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No Surprise, Except Hunters Will Still Use Lead

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Surely the hunters who come onto 10,000 Birds to talk about what great conservationists hunters are will agree that lead ammunition should not be used to hunt? Why, then, is lead still used to hunt? And why do hunting organizations largely line up against banning lead ammunition for hunting?

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Kamikaze Pigeons and a War to Extinction

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Serbia has a large number of pigeon fanciers and a long history of lack of law enforcement in the field of wildlife crime ( Newsweek on poaching in the Balkans ). APRIL 12: Second flight of a b h and then she hunts. ” Falcons do hunt pigeons, we all know that, but what is a Kamikaze pigeon? And a war to extinction??

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Accessibility Matters

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Some access issues are addressed by federal law. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed by Congress and signed into law by President George H.W. This post is picture-heavy because I think it is helpful to see everything, but the blog only supports small images, so larger versions (and even more photos) are on Flickr.

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Can Nature Take Care of Itself?

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This blog was written by Marge Gibson, co-founder of Raptor Education Group, Inc. Lead remains in both fishing and hunting products, with strong lobbies that insist lead poisoning is not real, even as our facilities fill regularly with birds afflicted with it. Is that individual bird vital to the world as a whole?

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My second eLearning Blog Article

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Our Best Birds of 2020

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Dragan seems to be confused as to what blog he writes on, as his BBOTY isn’t even a bird, but here’s how he described his encounter in his blog post : The next morning, through Yellowhammers and Eurasian Skylarks singing all around me, I went birding. If three times is a charm what is four times?

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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 1)

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Don’t you love it when blog post writers split topics that do not interest you in the first place into two separate parts? ” Blue-bearded Bee-eaters seem to have a pretty clever hunting strategy. Welcome to Birding Tongbiguan, part 1. They provoke honeybee colonies, which then fly out and attack the bird.

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