10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Their name, of course, comes from the fact that they grow a protective layer of feather down their legs for insulation. And maybe we should be intimidated, because when it comes to surviving the cold, these birds are tough. Tell them “winter is coming” and they’ll shrug and prepare to feast on your weak, summer-fed corpse.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 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. During the hunt, Mary’s horse lost its footing, throwing her from the saddle into a ditch.

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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.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2019

Unlike several other gamebird species commonly raised and released for hunting in North America, the Northern Bobwhite ( Collinus virginianus ) is, of course, a native of the continent, though its natural range lies mostly in the southeastern quarter of the continent, and south into Mexico and the Caribbean.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

There were reasons to think that the White-winged Guan had been extirpated by over-hunting. Hunting pressure in a heavily populated region (even for Nineteenth Century standards) and easy access were likely to result in the extirpation of the Guan in the regions surrounding the site of collection. … Extinction is forever.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2012

Let’s take the issues raised in the sign above one by one and figure out how serious each issue is. The behavior could be especially disastrous for waterfowl, which are hunted by people, but less so for passerines, or perching birds, which regularly come into people’s bird feeders. If so, please share it in the comments.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2016

The high point of scouting was of course seeing a bunch of birds, something guaranteed at Eilat, especially during March. Raising $67,000 plus for conservation! : The real reason for the Champions of the Flyway Bird Race is to raise money for desperately needed conservation efforts in the Mediterranean.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

This non-technical book is a development from a series of lectures, tried and tested in numerous adult education courses given to non-specialists. At some stage, a salmon-hunting bear at a shingle beach came too close, mere 9 steps.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2014

Most people oppose large-scale, indiscriminate, hunting of birds but it still happens all over the world. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. But non-natives, and seriously damaging ones, are still constantly being introduced around the world.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

It is these, of course, that drew the attention of the Bronze Age people and their unusual ibis-based cultural fascination with the bird. There are only a few birds for whom their names have changed little since the dawn of the written alphabet itself, but ibis, named by the Greeks a few thousand years before, is one of them.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. Done properly, a young hawk is curtailed in a growing compulsion to fly greater distances and hunt for herself by a process sometimes called “manning.”

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

However, if we accept that some old reports were this species and not the very similar and easily confused Bat Falcon , it’s pretty likely that a few Orange-breasteds did hunt for Band-tailed Pigeons , parakeets, parrots, and other birds over the canopy of rainforests at the base of the Costa Rican mountains. What a horror!

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Costa Rica Species Panama Birds 228

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

As climates are transformed, habitats plundered, and nonnative fauna carried to virgin hunting grounds, extinction rates are increasing. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. Filling the Gap Left By DeBooy’s Rail. What a horror!

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Thus, the cattle we raise for meat and dairy are sometimes called Bos taurus while the extinct wild form is always called Bos primigenius. Some time after the Spanish encounter with the Turkey, birds were brought back to Europe where they were raised and became an important source of food and fancy feathers.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

And of course you’ll be keen to keep an eye open for Mantell’s Moa , one of ten species you should see on your tour. Of course, excited as you will be by these magnificent ratites, we have other targets here. This species, the smallest, is endemic to North Island and should be fairly common in the wet lowland forests.

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Animal Person

MAY 30, 2009

Of course, Lobo is missing the point entirely. Often confused with American Humane Association, they raise tens of millions, not to ‘save the animals’ as most people assume but to further the causes of vegetarianism and ending animal agriculture." The HSUS isn't even anti-hunting ! And of course what we do is about the issues.

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

The 10-year-old Boa was pregnant and had been raised by McAdam since it was a baby. Many of these changes (loss of legs, different type of locomotion, highly modified skull, loss of eyelids, ambush predator hunting strategy) have caused snakes to appear less "anthropomorphic" than lizards or turtles for example.

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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.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 256

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 8, 2012

I’ve had a couple of great encounters with this species hunting lizards and frogs in the more open woodland areas, and of course it’s evocative call is a common sound anywhere there are enough trees.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 5, 2011

There were a few exceptions of course, a few easily recognised gulls. Some gulls are particularly good at hunting the Ashy Storm-petrel, a species which also has its stronghold on this island. An idle mob finding itself assemble for any cause and cheated of its first object, proceeds to do mischief to the favorite weaklings.”

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2016

This species, one of the heaviest birds able to fly, was once common through most of southern and central Europe and all the way to Mongolia, but was driven to extinction by hunting and changes in agricultural practises in most of its European range during the 19th and early 20th century.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Not only were they a common bird, they were a common bird nearshore; indigenous peoples hunted them up and down the coast. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. Now if only this drought will come to an end… … Extinction is forever.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 215

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2019

John James Audubon first heard the sparrow in July, 1944, on a buffalo hunt in North Dakota. It has always been a difficult bird to find, even when abundant. ” [[link]. This was the ultimate birding party, with non-stop high fives, craning necks, and lenses–lots of lenses, all sizes.

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

It's too bad that Latimer's presentation is so obnoxious, as even when he raises what might be valid points, he makes you want to disagree with him.

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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. Ones that came up to the scientists did.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2011

I got out of the car, climbed a small hill where the shooting benches were and realized I was looking at a fabulous patch of habitat for a great gray owl to hunt. The day shift, hunting the meadow. Of course I had no bug spray. I raised a bottle of beer in its honor, then headed for my hotel, satisfied that the day was mine.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

But the wrongness and vileness of factory farming does not show that eating meat is morally wrong, because it is theoretically possible to raise animals outdoors in idyllic settings, to give them wonderful, enjoyable, rich lives, and then after 6 months to a year of such blissful existence, to kill them entirely painlessly.

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