Collecting Humane Killing Rights 
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 28, 2015
After my post about collecting two weeks ago I received a bit of feedback, some positive, some negative, and I’ve been mulling it over with the intention of writing about some of the issues that could be considered the root cause of the disagreement. You see, the bird was collected for scientific study. Or how gracefully it flew?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
They may be about bird eggs ( The Most Perfect Thing: The Inside (and Outside) of a Bird’s Egg , 2016), or a 17th-century ornithologist ( Virtuoso by Nature: The Scientific Worlds of Francis Willughby, 2016), or How Bullfinches learn songs from humans ( The Wisdom of Birds: An Illustrated History of Ornithology.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 22, 2019
But I insisted he try the blood and violence guy, and he humored me, only to send me, later, a longish email, pointing out the flaws in my judgment and in the book and the author, and closing with this: “Since I didn’t care for any of his characters, I really didn’t care who killed whom.”. Fair enough.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
” This leads to obvious conflicts with the NAMWC prohibition against the frivolous killing and waste of wildlife. This standing and the rights associated with it must be enforceable against the government so that the public can hold it accountable. were funded by hunters and 95.1% funded by the non-hunting public.”
10,000 Birds
APRIL 19, 2011
In many cases, myself included, the desire manifests itself in less apparent ways than going out and killing something for the trophy wall. I don’t need to kill something to feel the rush of the hunt. However there are places where, with a little human ingenuity, one can see even very rare species with some ease.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2012
Once upon a time, people and especially children felt free to interact with wild birds in any way that would satisfy their curiousity — watching and learning, yes, but also harassing and chasing, collecting eggs and nests, stealing nestlings as “pets”, and killing birds for amateur taxidermy efforts.
10,000 Birds
MAY 8, 2012
If there are human fishing activities then all the better – Marabous will gather in numbers around fishermen’s docks and fish markets, in fact anywhere where fish are cleaned and scraps disposed of, allowing these intelligent birds to obtain a free meal.
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