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Tigers are underrated and I love them

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Tigers are an underrated big cat. I love all the big cats, ok? Lions hunt in prides. They don’t have to be ambush, precision hunters because there’s multiple of them. Tigers are solitary hunters. There, I said it. Listen, I love lions. I love leopards. I love cheetahs. But tigers get no respect. Blending in?

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#CeciltheLion is a dangerous direction for conservation

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Another day, another dead lion erupting in the world’s media, another opportunity for me to annoy my few remaining anti-hunting friends. Shoving a cat in a bin. Often just for being a woman (its telling how many of these “outrages” about hunting involve women, not men. Go read his take. I’ll wait. .

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What is the State Bird of New Mexico?

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Their impressive speed is used for hunting, and roadrunners will eat almost anything that moves. Car collisions, feral cats, and run-ins with hunters also cause problems, even for this speed-racer. Not so much, as the above photo demonstrates.

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Africa’s Big Five and Little Five

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Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. However it is now one of the world’s rarest animals after decades of relentless hunting and poaching. They are distributed from the southern tip of Africa (still occurring in the suburbs of Cape Town!)

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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

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” “You only need to change your direction,” said the cat, and ate it up. (If This is partly due to hunting in China, where about 90% of the species winter (HBW). But then, I am not a hunter, and do not understand them either). I just want to point out it could be much worse. And it does not even live in reeds.

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Does This Make My Mom A Bird Blogger?

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Win a Copy of Hawks at a Distance Great Horned Owl Taking a Deer Leg Cats Are Still Public Enemy Number One, For Birds Crossley ID Guide Giveaway Winners.Or Say Hello to the South Hill Crossbill Snipe Hunt in the Bird Blogosphere 3 Million Page Views! 2 Responses to “Does This Make My Mom A Bird Blogger?&# Wicked, right?

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Duck Butts

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These Blasts From The Past Just For Fun Avian ID Quiz #9: A New Week, A New Quiz Waxwing Working a String Snipe Hunt in the Bird Blogosphere Black is Back In Praise of Bionic Condors About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. Wicked, right?

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