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. All eight hunters on the commission think it’s a good idea to shoot cranes in Kentucky. Why put additional pressure on a recovering species? Why allow hunters to shoot right into the middle of them?

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Kentucky Hunters Hunting Protest 260

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Hunting sandhill cranes in Kentucky is a bad idea from a public relations standpoint, considering the growing cadre of birders and nature enthusiasts for whom cranes are a touchstone species. Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 252

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2019

The tropical habitats of Costa Rica are home to a surprising number of raptor species. Although the country is around the same size as West Virginia, 39 species of diurnal raptors are on the list. As is often the case for tropical ecosystems, there may be hundreds of species of birds at a site, but many of them are naturally rare.

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Costa Rica Eagles West Virginia Opossums 188

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2022

Until now, it has only been open for hunters. The ABA has sporadically commented on proposed regulations, but it should develop a more formal process to comment on issues such as the Migratory Bird Treaty Act , the Endangered Species Act , the Duck Stamp , and others. Members will likely also have suggestions for advocacy.

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Advocacy Wildlife Portland Science 221

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

Not a cover species The Black Kite is not actually black, but of course, misleading bird names are not exactly rare. It is mostly a question of economics – raising just one is troublesome enough given the resources required to feed and educate the chick. No surprise then that the species is listed as Vulnerable.

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Birds Iraq China Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2011

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. Hunters frequently refer to them as “Rib-eye in the Sky” due to the excellent taste. ” Rather, he said it was entirely about giving hunters the chance to hunt cranes.

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Kentucky Hunting Tennessee Indiana 258

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Hunters go to Africa to shoot lions, and this is without question a good thing; for birds, for ecosystems, and for lions in general! If you don’t accept that we sometimes have to do harm to individuals to do good for the species, well, nothing I’m going to say is going to convince you. I’m not even trolling (much).

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Lions Killing Hunting Hunters 186

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

According to Politico “Continental Resources CEO Harold Hamm has long been seen as a leading candidate for energy secretary. Geological Survey, a massive scientific research agency which studies America’s natural resources and anything that threatens them, like climate change. The fight to protect ANWR has been an uphill fight.

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Wildlife 2016 Oklahoma South Carolina 145

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 122

Critter News

AUGUST 21, 2008

That's what Michigan's State Department of Natural Resources says. Michigan's removal of the bald eagle and gray wolf from the list will be the most significant change in species protection the state has seen in years. The delisting would not open the door for hunters to kill wolves, the state's DNR notes.

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Michigan Wolves Eagles Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The Refuge is now home to nearly 200 species of birds, over 50 species of mammals, 25 species of reptiles and amphibians, and a wide variety of insects, fish and plants. Note in this 2010 video, birders, birdwatching and kayakers are mentioned, not hunters. www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk_5pt9OTLA. v=sk_5pt9OTLA.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 144

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2012

The very first multi-media resource for leaning birds were birds. Among the gentry there seems not to have been much of a line between being a bird watcher and a bird hunter, and the home naturalist could certainly develop a nice private collection. you’d get to see the much larger samples of prepared specimens in the drawers.

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Birds Collecting Rodents Wounded 170

10,000 Birds

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? It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2011

But, as with so many other species, these birds have been left to do their own whistle blowing. The whistling duck call carries with it the crimes of big business, the failures of governments and the ignorance of irresponsible hunters. West Indian Whistling Ducks are the largest of the eight different whistling duck species.

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Antigua and Barbuda Puerto Rico Dominican Republic Jamaica 229

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2013

Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. Because I am relatively new to birding, this resource proved to be invaluable. Thus, the following totals are limited to those species I was able to photograph and ID using the field guides.

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Iceland Puffins Europe Birds 194

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. I’ve long advocated for a habitat stamp strickly for birders as some of us don’t want to be labeled as hunters.

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

Animals killed also include threatened and endangered species, a number which has steadily increased since 2005. Lethal control efforts of WS professionals typically remove less than 5 percent of a species' overall population. This amount is considerably less than the number of animals taken by hunters and trappers annually.

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Killing Wildlife Groups Endangered Species 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The conservation need is urgent: great attention has rightly been paid to Brazil’s Amazonian rainforest but not enough resources have gone to the Pantanal and the Cerrado, of which only 4% and 5%, respectively, are protected. Talk about a win-win!

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Birds 208

Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

But if you're on the outside, and you're hostile to the idea of respecting the natural lives of sentient nonhumans and you see them only as resources to be managed, might you have a similar idea? than with any genuine concern for species diversity or even animal welfare." Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is.

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Animal Rights Rights Broiler Chicken Animal 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Even if you don’t live in the summer range of a particular species, you may have opportunities to observe it while it passes through, especailly if you live in an active flyway, like I happen to. Because the ancestor of this species of bird migrated, and the migratory adaptation and all that entails were passed on.

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Research Humane Compassion New York 197