10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

One of the black-crowns and the Green Heron were clearly in hunting mode, leaning over the water, staring intently. Here’s a Green Heron just a few yards up the creek from back in July, hunting with the same strategy. a hungry Green Heron. But why had these herons chosen this particular spot to go fishing?

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Fish New York City New York Hunting 107

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2012

But the honeyguides, indigobirds, and a single species of duck all do the classic cuckoo strategy (obligate interspecific brood parasitism) as well. This behavior is most common in colony nesters, since popping next door to drop off an egg is a lot easier than hunting down another nest through acres of forest or grassland. But come on.

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Eggs Neglecting Adoptable Hunting 155

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

MAY 19, 2012

If the threats to the species in the wild (hunting and habitat loss) are significantly reduced, a captive-bred population could be re-introduced, if agreed as part of an overall recovery strategy.

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Vietnam 2000 Germany Asia 153

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2012

Watching them hunt is fascinating. Another strategy regularly employed by these weird raptors is that they will soar great distances, utilizing thermals in search of bush-fires. We stayed with the larger bird as it settled down to the serious business of hunting. But another reason might be that the wing flares confuse the prey.

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Botswana Eagles Porcupines Hunting 213

Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

link] The strategies used by professional reptile keepers are only successful because they take into account the behavioral flexibility of the reptiles. Reptiles that are not treated ethically simply do not make good pets.

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Pythons illegal Florida Killing 40

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

Thankfully, as the authors note, this focus on animals to hunt has given way to visitors’ fascination with a range of creatures.). (The Big Five–Lion, Leopard, African Buffalo, African Elephant and Rhinoceros–were historically the main mammal attraction of Kruger.

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Rhinos Mammals Animal White Rhinos 232

10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2012

Typically these birds hunt at night and are very shy. One of only three true fishing owls, Pel’s Fishing Owls have adapted to their unique hunting techniques in several ways. We crossed a small bridge in the landrover and that’s when I saw it. In full sunlight, at eye-level and eating a freshly caught fish.

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Owls Fish Botswana Barn Owls 239

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

Flickers have other strategies. But the all-time favorite flicker strategy is to scream like a slasher movie victim and fly straight at the person’s head. But the all-time favorite flicker strategy is to scream like a slasher movie victim and fly straight at the person’s head.

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Woodpeckers Wildlife Rehabilitation Wildlife Seattle 216

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. Here is a video of some Wels Catfish foraging on Pigeons.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2015

Soon after carnivores that could hunt on land evolved, things like ancestral centipedes. For a long time the plants were mostly left untouched but their dead leaves and protoleaves were consumed by things like ancestral millipedes.

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Rodents Primates Bats Science 183

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Hunting: You may have noticed that the Written Species Accounts include a section on hunting. I am a city girl and until I became a birder my contact with hunting was limited to occasionally seeing dead deer on the tops of cars in upstate New York. So–not a fan of hunting. I was really taken aback when I saw this.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 114

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Common Cuckoo is a fascinating bird, an obligate parasitic breeder that employs numerous strategies, including fraud and murder, to survive. , deep-pandemic birds (all local), and still-pandemic birds (a little travel), it is the Rhode Island Common Cuckoo that will define this year for me. I saw the Cuckoo the second day of its visit.

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2020 Birds Germany Costa Rica 220

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Lead remains in both fishing and hunting products, with strong lobbies that insist lead poisoning is not real, even as our facilities fill regularly with birds afflicted with it. Respect, understanding, and a greater awareness of wildlife are key for the public and agencies alike.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Rescue Wildlife 189

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

Great Frigatebirds engage in “unihemispheric sleep” on hunting trips of six to ten days, never landing, sleeping less than an hour in a 24-hour cycle, often keeping one-half of their brain awake while the other slept. Pause while we all try to imagine what our lives would be like if we could do that.)

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 243

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2014

On the shore were the dominant big birds you see in Australia, a very vocal Australian Raven , some Australian Magpies , a hunting Grey Butcherbird , pairs of Maned Ducks cropping the grass and a pair of Laughing Kookaburras watchfully surveying the cafe patrons. Dusky Moorhen The Maned Duck – or Australian Wood Duck. A Rose Robin.

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Australia Ducks Parrots New Zealand 171

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2013

Although if you want to see a bunch of Turkey Vultures it’s a pretty good strategy. Lest you think that modern technology robbed all the challenge from my hunt, though, I would point out that there were a couple of confounding factors. And who doesn’t want to see a bunch of Turkey Vultures?)

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Sparrows St. Louis Kansas City Kansas 163

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

I’m fairly certain that it was the deliberate strategy of the bird to kill the duck on the water and wait for it to come ashore. This bird was “tamer” than most of her species because she had become accustomed to hunting the narrow causeway for ducks and was relatively acclimated to all the vehicular traffic.

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Falcons Ducks Utah Ethics 116

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

They’re unusual to be sure, but there’s a certain grace in the back and forth monotony of the spoonbill’s feeding strategy and there’s little like seeing a line of spoonbills tearing across a shallow mudflat seeking food you can’t possibly see. Roseate Spoonbill , photo by Julie Gidwitz.

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Birds North America Charlotte New Jersey 203

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Now that the colony is off limits for hunting, the population has grown and the village is benefitting tremendously from entry and guide fees, and a school is being built courtesy of conservation funds. Another of Ghana’s forest gems, the seldom encountered Fraser’s Eagle Owl. .

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 187

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

The chapter on Turning the Tide is happier, if much briefer, focusing on the Commission’s strategy of recognizing wetlands as a natural resource, working with the Department of Environmental Protection to de-pollute the Hackensack River, and restoring many of the wetland areas. This really happened, we created a landscape of toxic horror.

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