Critter News
DECEMBER 8, 2009
This article describes the devastation being inflicted on Montana's wildlife by serial poachers. I would have thought serial poaching and serial killing were essentially the same, with the difference being the species, but this article says there is a difference. It's also an insight into how serial poachers think.
10,000 Birds
JULY 26, 2014
For example, to irrupt , at least as far as animals are concerned, is simply to enter a region suddenly and in very large numbers. Perhaps our outrage at invasive species can be a bit hypocritical at times. This is probably too much to think about every time you encounter what we consider an invasive species.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 25, 2014
It’s bad enough to be an invasive species — the term shows a major fall in public esteem from the days when acclimatization was the rage. But as a descriptor, ‘invasive species’ doesn’t have a patch on ‘noxious weed’ Call something a noxious weed and there’s no doubt where you stand on it.
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2015
If I could walk with the animals, talk with the animals, Grunt and squeak and squawk with the animals, And they could talk to me!”. From the film version of Doctor Dolittle ).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 20, 2014
The species that calls western Montana home is the black cottonwood, while plains and narrowleaf cottonwood call the rest of the state home. They can grow large and magnificent, providing trunks large enough for dug-out canoes and building materials along with medicine and other practical uses from their buds and bark.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 1, 2021
Immediately at the start of the book, Meiburg infects the reader with his delight in one caracara species, the Striated, a resident of the Falkland Islands and Tierra del Fuego, and the southernmost bird of prey in the world. Well, I know of one such guy, anyway. With abundant roadkill (1.3
10,000 Birds
APRIL 12, 2013
” Not because there’s anything wrong with common or confiding species, but because depending on where you live and what you do with your habitat, darn near anything can be a backyard bird. Here in Montana I use an expansive definition of “yard” to put Barrow’s Goldeneye on my yard-list.
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