10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2019
He gives lots of marvelous examples, such as the Blackpoll warbler, “among the most astonishing and extreme of all migratory birds.”. Example A, perfectly up to date, is the wind turbine. Kaufman knows that duck hunters can be ardent, loving conservationists, too. by Kenn Kaufman.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2019
Their populations, plus those of other species that ‘wore’ the coveted long, colorful feathers used for women’s fashionable hats, were being dangerously depleted by hunters intent on feeding the millinery industry. Ironically, only the women of one of these campaigns, the suffragette movement, have been recognized and honored.
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4 The Love Of Animals
MARCH 3, 2010
I also wanted you to know about the Who’s Your Good Dog Campaign. Following Hartley’s example, she learned that people were okay, and that touching was nice. 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. It already has me drawn in!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
The 6 th edition of the National Geographic Field Guide to the Birds of North America , for example, includes “extinct” and “probably extinct” species in a chapter, mixed in with accidentals.) Fuller’s astonishment at locating this “grail of extinct-bird photograph hunters” is contagious. And remembered.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
If you wrote to Tennessee in the 10,000 Birds campaign this winter, you can cut and paste your letter, changing “Tennessee&# to “Kentucky.&# Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. I’ve received letters and emails from a number of avid hunters who find the concept of shooting cranes repugnant.
10,000 Birds
JULY 11, 2012
By way of an example take the Western Gulls that I studied on the Farallon Islands in California. One of the first examples I ever encountered was in the books of Gerald Durrell, the famous conservationist who was an early pioneer of the roles of zoos in conservation. This is a very serious business here in New Zealand.
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