10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

The only mammals of the day were feral Nutrias (Coypus), aquatic rodents originally from southern South America released from the bankrupt fur-farms and well established here. “Watch for the dark beaks.” Yeah, right. In this light, all beaks are dark! We counted more than 35 of them, relaxed and fearless, clearly not hunted.

Geese 173

Geese Hunting Boars Birds 173

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

As Marra and Santella note, tens of millions of people have “a deep bond and connection with cats” precisely because they’re a little bit wild, among a multitude of other reasons including soft fur, cuddliness, and playfulness. It’s not just the effect of cats on wildlife that should be alarming, “Cat Wars” says.

Feral Cats 256

Feral Cats Cats Trap Neuter Return Feral 256

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2012

John Bachmann headed west to gather material for Viviparous Quadrupeds of North America. Somewhere around the Platte River one of the Audubon boys received a black-footed hide from a fur trader. Audubon painted this new creature and wrote up a brief description, which went into his posthumous book and so out into the world.

Ferrets 183

Ferrets South Dakota Wyoming Captive Animal 183

4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

According to the Asthma and Allergy Foundation of America , more than 15 % of the U.S. In fact, it has nothing to do with a dog’s fur. I assumed that over the years I lost my resistance to dog since I had been away from them for so long. I was terribly sad—I wanted a furry companion terribly.

Suffering 100

Suffering Dogs Adoptable Fur 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 2, 2019

From the earliest days of European colonization in the Americas, attempts to make wine with native grapes proved unsuccessful; compared to the imported Vitis vinifera used for thousands of years of Old World winemaking, native grapes were fairly tart but lacking in sugars.

Philadelphia 130

Philadelphia Ohio Fox Blackbirds 130

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2012

Introduced from North America, it is bigger and more adaptable than the native Red Squirrel Sciurus vulgaris and has displaced the latter from much of its former range. Eastern Grey Squirrel Perhaps the white pelt had already attracted the attention of another predator.

Squirrels 222

Squirrels North Carolina Missouri North America 222

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

Brush-tailed Possums were brought from Australia to help start a fur industry. California Quail are familiar birds to West Coast birders of North America, and Kiwis too now. Gamebirds, such as turkeys, pheasants, partridges, quail, Mallards and the like were also brought, as were popular sport fish.

New Zealand 161

New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 161

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 6, 2008

Anyone who challenged w's environmental policies as too liberal is a true hater of anything she can't eat or kill for fur. She is the worst America has to offer and she scares the hell out of me. I also believe that there will be absolutely no thought behind any of her behavior. Sorry, but it's how I feel.

Inhumane 100

Inhumane Wolves Alaska Fur 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

The two main chapters cover Marine Mammals (Orca; Whales; Dolphins and Porpoises; Sea Lions, Fur Seals, and Elephant Seal; Rarer Marine Mammals) and Seabirds (Albatrosses, Shearwaters and Fulmar, Strom-Petrels, Phalaropes, Alcids, Red-billed Tropicbird, Brown Booby, South Polar Skua, Jaegers, Gulls and Terns, Rarer Seabirds).

Dolphins 162

Dolphins Whales Whaling Porpoises 162

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 28, 2015

Although it was formerly abundant and geographically widespread, Trumpeter Swan numbers and distribution were greatly reduced during the early fur trade and European settlement of North America (1600’s to 1800’s), when it was prized for its skins and primary feathers 1. www.youtube.com/watch?v=kq1bx7Ic2FY. v=kq1bx7Ic2FY.

North America 176

North America Wisconsin Iowa America 176

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Howell’s Petrels, Albatrosses, and Storm-Petrels of North America: A Photographic Guide, previously reviewed here. Over 3 million pairs of Antarctic Fur Seals breed on South Georgia, saved from near extinction by fur hunters. Southern Elephant Seals and Weddell Seals are also resident, though not in such large numbers.

Georgia 173

Georgia Penguins Whales Whaling 173

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

In the mid 1700s, fur-traders began introducing foxes up and down the Aleutian chain, in order to generate some more raw material work with. Most birders are familiar with this story; back in the day, the pesticide DDT was in widespread use all over North America. Santa Cruz Island, CA. Somebody won a Nobel Prize.

Albatross 202

Albatross Endangered Species Bald Eagle Geese 202

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

Each fly has a name and a ‘recipe’ to follow for its creation, a complicated procedure utilizing a hook, sometimes fur, sometimes wool, but always brightly colored feathers from rare birds. That’s pretty much the reaction of anybody hearing this for the first time. Kelson, published in 1895.

Collecting 103

Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 103

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2012

The National Audubon Society tells the story best: Prior to the turn of the century, people engaged in a holiday tradition known as the Christmas “Side Hunt”: They would choose sides and go afield with their guns; whoever brought in the biggest pile of feathered (and furred) quarry won.

North America 120

North America Birds America Fur 120

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

In 1850, the Passenger Pigeon ( Ectopistes migratorius ) was the most abundant bird in North America and possibly the world. The Amur Leopard ( Panthera pardus orientalis – above) is just one majestic animal on the Critically Endangered (CR) list with less than 100 individuals in the wild due to hunting for its fur.

Hunting 110

Hunting Hunters Gorillas Wolves 110