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The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation and Who Pays for It

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The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. Given that few hunters actually consume coyotes, wolves, cougars, and except for a few individuals, even bears, it is obviously a “waste” of wildlife to shoot or trap these animals just for “fun” 2.

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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

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Not only is Kenn Kaufman a world-class birder and all-around naturalist who makes his living doing what he loves. Kaufman knows that duck hunters can be ardent, loving conservationists, too. How blessed can one guy be? Kaufman is a terrific writer and A Season on the Wind is a terrific book. by Kenn Kaufman.

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Flock to Marion

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Finally in 1799, the first visitors on this volcanic land were a group of French seal hunters who were after the fur seals that can be found hauled out on the beaches for fur and oil, which almost wiped out the local population of the species. None of the three voyagers made landfall due to poor weather and dangerous conditions.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

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Not always terrible – ok if you are in business class, or you catch it yourself. But then, I am not a hunter, and do not understand them either). If you are wondering how on earth such an obscure and self-referential joke could survive the editing process of this blog, the explanation is simple: There is no editing process.

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

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Women’s hats, specifically, a significant sartorial symbol of class and status in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries. This mass avian exploitation, amazing and repugnant, ultimately met its end through separate campaigns in the United States and Great Britain, each led by women, mostly upper-middle class women.

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What’s Up with the ABA?  Part II (Some Suggestions)

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Virtually all of the identification articles are geared towards world-class ID experts. Until now, it has only been open for hunters. More broadly, Birding and other ABA channels should have more content that is accessible to novice birders. There is already some, but most of it relates to conservation or general ornithology.

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A Question of Migration

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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 And, much of the research being done in those days was about the mechanisms.

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