10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2014
Before you judge rabid deal hunters and conspicuous consumers too harshly, imagine how long you might wait on line for special deals on rare bird sightings? Did you survive the double-barreled assault of Black Friday and Cyber Monday? How early in the morning would you wake up for a guaranteed fallout of migrants?
10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2013
In 1976, Congress changed the official name to the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp , presumably to broaden its appeal to non-hunters. All you need to do to realize this unfortunate reality is to check out their official “Duck Stamp” page announcing the new 2013 – 2014 season.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2014
I won’t pick a fight with hunters, as long as they eat what they shoot and don’t use lead ammunition. 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. I am not anti-hunting. Plain old fashioned Fun.”. This is baloney.
10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2014
They don’t take into account the valid concerns non-hunters have about buying the stamp, which fall into two main areas: 1. Many wildlife watchers, birders and photographers don’t want to support a stamp that is so intimately and historically associated with hunting. On March 5, 2014, the U.S. Case in point.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 19, 2016
For example, years ago, Eiton Tchenrov postulated that the wild progenitor of the domestic dog, some subspecies or another of wolf, could benefit from overlapping its breeding territory with human hunters. The humans tended to keep away a range of predators that might take the pups as a form of interference competition.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2022
It reminds me a lot of Rare Birds of North America , the 2014 book by Steve N. He is also, according to his Bloomsbury Publishers’ bio, “an obsessive birder and vagrant-hunter (when time allows!). Don’t worry. There’s a lot in this book to digest and savor, even if you’re not a twitcher.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
Fuller’s astonishment at locating this “grail of extinct-bird photograph hunters” is contagious. Princeton University Press, 2014 (also published by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2013). Almost as an afterthought, Prys-Jones mentions that he has a photograph and finds it after rummaging through his desk. 95 halftones.
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