10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Mabamba Swamp is where Corey and I spotted our first Shoebill in the company of an international delegation attending the 2019 African Bird Expo. Of course, we did, soaking in that slate blue beauty long enough to observe a successful hunt and more of its rangy, awkward flight. The mighty Shoebill.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2016

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a Barn Swallow that kept him company in a bird blind while Seaside Sparrows sang and Common Terns hunted in Wildwood, NJ. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2013

Just south of Port of Spain on the west coast of Trinidad, the Caroni Swamp is easily accessible and well serviced by tour companies that will take you out into the mangroves safely and efficiently. But it wasn’t always this way.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

When I reached the levee earlier that morning, I met an elderly hunter from whom I learned that there was an ongoing duck and pheasant hunt, but no one was shooting from, nor towards the embankment, hence I should be safe there. Photographed within Beljarica: six wild boars by Snezana Panjkovic.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2011

Yellow-crowned Night Herons have a presence about them when they are hunting that reminds me of Buddhist monks. I spent forty-five minutes in the company of the Yellow-crowned Night Heron in this post and it spent that time alternating between hunting and preening but it never even made an attempt to catch something.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2012

During the middle ages, a specialised vocabulary became popular in the sport of hunting. Most of the collective nouns would have been used to describe animals that were hunted for sport which is disturbing when one considers a Parliament of Owls for example, a Herd of Wrens or a Stand of Flamingos.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2020

The most recent report was issued in December 2019 and it used data from the 2016 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. There are companies that track traffic on websites, and they are interesting, but seem duplicative of other data. Nonetheless, here are links for the ABA and eBird.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Barker, and Carroll Henderson is a well-researched, copiously illustrated, engaging study of bird feeding practices, personalities, inventions marketing, and companies that developed in the United States from the late 19th century to the present day, with a little bit of Canada, Europe, and South America thrown in. Baicich, Margaret A.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2015

There is one other nature reserve further south, the Obedska bara wetland, managed by the state forestry company. When such a company runs a nature reserve, it is a bit like having a fox to watch over your chickens. But the foresters were not interested in ecotourism; all they care about is to exploit more timber.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Proposal: Creation of a Federal Wildlife Conservation Stamp A birder, wildlife watcher, photographer and non-hunter version of the Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp (aka Federal Duck Stamp). She says, “there’s just a cultural bias against anything related to hunting.”

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 13, 2012

His good company was surpassed only by his keen eye that picked out a Mangrove Cuckoo lifer for me and a roosting Common Nighthawk. My experience of Common Nighthawks had previously been at dusk as they begin hunting for the night.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2011

It soared over the boardwalk, scoping out the overflowing garbage cans in the company of the usual Laughing Gulls , and then landed on a pole to scan the beach-goers (not to mention the crowd of sweaty birders who promptly arrived.) My gentleman friend was not particularly impressed by the Gray-hooded Gull.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2014

It included a video that a production company took with a drone in our park’s corridor. Say a duck hunter knows that the closed pools nearby has ducks and it’s dead in the pool where they are hunting. They call their friend to check the ducks with a drone and the ducks get flushed and go to the hunting pond?

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Critter News

MARCH 22, 2009

Activists accused Norwegian companies of encouraging the killing because seal hunting was no longer allowed in their own country. This decision was made largely thanks to public environmental organisations which took an active position on this issue.”

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

The best moments are when the film simply lets the images do the work and we watch the eagles soar, hunt, and take care of their nest and their totally adorable eaglet, composer David Majzlin’s original music echoing our emotions of wonder. Preventing Philippine Eagle hunting: what are we missing? Tampos, G., & Salvador, D.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

It is fascinating to watch them hunt in these fast-moving streams and interesting to note that they do not submerge themselves as the other northern dipper species, preferring instead to keep their heads above water most of the time. In short these are badass birds and they should be inducted in the Avian Hall of Fame immediately.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2013

The Director of the Sudanese Company for Electricity Transmission has promised to solve the problem by constructing the new, insulated power line that will run parallel to the existing one. Neighbouring (FYRO) Macedonia nowadays has about 20 pairs, while two decades ago they had 135! Reasons for this situation are numerous.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

Every year, $900 million in royalties paid by energy companies drilling for oil and gas on the Outer Continental Shelf (OCS) are put into this fund. I am extremely disappointed that, despite overwhelming bipartisan support, Congress has allowed this innovative and effective program to expire.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2012

