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The slaughter tourism trade in Serbia

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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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Can Birds Be Safe? If Only.

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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. Sometimes two or three a day!”.

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Slaughtered to Extinction

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There is a great article about Passenger Pigeons by Bill Loomis in The Detroit News today. It is well worth a read.

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Castellare di Castellina: Chianti Classico (2019)

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An avian butcher at work: Red-backed Shrike ( Lanius collurio ) depicted by Dutch bird illustrator J.G. Keulemans (1842 – 1912) in Onze vogels in huis en tuin (“Our Birds in Home and Garden”). Good birding and happy drinking! Castellare di Castellina: Chianti Classico (2019).

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Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest

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The “Crow Down” is a “hunting contest” where both adults and children slaughter as many crows as they possibly can in two days. On the website he reminisces fondly about his “best hunt,” where he killed 3,125 crows in 9 days, bringing to mind the days when people slaughtered seemingly endless flocks of passenger pigeons and herds of buffalo.

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Bird Conservation News: The Good, The Bad (and Ugly), and More Good

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If you are a migratory bird in Europe and western Asia, this is your sweet spot. This grim scenario is a fact of life for millions of migrating songbirds, raptors, and other birds each year. Volunteers with the Committee Against Bird Slaughter sneak into a grove where a farmer has just placed lime sticks to snag unwary birds.

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Great News! Feral Cats to be Removed from Plumb Beach, Brooklyn!

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Seeing as Plumb Beach is a known stopover area for large numbers of shorebirds, a known breeding area for a variety of saltmarsh species, including Clapper Rails , and habitat for a wide variety of mammals, reptiles, insects, and other bird species, this is a long overdue move. … Conservation Brooklyn cats Plum Beach'