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The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove

10,000 Birds

It’s a good thing too, because it is the leading gamebird in North America in terms of total harvest and the widespread distribution of hunting effort. Approximately one million hunters annually harvest more than 20 million Mourning Doves , which exceeds the annual harvest of all other migratory game birds combined 3.

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Do birds avoid predators because of culture?

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In particular, birds that hang around with humans who don’t happen to hunt or eat them can become very tame. My research in the Congo supports this idea. Part of that research was to document human avoidance by ground mammals, and that was stark and apparent. I suspect social learning, well documented in birds.)

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan

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It seems that this is another species for which the standard phrase of scientists anywhere, “more research needed”, applies. The Latin name “frontalis” (meaning, as you can guess, something like “frontal”) referring to the distinct black forehead makes more sense.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. Jonathan Elphick and John Fanshawe provided “specialist research” and support.” We politically worship them, but at the same time we’ve severely decreased the numbers of many species by hunting and habitat loss.

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Lost Animals: Extinction and the Photographic Record: A Book Review

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And so, Fuller embarked on a new initiative—locating and researching photographs of lost birds and, expanding his scope, of mammals. Some document one of the last views of the species, others are of the last representative of the species. more than there really was to see!” (p. The photographs span the years 1870 to 2004.

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Thought To Be Extinct For 100 Years

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Some remained stored for decades before a researcher would pick them up and inquired about these poorly documented specimens. There were reasons to think that the White-winged Guan had been extirpated by over-hunting. Some of these specimens had labels with basic information and were stored for further work at a later time.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

The point is that even hunters seem to think that they need a reason to justify killing these animals. You don't find many hunters who candidly and unapologetically say: "I hunt because I like to kill. Hunting wouldn't be the "noble," "manly" "sport" that it is, if these were the reasons for doing it.