10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Lead shot injured and killed condors young and old, lead in the carrion they ate, lead in the bullets that hunters shot at them. Coyotes took carrion from young Condors and then killed the weakest ones. Well-researched and footnoted, these sections never feel disconnected from the more personal sections. Endangered. Extinction.

California Condor 169

California Condor Falcons California Birds 169

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. Wuerthner states, “Perhaps the most significant and obvious conflict between the goals of the NAMWC and actual behavior of state agencies has to do with management of predators, particularly bears, cougars, coyotes and wolves.

Wildlife 232

Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 232

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2012

Our small group spent a weekend at the Ferret Research Camp, a cluster of trailers tucked in the middle of a black-tailed prairie dog town and the site, as the name implies, of a black-footed ferret reintroduction program. In the winters the snow lies heavy and researchers travel in and out by small plane.

Wildlife 179

Wildlife Ferrets Montana Prairie Dogs 179

Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2009

of Wildlife Services , which is involved in mainly predator control programs (coyotes are a big target). This amount is considerably less than the number of animals taken by hunters and trappers annually. Environmental groups have called on Obama to get rid of the USDA's Dept. Ranchers oppose the move.

Killing 100

Killing Wildlife Groups Endangered Species 100

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.

Feral Cats 252

Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 252

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

Horned Screamer Michael McDonald is a lot like Wile E Coyote and would like to see a Rufous-vented Ground-cuckoo ! He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. My most-desired Brazilian bird? Easily, it’s the Rufous-vented Ground-cuckoo ( Neomorphus geoffroyi ).

Brazil 197

Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 197