. This has resulted in their populations returning to natural levels and their fear of humans being curtailed. In fact Gelada social studies have been of great relevance in analyzing the evolution of human social behavior. A harem male grooms one of his females.

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Ethiopia Primates Mammals Fur 169

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

It’s clear that ibis have been part of human civilization for as long as there has been civilization of which to be part. White-faced Ibis at Colusa National Wildlife Refuge – Larry Jordan, 10,000 Birds. Roseate Spoonbills at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge – Corey Finger, 10,000 Birds. Biblical tales?

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Birds North America Charlotte New Jersey 248

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2012

I love her Carolina Wrens , her Piping Plovers , her Chimney Swifts , her Ivory-billed Woodpeckers , and her Phoebes, both avian and human. The book is loaded with Julie’s art from rough sketches, often helpfully captioned in Julie’s own handwriting, to full-color, full-page reproductions of her wonderful watercolors.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Emotional Woodpeckers Hunting 262

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

And, though I think you can argue that the Bronx Zoo, with its numerous buildings and landscaped wildlife areas is not purely ‘natural space,’ I have wonderful memories of traipsing through its wooded areas when I was a girl. (I I didn’t grow up in the Bronx, but my best friend did.). It’s a very mixed chapter.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 195

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

It’s also about human-owl interaction on an individual level and a wider sociocultural level, and ultimately how we can use all this for habitat and bird conservation. As the names and habitats imply, not all owl species are alike, in behavior, adaptation, relationship to humans, and in how humans perceive them.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 246

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

There are a lot of reasons why Painted Wolves are struggling, and many of them are human caused. It took most of the rest of the day, but finally at around 5 we found the pack literally on the southern fenceline of the reserve, deep inside the hunting concession that made up the bottom of the park.

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Wolves Lions Dogs Vet 210

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Kinabalu (at 13,455 feet the highest peak in southeast Asia), and human development that has resulted in freshwater rice fields, secondary forest, and oil palm plantations, this means that Borneo offers an incredibly high degree of biodiversity.

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Brunei Birds Asia China 205

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public comment on a proposal to hunt sandhill cranes in Kentucky. Kentucky Dept.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 263

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

I got to see a beautiful female and owlet on a trip to a secret nest location near Howard Prairie Lake (human-made nest structures have enhanced local breeding for these huge owls whose nest success is boosted to 83% on artificial platforms vs. 66% at natural sites). Larry’s BBOTY – Great Gray Owl.

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