10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

A shot or two coming from the opposite bank, but they do not sound like geese shooting – more like boar hunting. A goose hunt sounds like a WWII battle. The only mammals of the day were feral Nutrias (Coypus), aquatic rodents originally from southern South America released from the bankrupt fur-farms and well established here.

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APRIL 13, 2012

Birds are a long way down a cat’s food chain so well-fed cats tend not to hunt at all, he says. Birds are, with reptiles amphibians, and mammals, the prey that feral cats kill. And cats, regardless of the amount of food provided for them, hunt instinctually. Feral cats kill huge numbers of birds.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Africa is famous for its large, charismatic mammals, and the Big Five epitomize the most sought-after of these fantastic beasts. Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. This blog post will discuss both the Big and Little members of these quintuplets.

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NOVEMBER 22, 2014

Ribbon Snakes are small slender creatures with excellent vision for diurnal hunting. They are commonly associated with water and can often be found in or close to ponds where their light weight barely disturbs the water lilies as they move across them.

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DECEMBER 6, 2017

They have adapted a form of communal living, to the point of cooperative hunting techniques. This way of hunting has proven to be very successful, as sometimes there are as many as 7 birds all working together. There are three subspecies of Harris Hawks: The P.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The Aruban Burrowing Owl hunts primarily from the ground, hopping and running after lizards, insects, and small mammals. They hunt both during the day and into the night, making spotting one more likely. Unfortunately, due to development and other pressure on their populations, their numbers in Aruba have been falling.

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

When I reached the levee earlier that morning, I met an elderly hunter from whom I learned that there was an ongoing duck and pheasant hunt, but no one was shooting from, nor towards the embankment, hence I should be safe there. Photographed within Beljarica: six wild boars by Snezana Panjkovic.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Lost Animals is a book about what was lost and witnesses to the loss—how the bird or mammal was viewed, often for the last time, through the lens of a camera. And so, Fuller embarked on a new initiative—locating and researching photographs of lost birds and, expanding his scope, of mammals. more than there really was to see!” (p.

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Critter News

MARCH 27, 2012

The market for Canadian seal pelts has gone dry but the federal government will still allow sealers to kill 400,000 of the marine mammals when the annual hunt opens next Monday. For the full article, go to The Globe and Mail here.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2020

Drifting slower and looking closer, we observed a tiny Malachite Kingfisher hunting in the sheltered shallows. Ubiquitous Egyptian Geese dabbled in the shallows while a diminutive Squacco Heron stood motionless in some tangled vegetation over the water. Squacco Heron. This tiny kingfisher thoroughly excited everyone on board.

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JANUARY 2, 2024

He is also a sculptor and a naturalist and has combined his observations with his art in past titles, notably House of Owls (2015), In the Company of Crows and Raven s (2005), and Marine Birds and Mammals of Puget Sound (1982).

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NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Of course, we did, soaking in that slate blue beauty long enough to observe a successful hunt and more of its rangy, awkward flight. Our primeval quarry flashed that cold, knowing smile and flew off, daring us to track it down for better looks. The mighty Shoebill.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2016

The gamekeeper drives by, I wave my greetings but do not mention the jackals I am observing at the moment: this animal is not protected in Serbia and is allowed for killing year-round (one may say “hunting” instead, but I am having problems trying to spot the difference). All this happens less than a mile from the nearest houses.

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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. Given the scavenger feeding habits of the Turkey Vultures , the small mammals and birds that are on the menu for the Zone-tailed hawks are lulled into complacency by the lack of threat from the vultures.

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

" However, various lines of scientific & behavioral research show that reptiles not only feel pain & experience stress the same way mammals & birds do, but that they are also likely capable of a range of emotions including anxiety, distress, excitement, fear, frustration, pain, stress, and suffering.

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MAY 31, 2015

The Common Buzzards , for example, who usually hunt by circling high above the landscape, will hover in kestrel fashion much more frequently. The kestrels , on the other hand, will more frequently hunt from low perches. Sometimes, red foxes can even be observed hunting during the day when rodents and fox babies are plentiful.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

Now and then individual catfish of various species hunt nearer the surface and larger catfish such as the American Channel Cat will take a duck or other water bird. So, the modal catfish is a fish that hunts from below, can take large prey, and occasionally eats a bird. As noted, the fish-like mammals do this as well.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2013

Mammals Ethiopia Gelada' they are the most terrestrial primate after humans. However the major factor is due to the rapid human population expansion in Ethiopia that has meant that cultivation (even in national parks!) A male Gelada mock attacks a female. Photo by Adam Riley.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

There were Northern Harriers hunting low over what portions are as of yet unmowed, Cooper’s Hawks using some of the berms as cover for sneak attacks, and American Kestrel feasting on cold grasshoppers. They do the entire landfill every-other-year instead of doing half each year. I don’t know.).

