10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. Although Prince Edward Island and Marion are close enough, only 21 km apart, Prince Edward is free of invasives, besides four plant species, so offers a great comparison for success.

South Africa 264

South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

The Common Pochard is listed as Vulnerable – not because it is particularly rare, but because of the rapid decline in its numbers (a decline of 50% within 10 years means a species is listed as Vulnerable – and a 50% loss in 10 years sounds quite dramatic and frightening indeed). Of course, Little Egrets like to eat fish.

Raccoons 245

Raccoons Birds Oregon China 245

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

This has benefited both the waterfowl hunters and everyone else who likes ducks and their kin. Eventually, the pigeons, as it were, may come home to roost and the waterfowl and other wildlife, as well as hunters and bird watchers, will be sitting ducks.

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Ducks Hunters Hunting Wildlife 236

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

In the marshes of the estancia , he discovers what he comes to believe is a new species of rail – one of the “accidentals” of the title. Two days after September 11, 2001 (of course) on a day in the mountains when she sees, for the first time in her life, Bald Eagles (of course) Alejandra becomes pregnant. Accidentals.

Uruguay 159

Uruguay 2001 Bald Eagle Science 159

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

This is also why you very rarely find a photo of a giraffe on top of one of these posts – the other reason of course being that a giraffe photo would be relatively pointless in a birding blog. Barn Swallows are a bit unhappy with their image as restless aerial hunters and would like to gain a more stately and dignified profile.

Singapore 147

Singapore Birds Mountain Goats Giraffes 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2016

It’s natural to encounter resistance which, of course, we have. They want, especially, to distinguish their role as non-hunting conservationists, without in any way competing or detracting from the existing heritage — a way to work in confluence, while also generating the community passions that the Duck Stamp does for hunters.

Wildlife 189

Wildlife San Francisco Legislation Ducks 189

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.

North America 113

North America Vermont America Farming 113

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Of course, the first step is to define what is a ‘vagrant bird,’ a discussion I really appreciated since I’ve noticed that we (as in birders in general) tend to bandy the term about interchangeably with ‘accidental,’ ‘exotic,’ ‘scarce migrant,’ and ‘MEGA MEGA.’

Birds 264

Birds Compassion Eagles Science 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Walking along a dirt track next to a prairie, my friend and I were on the look-out for different sparrow species when a large bird suddenly darted into the clearing. Of course, only thirty minutes later I saw my second roadrunner, this time standing on a lawn adjacent to a busy street!

New Mexico 102

New Mexico Mexico Coyotes Rattlesnake 102

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2011

Gray Jays have long been more than willing to scarf down the offal that remains when hunters process a carcass so it is little wonder that they have adapted their foraging habits to include whatever scraps picnickers are willing to share. The bold gray-and-white birds know what humans are good for and that is as a source of food!

Washington 173

Washington Wisconsin Michigan Minnesota 173

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. Elephant The big – two species of elephant are now recognized as occuring in Africa, the smaller and more secretive Forest Elephant and the larger, more familiar African or Bush Elephant.

Buffalo 226

Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 226

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

When they called our state agency, they were told to “let nature take its course.” A personal encounter with a wild species changes one’s perspective. As our population grows, so do the challenges we create for native avian species that coexist with us. Will the population of the species be affected?

Wildlife Rehabilitation 190

Wildlife Rehabilitation Bald Eagle Rescue Wildlife 190

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

About 15 million birds are killed annually by hunters, and of course this is distributed among a very small number of species. The difference is, if you pick 1 billion, the dead birds will be randomly distributed among the most common 10 species. Also, the comparison with cats is not particularly relevant.

Killing 274

Killing Cats Fish Birds 274

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

I get that you’re really angry, I mean, he was a popular lion and yes, his cute widdle cubs will probably die to, but I can’t help feeling you’ve kind of missed the point a bit, and well, ending all hunting in Africa will not solve much and maybe make things worse and… No, no, I’m not a hunter. To a point.

Lions 231

Lions Hunting Sierra Leone Buffalo 231

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2014

Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. After taking an ornithology course last year, he was hooked and spends most of his free time birding or reading birding blogs. Of course, birding was on the itinerary!

Finland 182

Finland Estonia Birds Europe 182

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2017

Unless those non-birding folks happen to be duck hunters or love to go fishing, they tend to stay away from the marshes, the riparian zones, the bottom lands. Of course not, it’s rainforest! This area is the only place where this species can be seen in Costa Rica. See the birds? This one is an Anhinga.

Costa Rica 100

Costa Rica Birds Ducks Pelicans 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. After taking an ornithology course last year, he was hooked and spends most of his free time birding or reading birding blogs. Of course, birding was on the itinerary! Common Chaffinch.

Russia 150

Russia Iceland Birds Europe 150

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

” Most shrugged and said very few US falconers fly owls because they’re slow and some species you can only hunt at night, that wouldn’t be much fun to watch. All apprentice falconers are allowed only 1 of 2 species: American Kestrel or Red-tailed Hawk. Of course I can’t speak for every falconer out there.

Wisconsin 257

Wisconsin Falcons Owls Hunting 257

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2013

Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. After taking an ornithology course last year, he was hooked and spends most of his free time birding or reading birding blogs. Of course, birding was on the itinerary! Total Species: 37.

