10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2018

It was after that date that many of the great and strange animals of that island went extinct, presumably because of human hunting. If the marks are numerous, located in logical locations, and found in a time-space context where stone tools are otherwise well documented, then fine. We can only assign probabilities.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2014

I was chatting with Gordon about this and we discussed how drones could be a safer way to get photos of birds or document birds for breeding surveys, but he was quick to point out, “You and I already have an idea of what a safe distance would be to test that out with an active bald eagle nest. What if there’s an injury?

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Bald Eagle Mississippi Eagles Ducks 194

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

He continues with images found in illuminated manuscripts such as Catherine of Cleves’s Book of Hours and Frederick II of Germany’s On the Art of Hunting With Birds. Egyptian tomb painting depicting duck hunting in the marshes, from the eBook version of Birds and Us, © 2022, Tim Birkhead and Princeton University Press.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2014

A field team recently discovered a juvenile Manumea (and documented it with photographs). The sighting suggests that for all its struggles with habitat loss and hunting, the species is still managing to reproduce. Image of newly discovered juvenile Manumea by Moe Ulli). The Manumea isn’t the only Samoan bird on the brink, however.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. He describes lark mirrors and other contraptions that were used to entice the birds into traps in detail, and cites the few documented numbers of larks sold in market in the early 19 th century (826, 462 in the Paris market in 1832).

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 212

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2015

To successfully hunt and breed they need clean and clear lakes, and so are sensitive to pollution that affects both them and/or their fishy prey. To give you one example, they have been documented following anglers. Once airborne, loons can reach flying speeds of up to 70 mph ! Unintentional fishing litter can also hurt the birds.

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Critter News

JANUARY 15, 2010

In charging documents filed in King County Superior Court, prosecutors contend Dr. Tohru Shigemura made repeated trips to Washington to hunt bear, taking animals out of season and on tribal lands. Shigemura, prosecutors claim, also amassed a collection of 11 firearms without the appropriate permits.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

More on her hunting techniques and some documented cases of her cacheing food in Part 3 on Friday December 2nd. I’ve seen her dive into their nesting area and emerge with a fledgling. The resulting chase had the blackbirds diving headlong into her tail in a failed attempt to get her to release her prey.

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Gophers San Francisco Blackbirds Hunting 188

10,000 Birds

MAY 5, 2016

A letter requesting information on the permit issued to remove the nest got this response from the city, “In reference to your request for documentation for the removal of an active Osprey nest from the light pole at the soccer field, please be advised that none exist.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2011

From cars I have had great views of Ruffed Grouse , including the encounter that is documented with photographs in this post. At the time I had no idea what had so scared me and it was only in retrospect that I realized that my encounter was with Bonasa umbellus , or what the folks who hunt them typically call “partridge.&#

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 6, 2010

Big Cat Odyssey chronicles their meticulous work over three decades of filming, photographing and documenting the behavior of big cat species in Botswana. Leopards creep from the bushes to hunt and retreat into the trees before falling prey to larger killers. An entire lion pride battles a large buffalo to down the beast.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 20, 2015

Soon after carnivores that could hunt on land evolved, things like ancestral centipedes. The transition from ground-living to flight-capable theropod dinosaurs now probably represents one of the best-documented major evolutionary transitions in life history.

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Rodents Primates Bats Science 187

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

million people were spending nearly $1 billion annually to hunt waterfowl. Waterfowl were then and are now the most prominent and economically important group of migratory birds of the North American continent. By 1985, approximately 3.2 By 1985, interest in waterfowl and other migratory birds had grown in other arenas as well.

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Critter News

AUGUST 6, 2009

The affecting cloak-and-dagger documentary “The Cove,” which documents a brutal dolphin hunt off the Japanese town of Taiji, is putting would-be amusement park visitors in an ethical bind and park owners on the defensive. From MSNBC.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

According to the HBW, sounds and vocal behavior are poorly documented while there is no information on incubation and fledging periods, and the behavior section only has the rather lame statement “General behavior much for others of the genus.” ” The Common Green Magpie fortunately does not look common at all.

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Birds Myanmar China Chicago 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

I was surprised, however, that there is no mention of one of the dark spots in bird feeding history, the highly publicized application of toxic insecticides to Scott’s Miracle-Gro bird seed from 2005 to 2008 and the accompanying falsification of documents to hide it. Scott’s was fined $12.5 Fish and Wildlife Service.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

But in Iraq, and more exactly, Kurdistan and Iraqi Kurdistan, they are supposed to be there (and are regularly hunted and eaten) and the fighting is not supposed to be there. They believe it is the first documented case of birds making detours to avoid destructive weather systems on the basis of infrasound.

