10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2020

It’s also one of Scotland’s most iconic birds and the favorite quarry of hunters during the August season that begins on “The Glorious Twelfth”. Red Grouse by English ornithologist and artist John Gould (1804-1881), from The Birds of Europe.

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Sheep Branding Ireland Fowl 205

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 251

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. I once knew a guy who kept and raised cats. But they don’t live in North America. Unless we put them there.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 256

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Written by Mark Avery, Conservation Director for the RSPB (Royal Society for the Protection of Birds) for nearly 13 years, this book explores the reasons for the extinction of the Passenger Pigeon from the point of view of the outsider. 8) that could not possibly happen in Europe. Or the absence of legal protection.

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

Maybe those should be protected too? Given that the Black Kite is politely described as an “opportunistic hunter” – which includes the fact that they are more likely to scavenge than most other raptors – the name choice of the company protecting the world’s cyber ecosystem is a bit weird.

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