10,000 Birds
JULY 8, 2013
Yes, the earth has gone around the sun twice since the uproar from birders and other lovers of wildlife managed to convince the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency to table the idea of hunting Sandhill Cranes in Tennessee for two years. Cancel the 17-year-old annual festival, and propose a hunting season on cranes. It’s bad PR.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2011
Two new studies “add scientific evidence that hunters’ lead ammunition often finds its way into carrion-eating birds, such as eagles and turkey vultures.&# So when will conservation-minded hunters stop using lead ammunition? Why, then, is lead still used to hunt? Why, then, is lead still used to hunt?
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 15, 2018
Habitat destruction combined with hunting has pushed them away from their former breeding grounds. Last but not least, the Special Nature Reserve is being managed by the local hunting club – the reserve occupies their hunting ground. Bustards are very susceptible to any kind of disturbance and, naturally, hunters like to shoot.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 18, 2015
This may not sound like much, but it is really good compared to just a few decades ago, when hunting had significantly reduced its range and overall population. All the birds we saw were banded, as they had been released in an effort to re-introduce the species to those areas within their former range where hunters had been all too effective.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2022
If you think it is rather pretentious to start a birding blog post with a Kafka story, I fully agree with you. This is partly due to hunting in China, where about 90% of the species winter (HBW). But then, I am not a hunter, and do not understand them either). I just want to point out it could be much worse.
10,000 Birds
JULY 9, 2014
I’m not going to rehash that war here, seeing as how it is a bird blog and not one about foreign policy, but it is perhaps appropriate to note the maelstrom of violence that has been pretty much ongoing since the neocons went in to make everything better. Unsustainable hunting leads to extinction. she’s Texan.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2012
Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. This blog post will discuss both the Big and Little members of these quintuplets. However it is now one of the world’s rarest animals after decades of relentless hunting and poaching.
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