10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2017

I asked Virginia Guhin, Education Programs Coordinator of the Elkhorn Slough National Estuarine Research Reserve (ES NERR). I had never seen this species of kite before, but Guhin explained that they often hunted in the natural acres of the reserve. “What’s that?” Life-bird for me! Historic buildings at Elkhorn Slough.

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Research Birds Virginia Protection 101

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2014

I am not anti-hunting. The “Crow Down” is a “hunting contest” where both adults and children slaughter as many crows as they possibly can in two days. Obviously killing contests have nothing to do with traditional hunting, and “animal abuse” is normally used when describing domestic animals.

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Killing Slaughter Slaughtered Animal Abuse 272

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2016

To insure that those places continue to exist, birders should lead the way on education and advocacy regarding the Refuge System. But when taken as a whole, the impact of the Refuge System is truly profound, supporting population-level numbers of numerous bird species. The reason is twofold, size and mission.

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Wildlife Grizzly Bear Puerto Rico United States 189

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

” Most shrugged and said very few US falconers fly owls because they’re slow and some species you can only hunt at night, that wouldn’t be much fun to watch. Then I started volunteering at The Raptor Center to give educational programs with live birds of prey and my trainer was a master falconer.

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Wisconsin Falcons Owls Hunting 241

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

Colorful bills and heads seem quite popular among Letaba’s bird species – see the African Jacana (blue and black) … … the Striated Heron (yellow and blue) … … and the Yellow-billed Stork (yellow and red). The Latin species name vermiculatus (worm-like) refers to the markings on the upperparts.

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Zimbabwe Birds South Africa Benin 147

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Without adequate funding, habitats are not restored, invasive species are left unchecked, poaching and other illegal activities occur and our nation’s wildlife suffers 1. She says, “there’s just a cultural bias against anything related to hunting.”

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2014

It is also known for the 500 exotic species of animals and plants that now call the Sunshine State home. Exotic species are animals that did not historically occur in Florida. One such species is the familiar mallard (Anas platyrhynchos). The New Zealand Grey Duck is nearly extinct as species.

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Florida Ducks New Zealand Feral 204

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

The birds interacted in the air several times and watching their behavior with each other and while they were hunting was educational and enjoyable. Cloud’s Lakefront Park on East Lake Tohopekaliga, was fruitful and I got to watch two different Snail Kites looking for snails. Snail Kites are awesome!

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Lifestyle Meat Wildlife Florida 208

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

The refuge is a popular birding location and approximately 230 species have been observed by about 1,400 birders who have submitted nearly 8,000 checklists. Hunting is also prohibited in this area of the refuge. The front of this building is the restrooms and the back is a covered education/picnic area.

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Portland Oregon Laws Experience 190

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2013

I worked with education owls for over ten years, from Great Horned Owls to Saw-whet Owls (above bird). It’s a small education Northern White-faced Owl that completely changes shape as zoo keepers bring by other types of owls that would be a predator for that species. It helps if you can understand owl behavior.

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Owls Barn Owls Agenda Zoos 262

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

The Friendship Association is a nonprofit that encourages and sponsors educational and cultural connections between the U.S. Navarro’s exceptional drawings illustrate the species accounts. Forty-eight species. and Cuba.). Design and layout are by Pepe Nieto; James W. There is even room for notes.

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Cuba Birds United States 2000 229

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 17, 2011

Cheetahs are regulated by the Species Survival Plan (SSP), which tracks a species’ genetic lines in zoos and animal parks around the world and makes recommendations as to where specific animals should be placed for successful breeding opportunities. Only approximately 12,400 cheetahs remain in the wild.

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Jacksonville White Rhinos Zoos Rhinos 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

This non-technical book is a development from a series of lectures, tried and tested in numerous adult education courses given to non-specialists. At some stage, a salmon-hunting bear at a shingle beach came too close, mere 9 steps. Cactus finch, Geospiza species. Galapagos cactus finch, Geospiza species.

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Animal Bears Stray Dog Blackbirds 115

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2020

The most recent report was issued in December 2019 and it used data from the 2016 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. Others might require a life list or the ability to identify a specific number of species, or some other criteria.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Did I dare dip my toe into this catalog of tantalizing species? 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. Now, I’m not so sure.

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Brunei Birds Asia China 174

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The Trumpeter Swans above, for example, winter in Washington’s Skagit Valley, where Hashimoto “attempted to capture the low light and soft grays of winter,” while also rejoicing in this conservation success story–in the early 1960’s the swan numbers in the Valley were down to 15 due to hunting, they now number 11,000.

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Birds Eggs Laws Woodpeckers 148

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. Finally, the Similan Islands are perhaps one of the most beautiful islands in the world and form a stunning backdrop to this species, one of the loveliest pigeons in the world.

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2014 Costa Rica South Africa Birds 187

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

In total, there are eight species of hornbills in Borneo – the best place to see them seems to be the Kinabatagan River area (also known as Sukau). Another item they feed on is hunting edible bird nest swiftlets, which are quite common in edible swiftlet houses in Sabah, Malaysia ( source ).

