10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2011

News stories of turkeys causing car accidents abound around the US right now. I think the main reason turkey/vehicle collisions are more noticeable this time of year are breeding hormones. Deer season is challenging enough to navigate and but everyone seems to wear orange an hunters in trees are easy to spot.

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Turkey Hunters New Jersey Boston 241

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2011

Or The Hunter Becomes The Hunted What am I talking about? After all, Shell-billed Sandpiper must be closely related so maybe we can get a captive breeding program going and then backcross the results later and save the spoonie? crickets* Fine, you’re probably right, it is too ambitious a program anyway. Great idea, no?

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Hunters Hunting Breeding Rights 160

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2022

” It might be better to adopt a random male teenager right away. Wikipedia uses the same source to provide the same information as for the Little Pied Cormorant on the appearance of the eggs over time: “They become increasingly stained with feces, as does the nest, over the duration of the breeding season.”

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Birds Australia Parrots Memphis 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2024

Griffon Vultures have a long breeding season. Isn’t it a bit late to breed? Why bother with such a risky journey if you aren’t going to breed? We can speculate that it’s part of the learning curve to adulthood or it may simply be that the non-breeding areas in Africa become inhospitable for them at this time of the year.

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Africa Morocco Senegal Europe 245

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2016

A month ago I visited this site, right at the edge of Belgrade for the first time, only to discover that I cannot get into the overgrown area in my low-clearance city car. They normally breed inside roof spaces of tall buildings and neither of us has observed them using clay cliffs.

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Abandon Abandoning Abandonment Serbia 156

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2019

An asphalt road passes by the eastern pond, the site of the breeding colony of Black-headed Gulls , in some years with a pair or two of Mediterranean Gulls among them. Still, local hunters shoot waterfowl here, so be extra careful from September to February, especially on weekends. There are three large ponds and several smaller.

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Serbia New Jersey Europe Hunters 164

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

Barn Swallows are a bit unhappy with their image as restless aerial hunters and would like to gain a more stately and dignified profile. The Brown Crake is not that easy to see in Shanghai even though it is breeding here. The rather drab-looking female can only look colorful by grabbing some colorful insects. Accessorizing for birds.

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Singapore Birds Mountain Goats Giraffes 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

That’s right, the overwhelming benefits to the environment and the economy are generated by non-consumptive uses of the refuges like wildlife photography, environmental education, wildlife observation and interpretation, not hunting and fishing. Note in this 2010 video, birders, birdwatching and kayakers are mentioned, not hunters.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 145

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 3, 2010

She has a new book out (which I am reading right now) called One Good Dog. My second favorite rescue story is that of Hunter, a beagle-ish dog that my daughter and son-in-law adopted from a shelter in Massachusetts. Turns out even though they knew that Hunter had found his forever home, he didn’t know it.

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Pit Bulls Rescue Massachusetts Feral Cats 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2011

Though breeding grounds for neotropical migrants get the bulk of attention in North America wintering grounds are just as critical, and any news about land being preserved as wintering habitat for the Cerulean Warbler is wonderful. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

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Colombia 2011 Deer Brazil 145

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

The little stiff-tails are almost year-round at Jamaica Bay though almost all leave to breed in the summer and in the depths of winter, when the ponds are almost completely frozen, they tend to head for open water. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica Deer 154

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans.

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 267

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Unfortunately for the hunters these were already all extinct, and with the introduction of cats, rats, stoats and the like the only upland game bird, the New Zealand Quail , was fast on the way out too. Using ministerial connections he obtained 100 mallard eggs from the US and began to breed and distribute them.

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Species New Zealand Ducks Game 169

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2011

They breed across Canada and Alaska’s boreal forest near ponds and lakes, using nest holes made by woodpeckers, almost exclusively flickers. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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2011 Ducks Deer New York 150

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2021

Golden Vireos can also be seen near my home, while Rufous-backed Robins even visit my garden, when conditions are right. And breeding season allows me to notice certain details that I might miss during the rest of the year. Here are three other endemics that can be seen in Paso Ancho.

