10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

There are few sights more wrenching to a wildlife rehabilitator than a convulsing, lead-poisoned bird. In what some might see as an unlikely alliance, wildlife rehabilitators, veterinarians, and – yes – hunters have banded together to convince those who hunt to use copper bullets instead of lead.

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Hunters Wildlife Rehabilitation Hunting Legislation 187

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

The Mourning Dove ( Zenaida macroura) is among the most abundant and widespread terrestrial birds endemic to North and Middle America. This gentle bird frequents bird feeders and readily nests almost anywhere. A seemingly rather peaceful bird, it gets its name from its easily identifiable mournful call. v=44fNo6B5gUI.

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Hunters Hunting North America Game 180

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2011

Gassett, replying to a letter questioning the hunt, opens thus: “ Sandhill cranes are considered to be one of the best tasting of all migratory birds. Their slow wing beat keeps the breast meat from being as dark and strong flavored as many other migratory birds. Well, fire up my grill. The full commission meets June 3, 2011.

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Kentucky Hunting Tennessee Indiana 258

10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2015

Nyala are much appreciated by hunters and tourists, which has led to their being introduced to many parks and reserves around Southern Africa outside their natural range. Like many of its close relatives the males and females are different in appearance, with the females looking most like their relatives. A female Nyala in Imfolozi.

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Africa Hunters Goats Sheep 173

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2011

Which wasn’t a surprise, since everyone on the commission is a hunter. Brokering land to hunters, hooking them up with guide services…all for a fee. It isn’t hard even for a simple bird painter to divine that Commissioner Gassett stands to gain financially from a crane hunt in Kentucky.

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Hunting Kentucky Broker Protest 172

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

He was a small male, six or seven months old, and obviously not a skilled hunter. Meanwhile, he slowly graduated from liquids to defrosted mice: first just organ meat, then skinned and deboned, then just skinned, then the whole mouse. “Oh, All three arrived ten minutes later. THEN we’ll kick him out.

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Mice Squirrels Hunters New York 220

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2017

For nearly a hundred years, after the eggers, meat-hunters, plume-hunters, and a human-influenced gull population boom, puffins were absent from the island. Or perhaps it’s just a bird with cold feet? Eastern Egg Rock is a tiny, rocky island well within site of the Maine-land. Black Guillemots are awesome.

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Puffins Eggs Hunters United States 100