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The nest in the header photo in a Poinciana tree belongs to a Little Friarbird and they have been breeding recently and there are many juvenile birds about. The Magpie-larks have also been breeding recently and also using the Poinciana trees for nesting. They also offer an excellent opportunity for birds to nest.

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Breeding Australia Family Collecting 147

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JANUARY 9, 2023

The Bar-backed Partridge was also one of four focal species in an investigation into illegal bird hunting in Southwestern China. ” Unfortunately, this makes it much less likely this hunting will stop once people get richer. Unsurprisingly, it is.

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China Hunting Birds illegal 147

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MAY 22, 2022

This will change over time of course and once it rains again you would need to consider if you had the right vehicle to access the area. Dragonflies photobombing on the right as we approach. If they are hunting you will undoubtedly find out if there are Nankeen Night-herons in the area when they take off. Purple Swamphens.

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Geese Ducks Breeding 2015 211

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

We sailed right into a group of more than a dozen Hoatzins (cover photo, by Tyler Ficker) with their orange mohawks and blue facial skin. Because of that, the bird has a manure-like odour and is only hunted by humans for food in times of dire need” [ Source ]. Later, we would be seeing dolphins every day.

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Dolphins Colombia Otters Birds 263

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AUGUST 1, 2011

Bald Eagle image is by Francois Portmann and is used with permission You know, I’ve been thinking about this whole dustup over hunting cranes in Tennessee and now Kentucky. I think it’s time to hunt Sandhill Cranes. We’ve always hunted Bald Eagles. There was a lot of hunting for Bald Eagles—it is traditionally a game species.

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Bald Eagle Eagles Hunting Kentucky 261

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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.

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Germany Birds Hunters Owls 195

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OCTOBER 9, 2023

Another item they feed on is hunting edible bird nest swiftlets, which are quite common in edible swiftlet houses in Sabah, Malaysia ( source ). The first attempt in hunting was made by the male hornbill which was seen snapping at a passing swiftlet, but was unsuccessful.

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Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 131

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JULY 17, 2011

As you’ll remember, Kentucky’s Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources unanimously passed its sandhill crane hunting proposal. The public comment period on the Kentucky sandhill crane hunting proposal ends AUGUST 1 2011. Here are six top reasons to protest this hunt. Why allow hunters to shoot right into the middle of them?

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Kentucky Hunters Hunting Protest 260

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MAY 3, 2022

It stops those thousands of migrating birds flying across the Gulf of Mexico and directs them right onto the trees, fields, sanctuaries, beaches along the Bolivar Peninsula, where they hopefully find food and fresh water. High Island in April requires Weather, so I was told. Clapper Rail. Back to the Flats.

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Houston Texas Sanctuary Sparrows 225

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APRIL 7, 2020

It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. We are cautioned to keep the location of the eagle a secret. 2019), and now this book.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 224

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AUGUST 19, 2020

Last weekend I wasn’t on the hunt for any species in particular though. Many of these were still in their breeding plumage, a special treat for us here in the tropics as they would soon shed their richly patterned exterior for a drab and more mundane outfit. There were more Lesser Yellowlegs than we could count.

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Trinidad South America Blackbirds Industry 190

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JUNE 16, 2022

From one side, the reserve is under the attack of spreading arable fields, from another by numerous wind generators and it is no easy task to support the surviving breeding birds within its borders. Located in the Kutch District of Gujarat, the Naliya Grassland is the smallest reserve of India, covering only 2 square kilometers (yes – 0.77

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Gazelles India 2012 Endangered Species 261

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

Hopefully, the winter time in Shanghai gives the Black-faced Buntings some time to relax from the challenges of the breeding season. One Japanese study found that it arrives at its breeding grounds earlier than in the past, most likely due to increased spring temperatures. No wonder no species are named after me.

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Birds Eggs Bangladesh China 221

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JULY 9, 2015

In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. One White-eyed Buzzard has turned its back to us. It is too early to show.

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Tigers Dogs India Snow Leopard 245

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AUGUST 3, 2014

Whether the inspiration to this post came from Germany winning the U19 European football championship yesterday right on the heels of our (adult) team winning the world cup (Yes! At the beginning of the 20th century they were nearly extinct, with no breeding pairs left in the west of Germany and just very few in Germany’s East.

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Eagles Germany Breeding Hunting 170

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MAY 28, 2015

They got the message right. And that is why the hides are where they are, not to admire the scenery (or shoot at it – hunting is prohibited in the reserve and the ban is enforced). km long bird path leading to the Palic 2 hide – ignore the confusing arrows pointing left, the path goes over the dyke at the right hand side).

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MARCH 31, 2016

Although we do enjoy it immensely, we are not doing it for fun, but to gather information on distribution, habitat choice and density of breeding pairs of owls for the first national and second pan-European atlas of breeding birds. Was it the right way? We break, play the call and get the response of a female.

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Owls Birds Investigation Breeding 186

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JULY 12, 2017

These lovely birds are actually quite common, many of which can be seen right along the water front of down town La Paz. The Bill will have a blue gray base during the breeding season. Once the tide has gone out, then they hunt for the many fine meals that are hidden under the surface of the mud.

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Salamander Fish Hunting Breeding 100

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MARCH 14, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public comment on a proposal to hunt sandhill cranes in Kentucky. Kentucky Dept.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 254

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MARCH 14, 2019

Cranes breed in very small numbers in UK but are always impressive en masse. And also Golden Oriole because of its good looks, even though the UK has one tiny breeding site.”. Black Storks migrate along and breed in the Danube flood zone. White-tailed Eagle breeds along large rivers, wherever water mingles with forest.

