10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2022
Thank you, goddess of birding luck and text group people).* The book is richly illustrated with contributions from a group of birders/photographers who were fortunate to see and document many of the vagrants covered. internal compasses tied to the earth’s magnetic fields? other compass senses like the stars?–and
Critter News
MARCH 22, 2009
Maybe Canada can learn something from the former KGB agent and avid hunter about compassion. Conservation groups have staged protests in 20 Russian cities this week, demanding an end to the slaughter. The ministry said: “This is a serious step forward to protect Russia’s biological diversity.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 11, 2011
He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. YourBirdOasis.com Mar 11th, 2011 at 11:00 pm Motmots are totally cool group of birds! OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more!
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 4, 2014
I reduced all lines and edges to straights and curves (that’s all there are) and began to render with mechanical drawing instruments¬ ruling pen, compass, French curve, T-square, triangle. The Eskimo Curlew “ran the gauntlet of a hunter army, which stalked him from state to state to provision meat counters by the wagonload.”
10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Giving a few hundred hunters something else to shoot, in my opinion, cannot be worth the blowback from tens of thousands of people who are willing to travel and spend just to watch the birds fly over. Isn’t that neat?
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2011
So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? Do all hunters realize that? It gives one to wonder why this designation was made.
10,000 Birds
MAY 19, 2011
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 It turns out that humans without compasses make no use of magnetic fields.) Consider the implications.
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