10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2019

There’s little doubt that these unwilling but plucky exiles have beaten the odds over the last few months, first evading the sights of eager autumn hunters, and then the jaws of hungry foxes and weasels, only to endure the many privations of the harsh and long North American winter eking out their survival in a strange and inhospitable landscape.

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North America Vermont America Farming 113

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2011

Hunters frequently refer to them as “Rib-eye in the Sky” due to the excellent taste. ” More than 10,000 people hunt cranes in North America each year. Rather, he said it was entirely about giving hunters the chance to hunt cranes. photo by Vickie Henderson What about just leaving them alone?

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Kentucky Hunting Tennessee Indiana 257

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2011

Bald Eagles will provide a sporting challenge for hunters. Hunters don’t even need to use decoys. However they are wary and have famously sharp eyes, so bagging eagles will be a true sporting challenge for hunters. We need to give hunters new opportunities and new species to hunt. Bald Eagles are delicious.

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Bald Eagle Eagles Hunting Kentucky 251

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2014

The National Wildlife Refuge system is one of America’s greatest treasures. 2. Duck Stamp sales to non-hunters are not accurately calculated to reflect their contributions – which tends to short change the conservation goals of non-consumptive users. It preserves habitat, protects wildlife.

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Ducks Wildlife Hunting Fish 214

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The Green-winged Teal ( Anas crecca carolinensis ) is North America’s smallest dabbling duck and taken by hunters second only to the Mallard. Click on photos for full sized images. Luckily for them, even though they nest on the ground, they usually breed far from human habitation, under heavy vegetative cover.

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Ducks North America Hunters California 172

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2021

The survey was commissioned by National Flyway Council (NFC), which implements the North American Waterfowl Management Plan (NAWMP), which, in turn, aims to maintain abundant waterfowl populations in North America.

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Minnesota Research Pennsylvania Ohio 264

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

” The Cinnamon Teal ( Anas cyanoptera ) is one of the least abundant dabbling ducks in North America. As I quoted in my previous post on promoting a Federal Wildlife Conservation Stamp , by 2011 the number of hunters had grown to 13.7 References: 1 Birds of North America Online , 2 U.S. million, according to the U.S.

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Sacramento Wildlife United States North America 166

Critter News

AUGUST 8, 2009

Now that the species is listed in the US as "threatened," hunters can't import the dead body parts (aka hunting "trophies") in from Canada. Supposedly, environmentalists and animal rights activists have "unfairly made the polar bear into 'the panda bear of North America.'" insert crying baby picture here.)

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Polar Bears Bears Hunting Pandas 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

Arriving in North America around the time of Columbus, they have become “one of the most successful invasive species on earth.”. And keeping cats, natural hunters, indoors is, as a matter of biology and of common sense, not the healthiest state for them.

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Feral Cats Cats Tnr Feral 253

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2011

Gray Jays have long been more than willing to scarf down the offal that remains when hunters process a carcass so it is little wonder that they have adapted their foraging habits to include whatever scraps picnickers are willing to share. The bold gray-and-white birds know what humans are good for and that is as a source of food!

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Washington Wisconsin Minnesota Michigan 171

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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Ohio Bats Legislature Ducks 194

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Lead shot injured and killed condors young and old, lead in the carrion they ate, lead in the bullets that hunters shot at them. .” California Condors are thriving now, mostly, but Osborn’s experiences in the early 2000’s were years of triumph and heartbreak.

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 171

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2019

As with many areas in Latin America that boast humid tropical forest, Costa Rica has three species of hawk-eagles. A major year bird, one of my partner’s most wanted species, I hope I can go back to that site with her and refind this hunter of oropendolas, guans, and other large birds. This curassow is great. Black Hawk-Eagle.

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Costa Rica Eagles West Virginia Opossums 175

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

Accidentals is published by the ten-year old Torrey House Press, which has an impressive-looking roster of books, fiction and non-, about the outdoors and the American West, including The Plume Hunter, previously reviewed here. Accidentals. By Susan M. Torrey House Press, 342 pp., March 10,2020.

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Uruguay 2001 Bald Eagle Science 152

10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2011

The Ruffed Grouse is a bird of the forests across much of North America, from Alaska and the mountains of the west through Canada, and in the east down through the Appalachians to Georgia. It is a beautiful bird and well worth taking examining closely if such a situation can somehow be arranged.

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Georgia North America Alaska Hunters 195

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2019

Grant, Mark Twain, and Hunter S. In his The Birds of America , Dr. Crow’s almost exact contemporary John James Audubon observed that “The Fish-Crow is almost entirely confined to the maritime districts of the Southern States, and there it abounds at all seasons.” Gaines and Company continued distilling bourbon according to his recipe.