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Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 126

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

When you throw the feral Cat in there, not only do they push out the indigenous wild carnivores, but they are hunting animals that are not quite adapted to avoiding them as well as they may be to avoiding other animals. Also, feral Cats on islands seem to be a serious problem, causing the extirpation of some indigenous species.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 254

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

” Writing about owls means writing about roughly 250 species (I counted 245 on the 2022 Clements spreadsheet, but I might have missed a few, and we all know that each classification system is different). These are behaviors that are most likely to vary across species and topics that make for compelling stories.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 209

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The ordinance requires caretakers to “educate” people in their neighborhoods. … Matthew Anderson [of Audubon] said proponents of colonies are putting the interests of one invasive species — cats — over the hundreds of other native ones that are their prey.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 207

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2023

Birders often venture into various habitats, such as forests, wetlands, grasslands, or coastal areas, to encounter different bird species. The primary objective of birding is to identify bird species based on their physical characteristics, behavior, and vocalizations.

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United States North America Birds America 147

Animal Ethics

AUGUST 19, 2007

It is an animated website aimed at educating and inspiring children about endangered species, and all of our characters actually exist in a real-life camp in Tanzania which protects black rhino and wild African hunting dogs. whilst employing a local workforce and improving school and water supplies for surrounding villages.

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Rhinos Tanzania Endangered Species Protection 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2011

The adults of most species will still care for the chicks no matter how much you touch them. A female red-tail may leave a nest to hunt for her two chicks and return to feed a rabbit to three chicks without noting an increase in the number of chicks a rehabber has placed there. Do not worry about touching the baby birds.

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Birds Fox Raised Ducks 265

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2020

Each activity builds on these basics–observation, documentation and action–introducing concepts like migration, nesting, and conservation, and also teaching specific ways bird behavior may be different for different species. Like I Love Birds! Like I Love Birds!, © 2014, 2019, Brooklyn botanic Garden, Inc.

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Los Angeles 2019 Birds 2014 264

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. wrote a lengthy article in Outside magazine (Jan. 2019), and now this book.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 208

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

Great Frigatebirds engage in “unihemispheric sleep” on hunting trips of six to ten days, never landing, sleeping less than an hour in a 24-hour cycle, often keeping one-half of their brain awake while the other slept. Still–it’s a lot of material to take in.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 250

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

The story of the White-winged Guan , in some ways resembles the re-discovery of some species thought to be extinct. The decades of storage in a museum came after it was regarded as an extinct species. There were reasons to think that the White-winged Guan had been extirpated by over-hunting. The Guan was declared extinct.

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Collecting Peru Neglecting Hunting 268

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death. With the proposed hunting seasons on sandhill cranes being discussed in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin, we must not forget the whooping crane, which travels and winters in the big sandhill crane flocks. Speculation is useless in acts of vandalism.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 242

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2011

But, as with so many other species, these birds have been left to do their own whistle blowing. West Indian Whistling Ducks are the largest of the eight different whistling duck species. The whistling duck call carries with it the crimes of big business, the failures of governments and the ignorance of irresponsible hunters.

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Antigua and Barbuda Puerto Rico Dominican Republic Jamaica 220

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2022

But as far as I can tell, nobody advocates for birders, so lands are opened to hunting and fishing , but not birding, photography, and other non-consumptive uses. Members will likely also have suggestions for advocacy.

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Advocacy Wildlife Portland Science 210

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2020

The emphasis is on everyday birds seen in North America, though some of the more exotic and local species are thrown in for the color and romance of it all–Atlantic Puffin, Roseate Spoonbill, the poor extinct Heath Hen. It also utilizes an entertaining educational format, bursting with energy and fun.

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2020 Birds Groups North America 264

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 14, 2015

The species was in the news because some scientists had finally managed (or bothered – it’s much the same thing) to locate the population high in the mountains of the Solomon Islands, and catch and photograph one. Unsurprisingly the ones that most stick in the mind were the lost species. Box after box of egg. Bush Wrens.

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Collecting Solomon Islands New Zealand Fiji 219

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago covers 1,417 species, 601 endemics, 98 vagrants, 8 introduced and 18 undescribed species. Rheindt, gives an in-depth education on the geographic history and current state of the region. Species Accounts. Co-author Frank E. Introduction.

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Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 125

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Located along the Atlantic Flyway, 280 avian species live or migrate through the Meadowlands, including “almost half of the 77 birds on New Jersey’s list of birds that are endangered, threatened or of special concern.” There are, at least 2 species, thank goodness. The Index is adequate, listing species and names.

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New Jersey Legislation Mammals Pigs 147

Animal Person

OCTOBER 26, 2009

I say "if you know someone" because this isn't a book I'd recommend to vegans for their vegan education efforts. Some have tried to resolve this gap by hunting or butchering an animal themselves, as if those experiences might somehow legitimize the endeavor of eating animals. Not great, but good. He never says he is.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Animal Vegan 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Nineteen days later we had racked up an amazing list of 436 species, including some of Africa’s least known birds such as Congo Serpent Eagle , Yellow-footed Honeyguide , Tessmann’s Flycatcher , Yellow-bearded Greenbul , Black-collared Lovebird and much besides. We also knew we had discovered Africa’s next hot birding destination.

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 191