10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
And though the satellite transmitter let Machi be tracked it did not protect it from the hunters’ guns. This practice is a throwback to more than a century ago when gunners hunted shorebirds throughout the Americas. Conservation organizations continue to work toward some compromise that will reduce pressures on declining species.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2019
The blackpoll, “a bird with a body just a little larger than your thumb,” doesn’t stop until South America. Kaufman knows that duck hunters can be ardent, loving conservationists, too. As Kaufman says: “Four nights and three days in the air. Eighty hours of flying. More than two thousand miles. by Kenn Kaufman.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 16, 2011
I’m extremely grateful to Paul for taking the initiative in raising awareness of this NWR campaign. I’ve long advocated for a habitat stamp strickly for birders as some of us don’t want to be labeled as hunters. You may even have some profound insights that need to be shared in this public forum.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
The 6 th edition of the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America , for example, includes “extinct” and “probably extinct” species in a chapter, mixed in with accidentals.) Fuller’s astonishment at locating this “grail of extinct-bird photograph hunters” is contagious. And remembered.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
That’s Pitta, people, not Antpitta, which is what I foolishly first envisioned, having never birded beyond the Americas.) Each chapter of The Jewel Hunter reads like a mini-travel novel. If you want to travel the world birding and drinking beer, The Jewel Hunter is a must-buy. The Jewel Hunter can be frustrating in this respect.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
If you wrote to Tennessee in the 10,000 Birds campaign this winter, you can cut and paste your letter, changing “Tennessee&# to “Kentucky.&# The sandhill crane has the lowest recruitment rate (average number of young birds joining a population each season) of any bird now hunted in North America. to a high of 11%.
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