Article Breeding Hunting illegal 
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2013
The survival of songbirds depends in part upon eliminating illegal hunting. That means passing over the Mediterranean Sea and the Middle East, where you’re liable to get shot, trapped, or otherwise hunted. And it’s the subject of a new article in National Geographic by author and birder Jonathan Franzen.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2020
The authors’ detailed delineation of problems with the accuracy of NYC breeding bird surveys or with the limits of historical writings may test a reader’s patience. Because, as this book demonstrates so well, it is sometimes important to look back in order to move forward. It’s a very mixed chapter.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. wrote a lengthy article in Outside magazine (Jan. 2019), and now this book. Author Joshua Hammer.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2023
Another item they feed on is hunting edible bird nest swiftlets, which are quite common in edible swiftlet houses in Sabah, Malaysia ( source ). The first attempt in hunting was made by the male hornbill which was seen snapping at a passing swiftlet, but was unsuccessful.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2024
A study on the breeding biology of Whitehead’s Broadbill was just published in May 2023 but leaves a bit of a puzzle as the breeding success is described as relatively high, meaning there should be other reasons for the population decline of the species. Leave the bad jokes to me, please. Must have been a camera fault.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
The Conservation section is frustratingly brief, stating the expected—massive loss of forest due to logging and a plantation economy, weak enforcement of laws regulating hunting and trade, understaffing of reserves and parks. There are more than 1,300 distribution maps, indicating resident birds, breeding visitors, and migrants.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2015
I returned home with very mixed feelings, which have spurred this article. Here local hunters had known about the colony and for generations had been harvesting the birds by simply picking the adults off their nests during the breeding season. Ghana’s people are just as friendly as before. million hectares in 2007.
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