Breeding Groups Hunters Raised 
10,000 Birds
JUNE 15, 2011
Many avid fans even wear bracelets… But then again, boobies as a group are pretty spectacular and first among equals must be the booby with the blue feet. As is often the case in birds, teenagers, and other living creatures, these charismatic colors play a prominent role in the booby’s breeding rituals.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 13, 2012
The land was of course already occupied by San (Bushmen) hunter-gatherers for millennia and more recently Bantu tribes of the Nguni branch (most notably Zulus and Xhosas). Woodward’s Barbet belongs to a group of barbets known as Green Barbets. In 1964, Clancey’s “Birds of Natal and Zululand” raised the total to 590.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Giving a few hundred hunters something else to shoot, in my opinion, cannot be worth the blowback from tens of thousands of people who are willing to travel and spend just to watch the birds fly over. 18 Responses to “Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2011
So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird?
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2011
The whistling duck call carries with it the crimes of big business, the failures of governments and the ignorance of irresponsible hunters. The National Trust of the Cayman Islands describes the success story as follows, “Willlie grows fruit and vegetables and raises pigs, and he noticed that the ducks were nibbling at the pig food.
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2011
Since I was mapping-in human ‘territories’ or home ranges, and trying to figure out how tropical hunter-gatherers found their way around the landscape, the mechanisms of migration were interesting to me. (It Another question this raises has to do with migration itself. Consider the implications. Why migrate?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2015
I was in contact with a group of birders for whom I arranged and guided an annual tour to Africa. We actually spent considerable time searching unsuccessfully for this highly sought-after bird; however I did suspect they were not gone, as several hunters I interviewed knew the bird and claimed it still existed.
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