10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2023
The book is a grab-bag of facts about the ten birds, mostly culled from other works. A prime example is the 1958 Chinese campaign to eliminate sparrows, considered pests because they fed on grain. Hundreds of millions of sparrows were killed, almost to the point of extinction.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2013
In 1898, Hermon Bumpus published a paper about change in the morphology in a population of House Sparrows that he proposed was an example of Darwinian Natural Selection in action. There are few areas of the world where they have been introduced and not survived (Greenland and Cape Verde are examples of this bird’s local demise).
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Yet Birkhead credits British ornithologist Edmund Selous with sparking the world’s interest in watching rather than killing birds, despite the fact that Bailey’s “interest in bird-watching predates his,” as he admits in a footnote (p. The difference seems to be that Selous had previously killed birds and she had not.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2015
The killing of Cecil was equated with murder, a moral crime rather than a symptom of a ecological problem. Take an example, Tembe Elephant Park in South Africa. And culls of Nyala have been proposed. But the story wasn’t really one about conservation. We can’t afford just to let nature be nature any more.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2023
For example , fallen figs do not seem to mind catching a ride with Oriental Pied Hornbills. The latter is even captured in a somewhat gruesome video , in which the hornbill plucks a caged bird out of its cage and kills and eats it. At 15h59, the female picked up the fourth chick and killed it by repeatedly crushing it with her beak.
10,000 Birds
JULY 24, 2012
What’s even more frustrating is when animal rights people learn of plans to cull nonnative species. For example, when the U.S. Yes, of course it is too bad that so many animals (most often rats, mice and rabbits) have to be killed. Among biologists and birders alike, these programs are usually met with great praise.
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