10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

Fish and Wildlife Service has announced the death of two Whooping Cranes in Hopkins County, Kentucky. Authorities said the deaths occurred in November but delayed the announcement in order to conduct an investigation and assemble a reward for information. It’s deja vu all over again , sadly.

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Kentucky Killing Endangered Species United States 248

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JULY 17, 2011

As you’ll remember, Kentucky’s Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources unanimously passed its sandhill crane hunting proposal. All eight hunters on the commission think it’s a good idea to shoot cranes in Kentucky. Fish and Wildlife Service for final approval or denial. Why allow hunters to shoot right into the middle of them?

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FEBRUARY 28, 2011

And it looks even better in my hands while I dream about a visit to regions of Brazil I had scarcely heard of before being provided with a review copy of the first volume of the Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil.* Each family of birds has a short introductory paragraph and most genera get a sentence or two of description.

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MAY 21, 2011

As part of my effort to keep concerned wildlife enthusiasts informed about the proposal to hunt Eastern Flyway sandhill cranes, it is my duty to tell you that there’s another vote coming up. of Fish and Wildlife Resources—who will get together on June 3, 2011, to vote on whether to open season on Sandhill Cranes in Kentucky.

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Kentucky Hunting Tennessee Indiana 259

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2016

As a birder, this 72 minute documentary film about the Duck Stamp Contest didn’t accomplish what I was hoping it might – get people excited about the Duck Stamp, or at least wildlife conservation. The film follows several contestants on their journey to win what is described as the “Olympics of Wildlife Art.”

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APRIL 2, 2024

Lead shot injured and killed condors young and old, lead in the carrion they ate, lead in the bullets that hunters shot at them. By focusing on three case studies from a personal, memoir-oriented point of view, Osborn engages our imagination while informing our brain.

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 207

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.”

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Rescue Wildlife 190

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

” are the big questions at the heart of Vagrancy in Birds by Alexander Lees and James Gilroy, an impressive, fascinating book about what ornithologists and wildlife biologists have found out about avian vagrancy so far and their theories explaining this phenomenon. ” and its companion question, “Why is this bird here?”

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 264

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MAY 20, 2016

The nature and purpose of this call is to inform you that we have received an eagle petition concerning a cat filed against you. I’m a wildlife rehabilitator, so I’m always ranting about things like eagles being lead poisoned or songbirds being slaughtered by outdoor and feral cats. For a minute, she had me. Uh-oh, I thought.

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Feral Cats Wildlife Rehabilitation United States Slaughter 102

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APRIL 8, 2019

So, yes, there’s plenty enough information about migration in the book to justify the subtitle. Kaufman knows that duck hunters can be ardent, loving conservationists, too. And dunlins (below), masters of synchronized flying, “convey the full rush of the season, the unstoppable drive that will take them on to the Arctic.”.

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Ohio Bats Legislature Ducks 203

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MARCH 16, 2011

Fish and Wildlife Service desperately needs your feedback as they craft a new vision for our National Wildlife Refuge System. The results will inform a vision document to be adopted in July 2011 at a national conference to guide the NWR system for wildlife protection into the next decade and beyond.

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

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AUGUST 13, 2019

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) attempts to calculate the economic contribution of National Wildlife Refuge visitation to local communities. Rather, birding and other wildlife observation ( e.g., photography) are lumped together as “non-consumptive” uses of a refuge. Every few years, the U.S. billion for local communities.

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Wildlife Maryland San Francisco Minnesota 269

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

There are two things you need to know about A Field Guide to the Wildlife of South Georgia , edited by Robert Burton and John Croxall, and produced by the South Georgia Heritage Trust. The temptation will be to jump to the Wildlife sections. Nor is it about Georgia, the country in Eurasia. Who can resist penguins and whales?

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Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 176

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

David Tipling, award-winning and widely published wildlife photographer, travelled the world during this period, photographing people interacting with birds, and sometimes, just birds. By including these stories, Cocker has created a book that is very much a part of our current information age, in which democracy rules.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 234

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MARCH 2, 2011

This offering is actually hard to part with: a copy of Wildlife Conservation Society Birds of Brazil: The Pantanal and Cerrado of Central Brazil signed by both John Gwynne, who managed the project, and Guy Tudor, eminent neotropical bird artist and art director of the project. Time to give away a wonderful book on 10,000 Birds!

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Deer 197

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MARCH 14, 2011

of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. Hunting is on a steady downturn, and nonconsumptive wildlife pursuits are on a tremendous upswing. We can fight them back in Kentucky, too.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 260

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MARCH 20, 2011

So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? Do all hunters realize that? It gives one to wonder why this designation was made.

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FEBRUARY 2, 2021

And, it is this spirit of acceptance, an embrace of this pristine wilderness and its inhabitants–even when he’s fording a river in icy slush up to his waist or waiting in bitter cold for a fish owl to come into a trap or getting lost in the middle of a snowy nowhere—that informs this book and brings us totally into his world.

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Owls Russia Fish Research 152

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JANUARY 16, 2015

Nearly exterminated in Maine by hunters in the 1800‘s, the charismatic, orange-beaked little puffins nested only on one other state island until Dr. Kress painstakingly – and groundbreakingly – lured them back to nest on Eastern Egg Rock in 1977. Here are some that are: Birds & Beans: Golden Valley; Cafe Ibis.

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Puffins Birds Groups West Virginia 272

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Some of these specimens had labels with basic information and were stored for further work at a later time. These conditions offered easy access to hunters in a habitat where a bird as large as a Guan would have little chances to hide or scape. Guans have also been introduced in the Laquipampa Wildlife Refuge.

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Collecting Peru Neglecting Hunting 270

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

The plethora of approaches to the feral Cat problem is not an outcome of a diversity of great ideas; it is the ugly chimera of inappropriate compromise among biased and often poorly informed stakeholders. Free-ranging domestic cats have been introduced globally and have contributed to multiple wildlife extinctions on islands.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 257

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Very little information was available at the time, so we hired a car and off we went, following the few tips we had managed to gather but mostly our noses. Here local hunters had known about the colony and for generations had been harvesting the birds by simply picking the adults off their nests during the breeding season.

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 209

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JULY 28, 2022

Ba’Aka people are among the most well-known representatives of an ancient hunter-gatherer lifestyle. The landlocked Republic of the Congo (former French Congo; not to be confused with much larger Democratic Republic of the Congo, formerly Belgian Congo) is sometimes informally called Congo-Brazzaville, after its capital city.

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Central African Republic Congo Gabon Gorillas 311

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Just yesterday the FBI was able to complete its evidence gathering and clearing of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge, returning the refuge back to the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (USFWS) and freeing the seventeen refuge employees to go back to work. So far the cost of the Malheur NWR occupation is estimated at over $3.3

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Hunters Utah Extremist Agenda 148

Animal Person

DECEMBER 21, 2009

And of course, shuttling wildlife to and fro, and contemplating their place in our lives and our place in theirs. I followed his call, but so did Emily The Hunter. When I informed Dave of what Emily and I were doing, he reminded me that some frogs are fatally poisonous to cats. So much for the predator instinct.

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NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Larger, denser with avian information than your typical field guide, a Crossley Guide bursts with bird images, photographic plates that verge on the surreal of birds in all plumages and poses against real-life habitats, informing, sometimes overwhelming us with visual and, if you can take your eyes off the images, textual information.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 133