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Falconry – Bloodsport or Alternative Form of Birding?

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Dirt hawking is a form of falconry that involves hunting rabbits and other small game with Harris Hawks (other hawk species also qualify). There are many examples in the animal world of pack behavior. I have never been one to advocate the needless killing of animals for whatever purpose. My reasons for this are as follows: 1.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

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People have moved useful plants and animals around with them as long as they had the wit to do so. They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. Rabbits are still an agricultural pest. In many ways, that is exactly what happened.

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Keep finding decapitated mice/rats under car

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Lots of squirrels, chipmunks, deer, rabbits. Ocassional robins, sparrows, crows. the last part is raptor behavior but I can't imagine what kind of bird would be small enough to choose this space when there's 300 yds of chain link fence right there, and I've yet to see a dead squirrel, rabbit or chipmunk.

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