Like several of my favorite NWRs, this one was established as a haven for migratory birds, most notably waterfowl, during the bad old days when uncontrolled hunting and habitat loss had put the future of even species we now think of as common in doubt. As a result, early migration season is an excellent time to visit.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Despite that, a Quebec-based seal fur company has begun championing Pibarot's hypothesis, seeing the research as a buoy for Canada's beleaguered seal harvest.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2014

There is a breeding pair of White-tailed Eagles at the Veliko Ratno Island and they can be seen year-round, but the best chances are in winter, when they hunt ducks around the island. In March and November, Common Cranes are a possibility. From late April, carry an insect repellent with you. Bus: 95, 96 & 104. eBird list.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2012

It is not every day that a birder gets to play with a prototype scope made by one of the premiere optics companies in the world. Fortunately, cooler heads (and the threat of being hunted down by angry Austrians) prevailed and instead I just looked at Great Crested Grebes , Black-crowned Night-Herons , Eurasian Coots , and other birds.

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Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2008

They are also endangered by a loss of habitat, as energy companies encroach on more and more of their territory for oil and gas operations. But most important, they are beginning to starve, because the sea ice they depend on for hunting seals, their main food, is melting at a very rapid rate because of global warming.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

Wolves, for example–the probable ancestors of dogs–live in packs that hunt together and have a complex hierarchy. See TIME’s video “ The March of TIME: Hunting Dog Field Trials.&#. Ancestors of dogs could cooperate to hunt, but the cooperation had limits.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

They are also hunted. Here is a favorite paragraph from a field trip to a forested mountain north of Charlo, Montana in the company of an ORI team: This is beautiful Great Gray territory. They roost and hunt, at night (mostly) when we can’t see them.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Though most of the major oil companies are environmentally conscientious, seasonal disturbances to wildlife can occur with certain oil and gas operations. Indeed, there have been 14 spills in the last 5 years, all from pipes owned by a single company, Jetta Operating Company. But when I visited, the birds didn’t seem to mind.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2022

Little Egrets [below] were hunting close by and there was a sole Intermediate Egret at the other end of the swamp. Keeping them company was a large group of Silver Gull – the only gull generally recorded. A site with poor access but occasionally interesting birds. Mistletoebirds, a type of Flowerpecker, were vocal.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2024

So, like a football stadium named after an insurance company, the broadbill ended up bearing a name celebrating a sponsor. eBird gives the Indigo Flycatcher a very positive review, calling it a “beautiful little gem of a flycatcher” Apparently, Indigo Flycatchers mainly hunt in groups, as described here.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2013

Little Brown and Company, March 2013. Little Brown and Company, March 2013. Every one of these field guides is excellent. It really is all a matter of what type of descriptive avian information works for you when you are identifying a bird. The New Stokes Field Guide to Birds, Eastern Region by Donald & Lillian Stokes.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2022

Raptors were in no short supply, and in addition to a Savanna Hawk , Grey-lined Hawk , and an extremely brief view of a Double-toothed Kite as it careened over the canopy later on, we saw a couple Broad-winged Hawks characteristically hunting from a low perch. Broad-winged Hawk. Slowly, we continued. Up, then down. Navigating potholes.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

If you ever wonder why so many American birders leaven their love of nature with a little self-loathing, look no further than the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation , which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conducts every five years or so. It’s that damnable Duck Stamp.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2019

While the hunting of game with trained birds of prey can be a controversial topic among birders , falconry was a valuable early source of information on birds, and its history, culture, and imagery continue to fascinate bird lovers, as we shall see.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2016

This species’ population is suspected to have decreased rapidly, owing to levels of hunting on the staging and wintering grounds, and habitat deterioration (largely as a result of land cultivation). In the Western Palearctic at least 20-30% of the population are shot each year, often accidentally during hunting of other species.”

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Hannah's Blog

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

Great Frigatebirds engage in “unihemispheric sleep” on hunting trips of six to ten days, never landing, sleeping less than an hour in a 24-hour cycle, often keeping one-half of their brain awake while the other slept. birding tour company. Pause while we all try to imagine what our lives would be like if we could do that.)

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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.).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Yet, think a bit about what our world would be like if the Passenger Pigeon still existed.

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