10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2016

a) Recommendation : Develop and support implementation of a marketing plan with specific sales and revenue goals for waterfowl hunters, other hunters, non-hunters and wildlife viewers, etc. The physical stamp could be sent to hunters after March 10th each year. 1) Action : U.S. no physical stamp required).

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Ducks Hunters Hunting Wildlife 100

Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

If you can get through the article's pernicious nonsense, there are some salient points, albeit the result of confusion on the part of the author. Again, they just want to prevent the "cruel" hunters from killing Bambi's mother. I think he's the anti-human person full of self hatred, and this is a case of projection.

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Animal Rights Rights Broiler Chicken Animal 100

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

But whether with a flintlock or a modern rifle, hunting cruelly takes the life of a living, sentient being that has as much right to live as any hunter or writer. Beyond that, though, is the tragedy of the doe’s sole contact with a human: a moment that could have initiated a communion between the two was instead reduced to carnage.

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New York Times New York Mountain Lions Deer 40

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. It includes stunning photographs by Tipling of eagle hunters (as in Kazakhs who hunt with eagles), Stellar Sea Eagles in Hokkaido, Japan, and Black Kites at the dump near New Delhi, India.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 224

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

There is the flightless Atitlán Giant Grebe of Lake Atitlán, Guatemala, whose habitat was destroyed by a combination of human incursion and earthquake, but whose DNA lives on in hybrids that fly. Fuller’s astonishment at locating this “grail of extinct-bird photograph hunters” is contagious.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 270

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

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 belongs to a singular niche, the Big Year/Big Lifelist book. The books work best when the birding is coupled with the human element. And mosquitos.

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Hunters Sri Lanka Asia Solomon Islands 202

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

Their populations, plus those of other species that ‘wore’ the coveted long, colorful feathers used for women’s fashionable hats, were being dangerously depleted by hunters intent on feeding the millinery industry. The late Victorian age was not a good time to be an egret!

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Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 121

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. A passion for one bird family is also very useful. Like all talented travel writers, Dunn is adept at drawing us into his experiences.

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

March 14, 2011 Kentucky Department of Fish and Wildlife Jon Gassett, Commissioner One Sportsman’s Lane Frankfort, Kentucky 40601 Dear Mr. Gassett, I am a writer, naturalist and artist with a special interest in human/bird interactions. Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 254

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2020

This boldness isn’t restricted to exchanges with other grouse, either: in some locales, members of this circumpolar family are astonishingly foolhardy around humans. But there’s at least one night on the Scottish calendar when the grouse enjoys a reprieve, at least from human appetites.

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Sheep Branding Ireland Fowl 211

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? Do all hunters realize that? It gives one to wonder why this designation was made.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2016

” While they can live in human-modified environments, they are threatened both by deforestation and hunting, and less than 50,000 remain in the wild. Unfortunately, they are not afraid of humans, so are easy to kill.’”. ”

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Panama Grizzly Bear Porcupines Eagles 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

This is in addition to the many articles and exhibits and even film devoted to the bird, one of the few species whose death was witnessed and noted down to the exact day, Tuesday, September 1, 1914 (though there is some question about the exact time). It’s an effective introduction. They are from a series called Aviary.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 161

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Australia is a vast country with a very small human population, which mostly clings to the edge of the continent. Some birds existed only on outlying islands and in small populations, so once humans arrived then there would have been a huge risk to their survival. ” . … Extinction is forever.

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Species Australia Birds Parrots 176

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Perhaps the most positive reaction came from noted bird photographer Marie Read, who noted that the information about waterfowl reaction to humans and decoys would be of great interest to nature photographers. He strongly believes that waterfowl hunters are the major reason we have waterfowl and wetlands in North America today.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 124

Critter News

APRIL 21, 2009

WHO could defend the slaughter of 300,000 harp, hooded and grey seals by hook-wielding hunters out to make a quick buck from the seals' pelts? The increasingly shrill condemnation of Canada's seal cull is based on a view of humans as bloodthirsty destroyers of nature. Tags: seal hunters idiocy.

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Seals Slaughter Slaughtered Culling 100