10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2012

We pour over photographs, read with envy the eye-witness accounts of the “lucky ones” and fabricate secret plans to abandon our loved ones and embark on expensive trips to track them down. Typically these birds hunt at night and are very shy. We crossed a small bridge in the landrover and that’s when I saw it.

Owls 239

Owls Fish Botswana Barn Owls 239

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2017

They are the Desert Wheatears and Siberian Thrushes that abandon all reason and fly to Britain (maybe they heard about the UK Birdfair ?). In fact, right now, in all likelihood, there probably are a few Aplomados up that way hunting in some far off fields never visited by birders.

Costa Rica 100

Costa Rica San Jose Falcons Nicaragua 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2011

As a youngster of 10-weeks old, it is abandoned by its parents and left to fend for itself. A big moon gives enough light for the gulls to hunt by, so the shearwaters seldom come onto land while the full moon is up. You have got to admire the Manx Shearwater.

United Kingdom 159

United Kingdom Brazil Eggs Abandon 159

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

The first was Lewis Binford, who noted, correctly, that if you look at actual animal bones from actual archaeological sites, you could not objectively see clear evidence that would distinguish hunting from scavenging, and if you compared these “food remains” to hyena food remains, they looked roughly the same.

Humane 165

Humane Lions Buffalo Hunting 165

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2016

This species, one of the heaviest birds able to fly, was once common through most of southern and central Europe and all the way to Mongolia, but was driven to extinction by hunting and changes in agricultural practises in most of its European range during the 19th and early 20th century.

Germany 101

Germany Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 101

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2019

Eurasian Scops Owl is a bird of open forests and scattered trees, parks, orchards, abandoned houses, etc. Black Woodpecker was until recently restricted to deep beech and oak forests and good habitats of that type include Kosutnjak (#11, an old oak forest and a former royal hunting preserve) and Avala Mountain (#10, beech forests).

Serbia 247

Serbia Birds Woodpeckers Breeding 247

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The birds were right next to an old abandoned farm house, and seemed quite happy to have their photo taken, up to a point, but then like the wind, they were gone, out thru the flat desert areas of New Mexico! American Kestrels, Cooper Hawks , and Northern Harriers also found the hunting here to their liking.

Albuquerque 120

Albuquerque New Mexico Mexico Sparrows 120

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. On the WCS web page, Ms. What happened to Thelma and Louise? Or any of the other female Pink Pigeons (there are 8!)?

Mauritius 101

Mauritius Stud Zoos Eggs 101

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2015

Bank Swallows in the Americas) are flying above, Common Kingfishers are hunting (on this bank alone I will record six of them), quite a few Common Redshanks , while the roadside bushes are alive with migrating flocks of Willow Warblers. A few moored boats with piles of fishing nets, but no people. Barn Swallows and Sand Martins (a.k.a.

Greece 226

Greece Dogs Pelicans Fish 226

Animal Ethics

JUNE 27, 2008

To the Editor: “ Getting Bacon the Hard Way: Hog-Tying 400 Pounds of Fury ” (front page, June 21), about Texas hog hunters, illustrated the barbarity of hunting with dogs. Many hunters compound their cruelty by abandoning their dogs when they are no longer of use. Hunting with hounds is neither sport nor conservation.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Boars Hunters 40

Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture." Minus that role, the term implies, such an animal has no place; if they aren't some human's companion, or their companionship fails to please, they can be abandoned or killed" (8).

Animal 100

Animal Vivisection Suffering Emotional 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

Never ones to let facts stand in the way of a good, old-fashioned, witch-hunt, the hordes of cat crazies heeded the call of their overlords and not only sent emails but essentially took over the National Audubon Society’s Facebook page.

Feral Cats 271

Feral Cats Trap Neuter Return Tnr Extremist 271

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2014

The next day we tried mist netting the cave entrance, and the day after I abandoned the project entirely. A Bat Hawk hunting bats. I managed half an hour, and spent the whole time convinced that I was going to die. I think we caught perhaps three bats. Be sure to drop by in the evening to get your spectacle though!

Bats 154

Bats Birds Vanuatu Namibia 154

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

… The ordinance would allow Minneapolis residents to establish cat “colonies” where abandoned and wild cats can be fed but also vaccinated, neutered and identified in an effort to humanely cut their population and control disease.

Feral Cats 201

Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 201

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

When that isn’t possible, many raptor rehabbers keep tabs on nests and will place an abandon chick in a foster nest. A female red-tail may leave a nest to hunt for her two chicks and return to feed a rabbit to three chicks without noting an increase in the number of chicks a rehabber has placed there.

Birds 264

Birds Fox Raised Ducks 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Patrol and enforce wildlife-damaging violations, including the taking of endangered native plants, capturing turtles, riding ATV’s on pedestrian trails, and abandoning fishhooks. It’s a very mixed chapter. Remove Phragmites and replace it with cattails. Mow grasslands only once a year to arrest succession.

New York City 145

New York City New York Birds Breeding 145