10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

I would love to have a Red-tailed Hawk but with my travel schedule, there’s no possible way I could work with a bird, so I content myself with going out with my friends when they are gracious enough to invite me along like in the above photo when one of my falconer friends let me join him when he was hunting with his goshawk.

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Wisconsin Falcons Owls Hunting 251

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Note in this 2010 video, birders, birdwatching and kayakers are mentioned, not hunters. Visitors are encouraged to wear hunter orange during hunting seasons for safety. The 900 acre Maquam bog is designated as a Research Natural Area and the refuge was designated as an Important Bird Area in partnership with the Audubon Society.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 145

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

The majority of wildcats live today in Africa, and virtually none of them have provided the DNA from which supposed histories of domestication have been constructed by researchers. This almost certainly can be argued to be true just on the basis of logic, because feral Cats are proficient hunters and are entirely out of ecological place.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 256

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Unfortunately for the hunters these were already all extinct, and with the introduction of cats, rats, stoats and the like the only upland game bird, the New Zealand Quail , was fast on the way out too. A PhD student was presenting her research into the population in Westland, the relic population of Grey Duck.

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Species New Zealand Ducks Game 169

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

For birders, it’s the extremely large book, shelved in a place where it can’t crush the field guides, used to research the history of a bird in their area. This content is technical at times, but worth reading for insight into the challenges of conducting a breeding bird survey as well as the material itself.

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 239

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

What is amazing is that each of these three books is very different in content and tone. I also find it strange that Avery nowhere acknowledges the work being done on the Passenger Pigeon by Joel Greenberg, who must have been researching A Feathered River Across the Sky at the same time he was doing his research and journey.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 161