10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2015

Serbia has a large number of pigeon fanciers and a long history of lack of law enforcement in the field of wildlife crime ( Newsweek on poaching in the Balkans ). APRIL 12: Second flight of a b h and then she hunts. ” Falcons do hunt pigeons, we all know that, but what is a Kamikaze pigeon? And a war to extinction??

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Switzerland Serbia Feral Falcons 192

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

Fish & Wildlife Service has a web page for this species – but it contains absolutely no information. ” Even more strangely, the U.S. No such differences in the Blue Whistling Thrush , though the HBW still states that “Female is similar but duller”, which refers to the color rather than the IQ of the bird (I hope).

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Burma India Birds Indonesia 197

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. On our North American continent, tens of millions of birds are flying northward on peak spring nights.

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Ohio Bats Legislature Ducks 197

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2021

The main conservation issues are habitat loss, hunting and wildlife trade. Some groups, for example shorebird illustrations, tend to be on a smallish side, probably due to the number of various plumages, plus flight paintings per plate. But in quite a few plates, for example, these storks, vagrants got no map.

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Indonesia Timor Brunei Guinea 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2013

The survival of songbirds depends in part upon eliminating illegal hunting. That means passing over the Mediterranean Sea and the Middle East, where you’re liable to get shot, trapped, or otherwise hunted. Take Hawaii, for example. Fish and Wildlife Service). **And Photo of the Nihoa Millerbird by S.

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Cambodia Slaughter Slaughtered Cyprus 143

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

The first most readers have probably been aware of, the cheerleader hunter who has been in the news for, well, hunting game animals and being attractive and blonde. And the last of the facts that I listed is rather an example why that support is, well, qualified. Unsustainable hunting leads to extinction. she’s Texan.

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Rhinos Hunting New Zealand Science 168

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Eventually, the name came to be attached to another kind of game hunting device with which we’re more familiar today: life-sized wooden carvings of waterfowl floated on water to fool birds into landing within range of nearby hunters lying in wait. The playful name admits the ruse, of course, and Decoy might be commended for their honesty.

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2016 Ducks California Hunters 106

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. of its hunts are successful. At between 4 pm and 6 pm, to be exact. Back to birds.

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Birds Eagles Elephants Rhinoceros 215

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

So armed with some knowledge from the “ Access Considerations for Birding Locations ” page on the Birdability website and some research, I twice visited the Tualatin River National Wildlife Refuge near Portland, Oregon with accessibility in mind. I also did a post about eBird Mobile Track using the refuge as an example.).

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Portland Oregon Laws Experience 190

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

The growth of community bird feeding programs in the 1920’s, for example, is shown to be rooted in post-World War I America prosperity–more spending money, more time, and (this is the part I like) the availability of cheap grain. The story of Duncraft is a good example. Margaret A.

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America Industry Squirrels Birds 228

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Described in the “Territoriality and aggression” chapter, this is a sublime example of behaviour from the “Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman, an Emeritus Chair in Behavioural and Environmental Biology at Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. At some stage, a salmon-hunting bear at a shingle beach came too close, mere 9 steps.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2014

Mallards did not occur in New Zealand naturally, but were released to provide hunting stock. The situation in Florida with mottled ducks and feral mallards is comparable to these examples in that we have a small, isolated population that is closely related to the mallard. The New Zealand Grey Duck is nearly extinct as species.

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Florida Ducks New Zealand Feral 204

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

He also quoted a biologist pointing out how extreme the TNR people are and gave a few examples. TE is practiced by state and federal wildlife managers; but municipal TE needs to happen if the annihilation of native wildlife is to be significantly slowed. Pretty standard. The other is trap and euthanize. ” Wait, what?

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Feral Cats Trap Neuter Return Tnr Extremist 271

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

And, though I think you can argue that the Bronx Zoo, with its numerous buildings and landscaped wildlife areas is not purely ‘natural space,’ I have wonderful memories of traipsing through its wooded areas when I was a girl. (I I didn’t grow up in the Bronx, but my best friend did.). It’s a very mixed chapter.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 149

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

National parks like Rocky Mountain, the Grand Canyon, and the Great Smoky Mountains, as well as national wildlife refuges, national forests, rivers and lakes, community parks, trails, and ball fields in every one of our 50 states were set aside for Americans to enjoy thanks to federal funds from the Land and Water Conservation Fund (LWCF).

