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. In a news report from 2009, the DNA quoted a senior Forest Department official who feared that the poachers must have killed around 20 tigers in the region in just five months. Source: Wikimedia Commons.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2019
Eastern red bats, for only one example, may actually be attracted to wind turbines; and unlike birds, they are often killed by “barotrauma” – their inner organs explode from the drop in air pressure as the blade sweeps past.). Kaufman is attuned to these sorts of ironies, ones that sometimes arise from supposedly competing interests.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 17, 2019
Several poachers were waiting in ever thickening darkness (Serbian legislation forbids night hunting). There are 5 published records since mid-20th century, the last one of six birds in 2006. we will kill it!”, Startled by our headlights, a goose was sitting in the tire trail. The startled bird was looking at us.
Animal Person
MARCH 9, 2010
A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture." An animal's own terms are 'Don't hunt me'" (49). "At
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
I’m not sure why all the birds scattered at its approach, Frigatebirds are known for stealing the catch of other birds, not for killing elegant, cinnamon-chested Avocets, but scatter they did and only a couple of hundred came back down. Behrstock, and Seth Davidson, with maps by Cindy Lippincott, Texas A&M University Press, 2008.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2021
There is a mushroom hunting expedition in Anna Karenina, Tolstoy’s use of a popular Russian pastime. I imagine part of the allure of studying mushrooms is the tension between identifying the ones that will kill you (or at the very least give you a tummy ache) and the ones that will make your pizza or salad zing.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public comment on a proposal to hunt sandhill cranes in Kentucky. Kentucky Dept.
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