10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2017

He is currently a Fish and Wildlife Technician with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation and a Graduate Research Assistant at the Research Foundation for SUNY. This quote perfectly sums up the state of the Snowy Owl/birding ethics discussion. Poisoning of wildlife with anticoagulant rodenticides in New York.

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Ethics Owls New York North America 154

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

The North American Model of Wildlife Conservation (NAMWC) is often held up as the best system of wildlife management and conservation in the world. But the tenets of the North American Model were developed in the 19th century, when wildlife ethics and science were a mere glimmer of what we understand today.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 247

10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2022

Some, according to her, consider it a form of slavery; a 1982 book in my library, The Birdwatcher’s Companion cites “the sentimentalist element of the wildlife protection movement” as deeming falconry to be comparable to cockfighting.). The latest volume on the subject is Montgomery’s The Hawk’s Way: Encounters With Fierce Beauty.

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New Hampshire Chickens Hunting Falcons 227

Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

New England Reptile Distributers just released a video explaining a terrible incident involving the FWC (Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission). FWC officers arrived at a reptile facility and forcefully killed 29 reticulated pythons, 5 Burmese pythons, and 1 pregnant Boa constrictor.

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Pythons illegal Florida Killing 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

If you want to know what happened on August 31, 1984, I can name at least one event: In the Padang-Sugihan Wildlife Reserve in South Sumatra province, a Large Frogmouth was mobbed by a Greater Racket-tailed Drongo, as described here. A kingfisher with a somewhat deficient work ethic, I guess. of its hunts are successful.

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Birds Eagles Elephants Rhinoceros 230

Reddit Animals

MAY 12, 2021

submitted by /u/dannylenwinn [link] [comments].

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Wolves Killing Idaho Wildlife 52

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2013

With casual bird watchers out numbering hardcore bird watchers, people with a camera and an interest in wildlife are not going to have all the facts about wildlife before they go out. And quite frankly, I’ve seen some of the most dedicated of ethical birders get excited at finding an owl and get closer than they should.

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Owls Barn Owls Agenda Zoos 269