Books Experiments Hunting Killing 
10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2022
Some, according to her, consider it a form of slavery; a 1982 book in my library, The Birdwatcher’s Companion cites “the sentimentalist element of the wildlife protection movement” as deeming falconry to be comparable to cockfighting.). We serve them.”. Raptors are “pure savagery bereft of evil,” writes Montgomery with admiration.
10,000 Birds
JULY 4, 2023
I’m sure many of you have had similar experiences. I’m wondering as I write if you are shaking your head, uneasy that all these FACTS will interfere with your love of observing owls, an experience that easily borders on the mystical for some of us. They are also hunted. I don’t think so.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2021
His second book on migration is a tale of many birds and many research studies all connected by the theme of migration and by his thoughtful narrative voice. The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
One of the reasons I enjoy about reviewing books is the opportunity to read titles I wouldn’t ordinarily encounter, not because they aren’t good but because they don’t fall easily into a category. Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record by Errol Fuller is one of these books. more than there really was to see!” (p.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2014
Seeing a wild Snow Leopard is every wildlife enthusiast’s dream, probably the ultimate and most elusive wildlife experience on the planet. Peter Matthiessen’s famous book Snow Leopard describes such an attempt that proved ultimately unsuccessful in his primary goal of glimpsing a Snow Leopard. View of our camp in the Rhumbak Valley.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 29, 2014
Aficionados of natural history writing should recognise the author as that of the Song of the Dodo , the popular science book about biogeography and conservation that to me rates as one the finest popular science books ever written. The book is about zoonoses, diseases that jump from animals to people.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2017
2) This is a NEW book edited by Lisa A. 4) It is a delightful, engaging book. It is a fact that the book fulfills the promise of its subtitle. This story of avian hatred may be the most revolutionary essay in a book full of paeans to birds and birding.). White and Jeffrey A. Gordon, illustrated by Robert A. Braunfield.
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