10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2015
Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. The Service is committed to strengthening and expanding hunting and fishing opportunities,” said Ashe. “By
10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2018
The definition of the word HUNT is “to chase or search for game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing.” ” Obviously the dictionary does not equate hunting with conservation. If you have some insane idea that Hunting Is Conservation: I think we all remember the fate of the Passenger Pigeon ?
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 11, 2015
I hear them constantly calling with that steadily repeated squealing keeyuur, keeyuur, keeyuur , and I see them more often in early summer hunting for food for their nestlings. That being said, I found this juvenile recently at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge. It was perched right next to the road on the auto tour route.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 26, 2011
An online lecture by Dauphine is entitled “apocalypse meow – free ranging cats and the destruction of American wildlife.” There is apparently no physical evidence involved, just a video that is not entirely clear. Here’s hoping that Dauphine has her name cleared.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 13, 2013
Peregrine Falcon at Delevan National Wildlife Refuge. BBC Nature has a really cool video of the Peregrine hunting a pigeon in a stoop. Although Peregrines are famous for hunting birds from above by stooping down on them, they use several other means of attaining prey and are most active at dawn and dusk.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
Local farmers view it as a threat to domesticated wildlife. It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2012
There are few sights more wrenching to a wildlife rehabilitator than a convulsing, lead-poisoned bird. In what some might see as an unlikely alliance, wildlife rehabilitators, veterinarians, and – yes – hunters have banded together to convince those who hunt to use copper bullets instead of lead.
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