10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
I’ve just finished reading THE PLUME HUNTER (Torrey House Press, December 2011) by Renée Thompson. In this captivating book, Thompson explores the motivation behind hunters who shot birds to sell feathers for women’s hats at the turn of the nineteenth century. What compelled these men, beyond desire for money, to kill birds?
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
However, in this post, I’d like to lay out the basic numbers as we pretend to know them about overall bird mortality, human related causes of mortality, and somewhere in there I’ll note that the number of birds that are killed by windmills is so small that it says “zero” on my pie chart.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 25, 2016
Thus the decision was made to kill 3,600 Barreds, and it’s hard to fault the inescapable logic of doing so, as one Audubon Society director expressed it: On the one hand, killing thousands of owls is completely unacceptable. Other animal control issues that involve mass killing make for easier decisions, according to Peter P.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. ” This leads to obvious conflicts with the NAMWC prohibition against the frivolous killing and waste of wildlife. Consumptive & Non-consumptive Users. But is there validity to these commonly held ideas?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2019
He gives lots of marvelous examples, such as the Blackpoll warbler, “among the most astonishing and extreme of all migratory birds.”. Example A, perfectly up to date, is the wind turbine. Kaufman knows that duck hunters can be ardent, loving conservationists, too. by Kenn Kaufman.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 2, 2011
(Check out Part 1 here) (Check out Part 2 here) This hawk was a fierce hunter. Another example of cacheing but this time it was intentional. Having been gone for 5 or 6 months, she returned with a new style much less dependent on killing the prey on the ground. Patch was focused and deliberate, consistent and inventive.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 14, 2011
There are many examples in the animal world of pack behavior. I have never been one to advocate the needless killing of animals for whatever purpose. Consider the following quote, &# Falconry involves the use of birds of prey to kill other birds and animals for sport. Take lions, wolves, hyenas to name a few.
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