10,000 Birds
AUGUST 1, 2011
Bald Eagle image is by Francois Portmann and is used with permission You know, I’ve been thinking about this whole dustup over hunting cranes in Tennessee and now Kentucky. I think it’s time to hunt Sandhill Cranes. We’ve always hunted Bald Eagles. There was a lot of hunting for Bald Eagles—it is traditionally a game species.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 23, 2023
This is how it looks like: Or at sunset: A species I did not come for from Shanghai is the Black-crowned Night Heron. Its species name graydoni is in honor of Philip Newenham Graydon (1864-1940), a British planter in Sabah. Why that makes Mr. Graydon worthy of having a bird species named after him is a mystery to me.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2015
This is what we need for birds, whose rights as government-protected species are violated every day by free-roaming cats. Neighbor B tells her that his cats wouldn’t be happy indoors, that cats’ hunting is “natural,” and that he has no intention of keeping his cats inside. You call the SWAT team. What can she do?
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2015
I get that you’re really angry, I mean, he was a popular lion and yes, his cute widdle cubs will probably die to, but I can’t help feeling you’ve kind of missed the point a bit, and well, ending all hunting in Africa will not solve much and maybe make things worse and… No, no, I’m not a hunter. I’m sorry.
Reddit Animals
APRIL 11, 2023
He had a legal permit to own them (Conditional Species Permit), and had legally microchipped them according to FWC guidelines. " But I'm asking you to consider looking past your emotional bias, and taking a morally logical view of this situation. The man who owned the snakes, Chris Coffee, had legally possessed them for years.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2014
We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. As they say, the relationship is complicated.
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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