10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Collecting birds was clearly a dangerous pastime. Johann Georg Wagner has seven birds named after him, from a chachalaca to a woodpecker, but would he have found more if hadn’t accidentally shot himself while out collecting? Wagner wasn’t the only one to have died from gunshot wounds.

Falcons 221

Falcons Collecting 2003 Wounded 221

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2019

With Halloween just around the corner, there’s some harmless fun to be had in in indulging in a bit of playful superstition about some of our feathered friends, who – it bears repeating – are generally benign and not the least bit menacing. Good birding and happy drinking – and happy Halloween! *

2015 108

2015 Denmark California Fowl 108

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Wuerthner states, “Perhaps the most significant and obvious conflict between the goals of the NAMWC and actual behavior of state agencies has to do with management of predators, particularly bears, cougars, coyotes and wolves. Those whose actions result in additional costs should bear them. were funded by hunters and 95.1%

Wildlife 238

Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 238

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

.’s Birds of New Guinea notes that the species is often seen moving in “high-flying flocks,” and Coates and Bishop’s Bird of Wallacea declares, “this species has suffered greatly from human predation and is now generally scarce to very rare.” A new paper this year ( Heupink et al.

Solomon Islands 275

Solomon Islands Guinea Mauritius Humane 275