10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Of course there were other Trumpeter Swans out there, but not many. They were heavily hunted as food, and for the feathers. This morning’s news had this: During this year’s open of waterfowl season, the Wildlife Rehabilitation Center admitted more trumpeter swans for bullet wounds than ever before.

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Minnesota Wounded Wildlife Rehabilitation Montana 211

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2019

Of course, the CBC has sexier abbreviation: with the IWC (or iWC?) Several poachers were waiting in ever thickening darkness (Serbian legislation forbids night hunting). The first idea was, it is probably wounded by poachers. words “international water closet” come to mind. My mind, at least. The startled bird was looking at us.

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Geese Serbia Birds Estonia 145

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

Early morning is of course birding prime time and a pre-breakfast stroll around our lodge produced sightings of the lovely Orange-bellied Parrot , which we tracked down to a nesting hole right next to the restaurant.

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Ethiopia Sudan Leopards Game 241

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

It is, of course, arguable that the liberal who is prepared to allow state legislation against cruelty to animals is compromising his liberalism, even though it is typically in liberal societies that we find such legislation. Yet it is legislation that few of us should wish to condemn as lacking in justification. (It

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Cruelty Legislation Kangaroos Animal 40

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Of course, there should be a photo of a vulture here, not of a Crested Serpent-eagle. Older chicks are not only larger and able to withstand larger wounds from other siblings, but also have the ability to monopolize the food they are fed by parents.”

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Los Angeles Birds Woodpeckers Owls 185

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2012

The quills of the “Saqu Ettair” Secretarybirds feed on small lizards, insects, rodents, birds eggs and, of course, snakes. They typically dispatch a snake by stomping on it with their heavily armored legs and feet, accurately directing their rear talons at the skull to effect a swift mortal wound to the head.

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Botswana Eagles Porcupines Hunting 222