2014 Animal Hunting Killing 
10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2014
I am not anti-hunting. However, I will pick a fight with the Rip Van Winkle Rod and Gun Club in Palenville, New York, which is sponsoring their fourth annual “Crow Down” March 29-30, 2014. The “Crow Down” is a “hunting contest” where both adults and children slaughter as many crows as they possibly can in two days.
10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2022
But whatever birders think about falconry, someone is sure interested in reading about it – they’re lapping the stuff up, from Helen Macdonald’s big prizewinning kahuna of 2014, H is For Hawk, reviewed here , and further discussed here , to Big Brother: A Falconer’s Journey and the Healing Power of Wildlife , reviewed just a few weeks ago here.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 6, 2015
As we speak, in Serbia these birds are still hunted in August and September. And on their way south, they reach the killing fields of northern Serbia ( Newsweek on poaching in the Balkans ). Local bird protection NGOs have been demanding a hunting ban on both Quails and Turtle Doves ever since. Left: David Lindo, a.k.a.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Stories enhance his 2014 history of modern ornithology, Ten Thousand Birds ( co-written with Jo Wimpenny and Bob Montgomerie). The book is chiefly about how people have conceptualized and studied birds, but there is an underlying theme, the changing ways in which our Western culture has viewed animals, nature and God.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller is one of these books. 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. Yes, it is about extinction, a popular topic in the Year of the Passenger Pigeon.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2022
One study found that birds living in Botswana had elevated levels of lead in their bloodstreams during hunting season, presumably coming from lead bullets used on animals killed by hunters. For example, this study showed that Malachite Kingfishers spent more time hunting in locations with more fish. ” (HBW).
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 14, 2023
For good measure, some animals in the near vicinity were also named after him, such as Raffles’s Malkoha. Market prices have tracked demand: in 1987 birds retailed for $ 14, rising to $ 44 in 2014 and $ 99 in 2016.” The only explanation I have for this unequal treatment is that it must be a witch hunt.
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