10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2017
Strictly speaking, they were always forbidden for driving, but there is a difference between me, driving along the very top of the dyke and collecting scientific data for the first national breeding birds atlas and someone exploring the possibilities of his flashy new 4×4 while driving figures of eight along the embankment slopes.
10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2013
In 1976, Congress changed the official name to the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp , presumably to broaden its appeal to non-hunters. Why promote the stamp to waterfowl hunters when it is mandatory that they buy one to hunt waterfowl? clean water) benefit from the contributions of hunters and anglers.”
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
The Guan had never been seen in the wild after Polish Naturalist Wladyslaw Taczanowski collected one individual in 1876. Nineteenth and early twentieth century naturalists collected birds on long and arduous exploratory expeditions in the New World. A large and striking bird like this would be hard to neglect in a museum collection.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
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.
10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2014
Collectively, these MBCF funds have purchased about 2.7 They don’t take into account the valid concerns non-hunters have about buying the stamp, which fall into two main areas: 1. Many wildlife watchers, birders and photographers don’t want to support a stamp that is so intimately and historically associated with hunting.
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2021
In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. He sat…his crown giving searing shafts of violet as the light caught the feathers at just the right angle. Jonas D’Abronzo.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2018
Dad-level bird jokes are right at home at Christmas Bird Count compilation dinners. Eventually, the name came to be attached to another kind of game hunting device with which we’re more familiar today: life-sized wooden carvings of waterfowl floated on water to fool birds into landing within range of nearby hunters lying in wait.
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