10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2019
There’s little doubt that these unwilling but plucky exiles have beaten the odds over the last few months, first evading the sights of eager autumn hunters, and then the jaws of hungry foxes and weasels, only to endure the many privations of the harsh and long North American winter eking out their survival in a strange and inhospitable landscape.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2011
Flooding related to Tropical Storm Lee severely damaged the two farms used for raising Ring-necked Pheasants in Pennsylvania earlier this year, limiting the number of birds that will be released for slaughter by hunters (and slaughter is exactly what shooting farm-raised birds is). Never fear, hunters !
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2023
By the way, if you google “Black Kite”, the very first result you get even before the Wikipedia entry on the bird is a company named Black Kite. It is mostly a question of economics – raising just one is troublesome enough given the resources required to feed and educate the chick.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2015
About a month before departure my clients asked me if we were going to the same sites in Ghana as the offerings of another, rather upmarket, birding tour company. Here local hunters had known about the colony and for generations had been harvesting the birds by simply picking the adults off their nests during the breeding season.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2015
How it raised its chicks? Researcher” is a term that should differ greatly from the term “trophy hunter.” Their attitude was “the rules don’t apply to me, I’m a researcher.” Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song? Or how gracefully it flew? Where and how it gathered food? How its diet changed seasonally?
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 24, 2020
The Famous Grouse brand was founded in 1896 in Perth and adopted its now-legendary grouse logo sometime in the early twentieth century, an image first drawn by Phillippa Gloag, the daughter of the company owner. The controversial management of Scotland’s grouse moors for these hunts is discussed in last week’s edition of Birds and Booze.).
10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2022
Barn Swallows are a bit unhappy with their image as restless aerial hunters and would like to gain a more stately and dignified profile. In conclusion, an experience that will put me off buying anything from that company ever. The rather drab-looking female can only look colorful by grabbing some colorful insects.
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