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Science Iraq Research Birds 151

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Crawford, in “Introduction to Europe and Diffusion of Domesticated Turkeys from the America (sic)”: A document dated 24 October 1511 was an order from the Bishop of Valencia for each ship from the Islands and Tierra Firme to bring to Seville ten turkeys, half males and half females, for breeding. According to R.D.

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

Latimer refers to his previous two posts where he has "documented the ethical and moral shallowness of the 'animal rights' credo itself, which is based more on an anti-human self hatred, taking the form of a 'moral' squeamishness concerned more with stamping out human 'cruelty,' no matter what the social or economic costs might be.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2015

In particular, birds that hang around with humans who don’t happen to hunt or eat them can become very tame. 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.) Presumably the humans keep away the predators.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The USA’s only truly indigenous parrot was wiped out by a combination of factors, although direct persecution through hunting seems to have been the major contributor. I suspect that way more research and documentation is conducted on indigenous bird species.

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Miami Parrots Research Birds 134

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Some document one of the last views of the species, others are of the last representative of the species. Their names echo musically in my brain (and challenge my typing skills) as I look at photos fuzzy and sharp, and read tales of habitat encroachment, avian disease, and hunting. The photographs span the years 1870 to 2004.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 267

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2018

Think about it–how do you document the behavior of birds that spend years flying (or swimming) and feeding and, apparently, sleeping above or within the deep sea? They walk and toboggan to open water about 50 miles away and then hunt for food until it is time to come home and feed the chick.

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Albatross Penguins Research Breeding 114

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Just think, if no one was there to document this, would it really have happened? Duck MigrationSandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?!Avian Share Your Thoughts « Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Mar 14th, 2011 at 9:20 pm The word “awesome&# is thrown around a lot these days, but this does sound truly awesome.

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica New York 170

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

So, Yellow Rail is included (2 dead birds and one live one are documented for the study area), but Ash-throated Flycatcher, a vagrant found in areas nearby as well as in Queens, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Long Island, but not in the study area, is not. . It’s a very mixed chapter.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Phillipps’ Field Guide (I’ll be using this shortened form of the title) covers 673 avian species, including 59 endemics, and 53 species that have not been documented yet for the area but which may show up in the next few years. Borneo, the authors say, is under-birded. I think we need to do something about that.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2012

Well, for starters, a Snail Kite was hunting the marsh for snails: This kite was easily recognizable as an individual by virtue of the fact that it was missing a couple tail feathers. And what did we see?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2015

But, for those owls who are more well-known and easier to find, we have the delight of seeing them in full-body portraits, perched in their habitat, with mates, as nestlings, hunting and flying, in concealment postures and eating prey.

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North America Owls America Dominican Republic 221

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

There is a document on the web site of the state department of health pertaining to feral cats: The Department of Health does not endorse or oppose the concept of establishing properly managed cat colonies utilizing trap-neuter-return (TNR) techniques. Mole hills! New Jersey is Undecided.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

Holt and his staff, several of which are also ‘characters’ in the book, do hard-core field work, finding owls, owl nests, documenting them and working with concerned and unconcerned organizations to inform public policy decision-making. They are also hunted. Humans were drawing owls 36,000 years ago, as Ackerman points out!

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 210

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

Many birders keep personal birding lists or life lists, documenting the species they have seen throughout their birding experiences. The ABA also plays a role in verifying and documenting rare bird sightings and maintaining birding records. According to the U.S.

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United States North America Birds America 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. We are cautioned to keep the location of the eagle a secret. 2019), and now this book.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 208

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

In addition to habitat loss, extreme weather, invasive species, hunting, and the illegal capture of birds for pet markets are major contributing factors. Each account gives population estimate, population trend, estimated area, endemism level, reasons why the species is threatened, and conservation measures adopted and proposed.

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Cuba Birds United States 2000 230

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Later, Harry Fuller, President of the Klamath Bird Observatory, led us to an open meadow where we saw a pair of Great Gray Owls hunting in a meadow. Larry’s BBOTY – Great Gray Owl. That was also the first and only record for the country until our sighting on April 27th.

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2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 188

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2020

Targeted for children 4 to 8 years old, the book offers a variety of activities aimed at encouraging children to observe, document, and learn about birds, their habitats and their behavior. : 52 Ways to Wonder, Wander, and Explore Birds with Kids the latest. © 2019 Jennifer Ward, © 2019 Alexander Vidal. How many birds do you see?

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

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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10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2011

Assorted Galliformes: One of the bird-human interactions that tends to produce a lot of common names is hunting, and names bestowed by hunters will tend to focus on traits important to hunters: how do you find it, where do you find it, and how does it taste? These are just a handful of the better-documented vernacular names.

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