Iceland 209

Iceland Puffins Europe Birds 209

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2020

A silhouetted Golden Eagle in flight appears on all current bottlings by Ardmore, and over the years, the same species has occasionally appeared on various products by Scottish distilleries like Glenfarclas and Mortlach.

Eagles 171

Eagles Lions Hunting Lamb 171

Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

Whenever the media report that someone has killed "an endangered animal" or "an endangered species," they too confuse an individual with a species. Hunters kill members of endangered species. Conversely, animals who are personally safe are not endangered, even if they belong to an endangered species (14).

Speciesism 100

Speciesism Endangered Species Vivisection Killing 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

Dirt hawking is a form of falconry that involves hunting rabbits and other small game with Harris Hawks (other hawk species also qualify). One of the primary reasons that these hawks make such excellent falconry birds is because they are one of only two raptor species (the other is the Galapagos Hawk ) that hunt cooperatively.

League Against Cruel Sports 270

League Against Cruel Sports Rabbits Falcons Hunting 270

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

This would be a night drive, cold, dark, uncomfortable seats, loud engine in the giant 26-seater truck, scanning the brush and the roadside with three or four strong spotlights wrangled by volunteers among the nature-loving tourists, and of course, the headlights of the truck. And, of course, something interesting came along.

Feral Cats 257

Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 257

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

Even in the tropics there are few birds that excel some of our own in elegance and beauty of plumage and we have an unusually large number of species considering the smallness of the area they inhabit. ” (Woodward brothers, “Natal Birds”, 1899) The mighty Drakensberg Mountains run along the western boundary of KwaZulu-Natal province.

Mozambique 206

Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 206

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Having never been to Brazil I can’t possibly speak as an expert in terms of what birds are covered or how well species that I have never seen are depicted. The species accounts are written by Robert Ridgely, one of the premiere neotropical ornithologists, and a veteran at writing excellent field guides. Talk about a win-win!

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Birds 224

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

One study found that birds living in Botswana had elevated levels of lead in their bloodstreams during hunting season, presumably coming from lead bullets used on animals killed by hunters. According to the Eponym Dictionary of Birds (Helm, 2014), “James Sligo Jameson (1856–1888) was an Irish hunter, explorer, and naturalist.

Elephants 147

Elephants Birds Congo Africa 147

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Of course, by the time I get to them just about every other big lister in the state has seen them two or three times. That’s a skill as much as recognizing vagrant peeps or putting a name to non-vocalizing Empids, and one under-rated by some would-be vagrant hunters. And don’t forget to keep your birding eyes open.

North Carolina 154

North Carolina Sparrows 2008 Hunters 154

Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

“Animal science” – distinct from zoology, the science of Earth’s millions of animal species – is what LGUs call meat-industry courses, including slaughtering animals, making ice cream, the full range of meat-linked endeavor. But no LGU has yet put its meat-industry courses on the course of ultimate extinction.

Meat Industry 100

Meat Industry Industry Meat Responsible Policies 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

The core of the book are the Species Accounts, 190 accounts by 52 authors, some names that readers will easily recognize, others birders and ornithologists well-known in Pennsylvania. You can see the Species Account for Henslow’s Sparrow above, in the banner photo. The second page is the map page. Brauning and Andrew M.

Pennsylvania 249

Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 249

Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

than with any genuine concern for species diversity or even animal welfare." Again, they just want to prevent the "cruel" hunters from killing Bambi's mother. First of all, does he really believe that piffle? Animal activists don't care about the health or welfare of deer herds? What on earth would even give him that idea?

Animal Rights 100

Animal Rights Rights Broiler Chicken Animal 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2021

The males can compete with Painted Buntings for their neon colors, and the females, like those of that related species, have their own subtle beauty. (It’s It is always a species they have dreamed of seeing for years.). Of course, plenty of non-endemics also turned up to have their picture taken.

Woodpeckers 249

Woodpeckers Hunters Falcons Breeding 249

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2011

Of course not! Of course, that was the easiest of the three because though the bird in the image is captive, a bird that was injured and can’t be returned to the wild, Bald Eagles do occur regularly and naturally in Queens.

Bald Eagle 113

Bald Eagle Zoos 2011 Parrots 113

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2022

Of course, it should include an offer to join the ABA, perhaps at a discounted rate. Of course, anything that resonates with more birders is good, as the ABA needs additional members to address its financial problems. Such articles are fine, of course, but not at the expense of all content for beginning and intermediate birders.

Advocacy 242

Advocacy Wildlife Portland Science 242

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. Hummingbird species, on the other hand, number in the hundreds. Jonas D’Abronzo.

Costa Rica 264

Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2014

Contest killing – where individuals or teams gun down as many of a single species as they can within a specific time period, with prizes going to the winner(s) – is legal all over the country. The hunters who do not eat their crows) “are providing a smorgasbord for other wildlife!”

Killing 260

Killing Hunting Hunters New York 260

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

Of course, the study does not purport to rank refuges based on visitation-based economic output, as that is just one metric. Critically, NWRs preserve habitat and wildlife, often for endangered species. Unlike most of the other units in the study, however, most visits were from hunters.). Estimated to generate over 3.5

Wildlife 269

Wildlife Maryland San Francisco Minnesota 269

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? It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death.

2011 244

2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 244