10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Incidents like this one, led by far-right militant, anti-government extremists, should be a concern of all Americans, especially birders, hunters, environmentalists, conservationists, and anyone else concerned with keeping public lands public. This concern of losing our public lands is actually something birders and hunters have in common.

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Hunters Utah Extremist Agenda 136

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2019

All winter long, large mixed flocks of crows stream over my home on their way from their downtown roosts out to feed in the farm fields outside of the city. Grant, Mark Twain, and Hunter S. It’s all very inevitable, really. They begin their outbound journey just before sunrise on most day, and New Year’s Day is no exception.

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Mississippi Kentucky New York Tennessee 117

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

The topic was the concept of humans as predators, or hunters, or really, eaters of meat, and I was discussing the many ways in which people misconceived this notion. Also, Ed Yong has written this up for Nature: Vultures blind to the dangers of wind farms: Collisions with turbines a result of visual adaptation for foraging.

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Humane Lions Buffalo Hunting 165

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

The farm boy hears thy tender voice, And visions come of crystal days, With sugar-camps in maple ways, And scenes that make his heart rejoice. He is happy the bluebird has returned and he hopes that it will nest by his house in “Downy’s cell,&# that is, the abandoned hole of a Downy Woodpecker.

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2011 Deer New York Peru 166

Animal Person

DECEMBER 21, 2009

South Florida is home to the most racetracks and Greyhound farms and trainers in the country, and you can’t turn on the radio or the television without encountering a commercial for the tracks. I followed his call, but so did Emily The Hunter. There is a God, I thought. Clearly, he had complete disregard for his life.

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Greyhounds Dogs Ducks Litter 100