10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

2014 has been a good year for us at 10,000 Birds. Larry starts us off right with an owl that makes birders drool: I was able to see and photograph many great birds in 2014 but my Best Bird of the Year would have to be the Great Gray Owl , the largest Strix in North America. That’s Redgannet’s BBOTY at the top of the post.

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2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 245

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2015

As we speak, in Serbia these birds are still hunted in August and September. Local bird protection NGOs have been demanding a hunting ban on both Quails and Turtle Doves ever since. Allow me to take you back in time, to November 2014. As a result, on June 19 the Ministry announced a two years hunting ban on Turtle Dove.

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Serbia Slaughter Slaughtered Turtles 270

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2019

In birding, perhaps only the proverbial wild goose chase and snipe hunt rank below owling in terms of expected success. A Great Horned Owl illustrated in Game Birds: Life Histories of One Hundred and Seventy Birds of Prey, Game Birds and Water-Fowls by Neltje Blanchan. There’s the whole role of chance in owling, too.

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2017 Owls Game California 204

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2020

These are fairly simple activities, no scavenger hunts or bird identification exercises, and it occurred to me that some are activities I thought up on my own in past years, to work through with my nephews. © 2014, 2019, Brooklyn botanic Garden, Inc. © 2014, 2019, Brooklyn botanic Garden, Inc.

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Los Angeles 2019 Birds 2014 264

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. It is obvious that hunting is NOT conservation. Why is this happening? People don’t respect wildlife.

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Hunting Hunters Gorillas Wolves 169