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Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest

10,000 Birds

The “Crow Down” is a “hunting contest” where both adults and children slaughter as many crows as they possibly can in two days. Some people think it’s just plain fun to kill enormous numbers of animals and pile up their bodies, and when there’s no “bag limit” it’s legal to do so. Why do they do this?

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The slaughter tourism trade in Serbia

10,000 Birds

Ten years ago, those flocks were reduced to a few hundred birds. Nowadays, the flocks are even smaller, merely a few dozen birds. As we speak, in Serbia these birds are still hunted in August and September. Then comes summer and the birds start migrating. Money and effort are being invested in that protection.

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Outdoor/Feral Cat Problem? Call the SWAT Team

10,000 Birds

What do you do when you – a citizen whose rights are protected by the U.S. This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats.

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Can Birds Be Safe? If Only.

10,000 Birds

Another product has been invented that could cut down on the number of wild birds killed by domestic cats. The idea is that brilliant colors will warn birds that something is coming, and they’ll fly away. “The The Birdsbesafe® collar is highly effective at reducing bird deaths,” she writes. Does Birdsbesafe work?

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Altruism, Albatrosses, and Vicious Young Men

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The three young men returned to their friends, bragged about their exploits, and showed them trophies: metal banding tags, which members of the Pacific Rim Conservation had carefully placed on the albatrosses’ legs in order to keep track of individual birds. The young men had severed the birds’ legs in order to remove the tags.

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On The Respectful Emperor

Animal Person

I've been having a difficult time blogging both here and at Animal Rights & AntiOppression lately because I feel like my thoughts are like " Groundhog Day." There are few animal rights stories in the news. Lipka introduced me to the idea of killing "respectfully." That one left me speechless. "My Respectfully?

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On Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS

Animal Person

And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations. Corwin tells the story of the Maasai of Kenya, whose culture involved disdain for and slaughter of lions. if we believe it's our right to do what we want with the lives of other animals. . . .