10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2014
I am not anti-hunting. The “Crow Down” is a “hunting contest” where both adults and children slaughter as many crows as they possibly can in two days. A hero of the Rip Van Winkle Rod & Gun Club is – no doubt – Bob Aronsohn, who lives in Kansas and in December 2013 celebrated killing his 150,000th crow.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 8, 2014
Amazon had a brilliant press release on Cyber Monday 2013 about using drones as a possible delivery service for their products in the near future. Say a duck hunter knows that the closed pools nearby has ducks and it’s dead in the pool where they are hunting.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
But in Iraq, and more exactly, Kurdistan and Iraqi Kurdistan, they are supposed to be there (and are regularly hunted and eaten) and the fighting is not supposed to be there. That means crows join humans, apes and monkeys in exhibiting advanced relational thinking, according to the research. BBC has the story as a video.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2013
On 14 March, 2013, the Orlando Sentinel published an opinion piece by Ted Williams under the headline “Trap, neuter, return programs make feral-cat problem worse.” Then he gave a couple of alternative solutions to the feral cat problem: There are two effective, humane alternatives to the cat hell of TNR.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2014
It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. We politically worship them, but at the same time we’ve severely decreased the numbers of many species by hunting and habitat loss.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
There is the flightless Atitlán Giant Grebe of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, whose habitat was destroyed by a combination of human incursion and earthquake, but whose DNA lives on in hybrids that fly. Princeton University Press, 2014 (also published by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2013). The photographs were never published. 95 halftones.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2015
Maharashtra, February 2013. The Osprey tries another hunt, finally a successful one, while Telia goes deeper into the water and lies down. But, in the next year, 2009, only one human was killed by a tiger, leading to a conclusion that all the tigers in the conflict area (practically, the wider reserve buffer zone) have been wiped out.
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