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Woodpeckers Hunters Falcons Breeding 235

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Oh, cheeky me left out another alternative for both cases, which brings us right to the origin of these sayings: the devil. Yes, Germans were a particularly supersticious breed in the days of old, and would not dare to use the word devil even when cursing. To anyone else, a Blume is a flower and a tail is a tail.

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Germany Birds Hunters Owls 195

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. Additionally, sandhill cranes reproduce very slowly.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 254

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Black Stork and three pairs of White-tailed Eagles breed here. Common Kingfisher , Common Hoopoe and the European Bee-eater come from their nesting holes at the high loess-bluff of the opposite, right bank of the river. In some years, Spanish Sparrows were reported breeding inside White Storks nests in Sakule. eBird bar chart.

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Serbia Birds Bulgaria Farming 168

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

These conditions offered easy access to hunters in a habitat where a bird as large as a Guan would have little chances to hide or scape. A captive breeding program was established with a facility at Gustavo del Solar’s property, not far from where the birds were re-discovered. Birds hatched in captivity have been re-introduced.

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Collecting Peru Neglecting Hunting 270

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?

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2011

The variety of plumages that they show and the way different individuals molt at different times is interesting to me and I have stopped being surprised at seeing a small flock of ruddies with some nearly in full breeding, or alternate plumage, while others are still in their basic, or non-breeding plumage. Wicked, right?

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Ducks 2011 New York New York City 144

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Corey Mar 3rd, 2011 at 11:10 pm The drawing will be based on chance but I reserve the right to disqualify extraordinarily lousy entries. Wicked, right? Last Chance to Enter Mar 10th, 2011 at 5:01 am [.]

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Deer 187

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

He reasons out answers to both questions, finally stating that, despite what many eyewitnesses wrote, the birds had to have laid more than one egg and that the birds had to have nested more than once a breeding season. Or the destruction of the forests, food source and breeding grounds. Or the absence of legal protection. What a wrong!

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 161

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

because, if the film rights to this book have not been snapped up yet, Hollywood is making a huge mistake) (c) Will I ever see a Blakiston’s Fish Owl? b) Who will play author Jonathan C. Slaght in the film version? The fish owl is Jonathan Slaght’s grail and also, more prosaically, his dissertation topic.

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Owls Russia Fish Research 142

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

from left to right Fred, Mike, Isaac, Andrew, Gene (in back), Tom Though it was an absurdly long trip and the ratio of birding to driving was not ideal the twitch was well worth it. Here’s hoping this bird makes it back to its home turf to breed and comes back to spend another winter in New York State! Wicked, right?

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New York Woodpeckers Jordan 2011 204

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

Not to mention, its brilliantly bulbous crimson throat, bloated during breeding season must be a sight! He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Wicked, right? The Magnificent Frigatebird is the bird I would want to see. Hat-tip to Stella.

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Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 216

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

We already had South Africa, Zambia and Uganda under our belts, but my clients’ request for the next year came right out of the blue: Ghana! Here local hunters had known about the colony and for generations had been harvesting the birds by simply picking the adults off their nests during the breeding season.

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 199

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

All of this leads to a longer life list, which is, after all, the entire point of bridwatching, right? 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

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Research Humane Compassion New York 201

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

The population decline is generally blamed on habitat destruction and introduced predators, but inter-breeding may also be to blame. The Painted Snipe is another bird in Australia that is under threat and was actually only determined to be a species in its own right rather than a migratory species from the north, in recent years.

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Species Australia Birds Parrots 176

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

Considering the bird survived a season in an area saturated with hunters and birds of prey, this facemelting rarity deserves our respect. Secretive, silent and undetectable outside of its breeding season, found only in the U.S. And, the best thing was that it did not require tapes, just the right habitat and good ears and patience.

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2012 Birds Guatemala Florida 155

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

.” It is a relief to eventually reach the chapter on The Life of Waterfowl, written in a much more conversational style and unashamedly fascinated with waterfowl’s unique breeding behaviors. He strongly believes that waterfowl hunters are the major reason we have waterfowl and wetlands in North America today. million to 2.2

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 124