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Serbia Birds Woodpeckers Breeding 250

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

When I reached the levee earlier that morning, I met an elderly hunter from whom I learned that there was an ongoing duck and pheasant hunt, but no one was shooting from, nor towards the embankment, hence I should be safe there. These handsome finches breed in the far north of Europe and come here for the winter only.

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Serbia Otters Boars Eagles 246

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MAY 13, 2022

Lesser Whistling Ducks are “not threatened by hunting as they are not considered good to eat” ( Wikipedia ). If you take a feral pigeon, bleach it and then batik it using the right colors, the result might be a Pink-necked Green Pigeon (1). Whether you are a creature of the night (like this Large-tailed Nightjar ) or not.

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Singapore Birds Zebras Feral 235

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SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

There were reasons to think that the White-winged Guan had been extirpated by over-hunting. Hunting pressure in a heavily populated region (even for Nineteenth Century standards) and easy access were likely to result in the extirpation of the Guan in the regions surrounding the site of collection. What a horror! What a disaster!

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Collecting Peru Neglecting Hunting 270

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JULY 7, 2015

To successfully hunt and breed they need clean and clear lakes, and so are sensitive to pollution that affects both them and/or their fishy prey. Once a fish is hooked, the loon snatches the snared fish right off the line – much to the chagrin of the fishermen and women!

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Minnesota Litter United States Legislation 167

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JULY 5, 2018

Locations, dates, species and numbers, right? And that was the time when all 400 km2 were still open to annual rhythms of flooding and represented a famous waterbird hunting ground. Nevertheless, Nagy was right. But what do you write in your notebook? Well, with some limitations, that much I could understand.

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Beavers Serbia Eagles Hungary 127

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OCTOBER 23, 2023

Apparently, when breeding, the two parents divide incubation duties, with one bird taking over the daytime duties and another one the nighttime. The Oriental Darter is classified as Near Threatened – the reasons are the usual ones: habitat loss, hunting, and pollution. Lucky him, right? of its hunts are successful.

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Birds Eagles Elephants Rhinoceros 229

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MARCH 20, 2011

Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. With the proposed hunting seasons on sandhill cranes being discussed in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin, we must not forget the whooping crane, which travels and winters in the big sandhill crane flocks. Why not just shoot the biggest one?

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243

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JUNE 26, 2013

The survival of songbirds depends in part upon eliminating illegal hunting. That means passing over the Mediterranean Sea and the Middle East, where you’re liable to get shot, trapped, or otherwise hunted. The population of Millerbirds on Laysan has doubled , and breeding seems to be going well.

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Cambodia Slaughter Slaughtered Cyprus 145

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JANUARY 17, 2019

Two hundred yards further, the first Common Goldeneye and Smew started to appear and, while counting Smew and geese, a Great Bittern took flight from one stand of reeds to another, right in front of us. These globally threatened raptors breed from Ukraine eastward through Siberia and only a few come to overwinter here.

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Geese Serbia Birds Estonia 155

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MARCH 15, 2016

Farallon NWR , a group of islands near San Francisco, hosts the largest colonies of breeding seabirds south of Alaska. These refuges support huge numbers of swans, geese, ducks, cranes, and shorebirds as they hopscotch their way to breeding grounds in the north. These protected areas are not merely convenient, they are essential.

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Wildlife Grizzly Bear Puerto Rico United States 189

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SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

Behind the marsh is a quarry, in front of it the Gulf of Argostoli, a small pine wood to the right and some eucalyptus trees to the left. Two-thirds of the world’s population breeds colonially on Greek islands. An afternoon is already growing old while I am driving downhill to the Livadi marsh at the island of Kefallonia, Greece.

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Falcons Greece Madagascar Game 184

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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

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AUGUST 17, 2012

I quickly discovered they are vocal creatures, perhaps because it was summer time and the breeding season was just finishing up. She flew overhead glancing down from time to time as Buteos do when hunting. But suddenly a switch was flipped and she decided something wasn’t right. Vocal when perched, and vocal when aloft.

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Gophers Argentina Oregon California 175

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MAY 30, 2019

He had stalked the nest for days, waiting for just the right time when she would be on the verge of fledging, then took her into his care. Done properly, a young hawk is curtailed in a growing compulsion to fly greater distances and hunt for herself by a process sometimes called “manning.” Tom Cade and Gyr by Kate Davis.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 190

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AUGUST 14, 2012

In Africa, our bee-eaters occur from the southern tip of the continent right through to the far north, occupying an incredible range of habitats and niches, from the interior of the deepest rainforests of the Congo to the arid steppes of the Sahel. Two populations exist, the westernmost breeds in the western Sahara (e.g.

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Africa South Africa Gabon Uganda 265

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APRIL 22, 2021

The main conservation issues are habitat loss, hunting and wildlife trade. They cover all species and distinctive subspecies, non-passerines in flight, males and females, immatures and non-breeding plumages. While there were 28 artists, you may be forgiven for the impression that there could be only two or three.

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Indonesia Timor Brunei Guinea 264

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Must be a joke, right? However, you can’t come to this small Central American country to see the following birds because they are gone: White-faced Whistling-duck : Yes, this cool looking duck used to build nests, breed, and dabble around the wetlands of Costa Rica and this is why you will see it illustrated in Stiles and Skutch.

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Costa Rica Species Panama Birds 228