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Mississippi Kentucky New York Tennessee 116

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. They are part of the scarab beetle complex and over 300 species have been described, occurring not only in Africa but also Europe, Asia and the Americas. In Asia they are even commonly kept as pets!

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 197

Critter News

DECEMBER 9, 2009

Our members are pet owners, dog and cat clubs, obedience clubs and rescue groups as well as breeders, trainers, veterinarians, research scientists, farmers, fishermen, hunters and wildlife biologists. The membership roster of NAIA includes some of America's most respected animal professionals, advocates and enthusiasts.

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Animal Welfare Wayne Pacelle Welfare Groups 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2011

and Colombia respectively, have secured thirteen new conservation easements in Colombia with private landowners that will protect important habitat for the Cerulean Warbler – North America’s fastest declining neotropical migrant songbird.

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Colombia 2011 Deer Brazil 145

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

It was not a kitty cat, even though all of its relatives in the Americas were. But they don’t live in North America. I find it astonishing that people argue of whether feral cats are bad for birds in North America. In North America, you’ve got Bears at the large end, Cats in the middle, and at the smaller end, the Mustilids.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 253

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.

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 256

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2011

Seriemas are long-legged terrestrial hunters related to extinct terror birds (phorusrhacids). I think this proposal has a good shot at passing, at least in South America. Peregrine Falcon ( Falco peregrinus ) © David J. Ringer It’s exciting and mind-bending to ponder a seriema-falcon-parrot-passerine relationship.

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Parrots Falcons Costa Rica South America 222

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. As the dogs tear chunks of flesh from the terrified pig, the hunters undoubtedly feel proud of their accomplishment.

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New York Times New York Boars Hunters 40

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.

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Hunters Sri Lanka Asia Solomon Islands 188

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. Vultures, in North America (and this may or may not apply to all vultures) are so damn adapted to scavenging that they can’t see in front of themselves in flight.

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Humane Lions Buffalo Hunting 165

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2017

3) It is a sequel to Good Birders Don’t Wear White: 50 Tips From North America’s Top Birders , the popular 2007 collection of essays. Dorian Anderson finds a moment of connection with a duck hunter during his bicycle big year, and, despite his distaste for the sport, realizes that in hunters we have allies for conservation.

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2017 Costa Rica 2007 Hunters 135

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

I’ve long advocated for a habitat stamp strickly for birders as some of us don’t want to be labeled as hunters. Personally I’m very stubborn on this issue (not that I have anything against hunters)…but the minute they make a birding stamp, I’ll buy two!

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

Bufflehead are the smallest of North America’s diving ducks. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. They breed across Canada and Alaska’s boreal forest near ponds and lakes, using nest holes made by woodpeckers, almost exclusively flickers.

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2011 Ducks Deer New York 150

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.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 265

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

So, the Eastern Kingbird ”is one of the Tyrant Flycatchers, Tyrannidae –America’s largest bird family–365 different species.” America’s Vanishing Birds, my favorite section, is the first chapter that deals with bird extinction and conservation.

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Betty Crocker Birds 2008 2007 170

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

For ornithologists, it is the documentation of a multi-year project designed to record the distribution and abundance of birds in a specific area (in North America, usually a state or a province), utilizing a mapping method involving blocks and grids.

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 222

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

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. Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. I’ve received letters and emails from a number of avid hunters who find the concept of shooting cranes repugnant.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 241

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family.

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Birds 197

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

economy than either hunters or anglers: 2011 Fishing Expenditures: $41.8 Clearly, wildlife watchers as a block contribute more to the national economy than either hunters or anglers. Wildlife watchers in the United States spend a lot more money in a year on their collective activities than either hunters or anglers.

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Hunters Ducks 2006 Wildlife 237

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Hunters flocked to the Kittatinny Ridge to literally blast raptors out of the sky, buoyed by the belief that they were doing the world a great service. But this weekend has reawakened my faith that the state of birding in America is in good shape and that birding truly is a multi-generational pastime.

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Bald Eagle Pennsylvania Sanctuary Hunters 254

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2016

.” Panama hosts the largest breeding population of Harpy Eagles, though they were once “found from southern Mexico through Central and South America all the way down to northern Argentina.” If you want to see a Harpy Eagle, your best bet is to follow in the shoes of Sarah Woods and go to Panama.

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Panama Grizzly Bear Porcupines Eagles 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2014

The Oilbird today lives only in South America, but fossils of similar species are known from Wyoming. I wrote about the Hoatzin here a couple of years ago when Gerald Mayr published a paper hypothesizing that Hoatzins invaded South America from Africa by raft. The story just keeps getting better. Magpie Goose (Anseranas semipalmata).

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Madagascar Comoros South America Ecuador 275