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Pale-mandibled Aracari by Luke Seitz Taste, touch and smell in birds are generally considered to be weaker than these same senses in mammals. Most appear to have a very limited sense of smell and mammals appear to have better developed olfactory glands. Sword-billed Hummingbird , Colombia Bills come in all shapes and sizes.

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Critter News

APRIL 8, 2010

The psychological impact of over-hunting on the highly intelligent and sociable animals has been identified as the latest threat to the survival of the species. But now a French scientist has said the majestic mammals - which can reach 80ft in length and weigh the same as a passenger jet - could also suffer from heartbreak.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

BLUE whales, the world’s largest animals, are reappearing in parts of the oceans where hunting once wiped them out, signalling that they may finally be returning from the brink of extinction. And here's some good news for today.

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Critter News

APRIL 21, 2009

And this is despite the bad press received by the annual seal hunts. Many diners are huge fans of its taste, describing the mammal's meat as somewhere between duck and veal. Definitely a niche market ,but demand has been increasing.

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Critter News

JANUARY 2, 2009

The amendments to the Marine Mammal Regulations, which include strengthened federal enforcement, come just over a month after newly appointed federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea said Canada is "going straight ahead for the 2009 hunt. Trying to put a humane face on a barbaric practice. We're proceeding as usual." "No

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2011

It is found from northern California to British Columbia though it formerly ranged must further east before it was hunted out of its eastern haunts. If you liked this post and want to see more great images of mammals and other creatures make sure to check out 10,000 Clicks , our big (and growing) page of galleries here at 10,000 Birds.

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MARCH 3, 2022

This is partly due to hunting in China, where about 90% of the species winter (HBW). Tianmashan bonus mammal: a Raccoon Dog – though it looks a lot like a raccoon, it is actually more closely related to foxes than to raccoons. And it does not even live in reeds. The White’s Thrush will keep pretending to be a reptile.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

Further down the road, we reach a derelict building with a large veranda hidden among the trees – an abandoned hunting lodge (if I were in a situation to invest, I would choose to upgrade this into a luxury wildlife lodge). One White-eyed Buzzard has turned its back to us. It is too early to show.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

Unfortunately, developers are hungrily eying the 70-acre parcel despite some local opposition and the fact that it is a wetland that provides excellent habitat to a variety of birds (to say nothing of mammals, insects, etc).

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New York City New York Birds Homelessness 152

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either. Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural. The Eurasian Blackbird was not found in new Zealand before man, but it is now.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2011

There was also a mammal jawbone in the pellet too. I wasn’t as interested in the mammal jawbone, but it totally piqued his interest. Great horneds are known as the “Tiger of the Woods&# because they’ll hunt anything and they are good at it, but they are slow and stealthy. Was that a cardinal beak?

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Bats Dissection Owls Minnesota 196

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2017

Actually, I am not waiting for them, but for the Eastern Imperial Eagle to come here to hunt Susliks – an eagle from one of the last two remaining nests in Serbia. On some earlier occasion I observed an Imperial Eagle hunting. After a wakeup call at highly uncivilized 3.45 It is still cold. Alas, there is no eagle to be seen either.

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Eagles Squirrels Cattle Serbia 103

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2015

But you haven’t come here to read my writing about mammals or reptiles, so, yeah, there are also lots of birds. The floodplain of the Chobe is the only place in Botswana where the aquatic Puku is found, you may need the help of the guide to tell it from the other, more common water antelope, the Red Lechwe. Red Lechwe.

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DECEMBER 15, 2015

In particular, birds that hang around with humans who don’t happen to hunt or eat them can become very tame. Part of that research was to document human avoidance by ground mammals, and that was stark and apparent. Presumably the humans keep away the predators. We simply were not perceived, I think, as a danger.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

Or a mammal. Working with the local jaguar conservancy, he learned that there are 10 or 11 different animals hunting peccaries and other prey at Selva Bananito. Being an absolute beginner in the New World, I wasn’t focused on about 95 or so regional endemics – but on every bird I see. Or even those pooie reptiles.

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Costa Rica Reptiles Farming Mississippi 129

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

The Osprey tries another hunt, finally a successful one, while Telia goes deeper into the water and lies down. Conservation endangered species India Mammals tiger' The tigress rises again and slowly enters the lake, barely 2-3 metres from a croc who is keeping an eye on her. Cover photo: Telia, copyright © Nitin Bhardwaj.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

That bald head, so odd and homely, is actually an adaptation for sticking one’s head deep inside the gut of a deceased mammal. They primarily prey on the large mammals of the African plains, grasslands stretching from horizon to horizon. Vulture Hunts Down and Ravages Sea Turtles – Dale Forbes, 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Here in New Zealand te only potential big tick would be a lost vagrant painted snipe, and we’ve already established that I don’t enjoy that kind of vagrant hunting. The year before I only got one, the shrike-tits (Falcunculidae), although if you include mammals also I finally got my lifer wombat (Vombatidae) too.

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