10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2017

The Eagle Huntress is a documentary about Aisholpan, her path to becoming an eagle hunter, a cultural heritage usually taken on by males, the family that supports her, and the Mongolian Kazakh community that seeks to continue the ancient tradition with its Golden Eagle Festival. It’s constructed in three acts: Home, Festival, Hunting.

Eagles 102

Eagles Mongolia Hunters Hunting 102

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Beside natural grasslands, they breed in arable fields (primarily alfalfa) where there is no grazing, but they risk being killed by combine harvesters. Bustards are very susceptible to any kind of disturbance and, naturally, hunters like to shoot.

Serbia 104

Serbia Romania Hungary Hunting 104

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

That was a wild cat, a wild Wildcat, the cat that lives in the wild because that is where it is from and where it belongs, at the southern end of its pan-African range that extended at one time well into Europe and Asia. This is approximated by the size of the animal, but really, this has to be adjusted for depending on modality of killing.

Feral Cats 255

Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 255