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Legislation Montana America Wyoming 173

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) attempts to calculate the economic contribution of National Wildlife Refuge visitation to local communities. Rather, birding and other wildlife observation ( e.g., photography) are lumped together as “non-consumptive” uses of a refuge. Every few years, the U.S. billion for local communities.

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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. For example, the above saw-whet looks like its sleeping because that’s what owls do during the day and its eyes are closed…not exactly.

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Owls Barn Owls Agenda Zoos 262

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Either way, it was a heck of a sight and another example of why Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge is the best place in New York City to see amazing wildlife spectacles. I have had similar experiences at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge and you are so right on when you say “am I ever glad that I am a birder!&#

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica New York 170

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. David Tipling, award-winning and widely published wildlife photographer, travelled the world during this period, photographing people interacting with birds, and sometimes, just birds. Larks, for example. As they say, the relationship is complicated.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 212

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

.* So, it’s a good thing that Ediciones Nuevos Mundo, the publishing arm of The Friendship Association, published Endemic Birds of Cuba: A Comprehensive Guide by Nils Navarro, Cuban wildlife artist and naturalist , earlier this year. and Cuba.). Out of the 564 species found in the islands of the West Indies, 106 are endemic to the region.

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Cuba Birds United States 2000 229

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

The problem of free-roaming cats — and their predation on birds and other wildlife — is hotly contested in communities across the country, and it triggered a lively exchange in the hearing room. For example, Minneapolis has a bike borrowing program (an idea originally tried in Amsterdam many years ago) that actually works.

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Feral Cats Feral Cats Minneapolis 207

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

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

It took most of the rest of the day, but finally at around 5 we found the pack literally on the southern fenceline of the reserve, deep inside the hunting concession that made up the bottom of the park. A good example is the other Mkuze pack, a offshoot of the main pack that split off when the Mhuze pack got too big. Resilience.

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Wolves Lions Dogs Vet 189

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Quentin won the Wildlife Photographer of the Year competition (junior section) with the first-ever photograph of a nesting Chest-nutheaded Thrush. Nothing wets the appetite for a birding trip like a map with a Blue-banded Pitta posed in the middle and a Rhinoceros Hornbill flying across the edge!

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Brunei Birds Asia China 174

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public comment on a proposal to hunt sandhill cranes in Kentucky. Kentucky Dept.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 245

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2022

As an example, my posts on 10,000 Birds are searchable and available online worldwide, but my articles in Birding (such as the one above) are essentially confined to oblivion. But as far as I can tell, nobody advocates for birders, so lands are opened to hunting and fishing , but not birding, photography, and other non-consumptive uses.

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Advocacy Wildlife Portland Science 210

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

If you ever wonder why so many American birders leaven their love of nature with a little self-loathing, look no further than the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation , which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conducts every five years or so. But that’s old news. Birders pay bupkis.

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Ducks Hunters 2006 Wildlife 242

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

With the proposed hunting seasons on sandhill cranes being discussed in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin, we must not forget the whooping crane, which travels and winters in the big sandhill crane flocks. More states will doubtless join the queue of those proposing hunts. Another thing to consider. Now, it’s time to go to the top.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 242

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

They are also hunted. I also would have liked more information about where to find some of the resources described in the text but not listed in “Further Reading,” for example, the “interactive web presentation of vocal individuality in owl species” developed by ecologist Pavel Linhart and his colleagues (p.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 209

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2013

My post last week where I defended game hunting as a conservation tool has, unaccountably, encountered a certain amount of push back. Who would have thought that a post defending hunting game in general would have not been universally acclaimed? I will address two of them in the new year, namely, “Is hunting moral at all?”

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Tigers Hunting Game Protection 172

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 29, 2023

A c**k Snow Bunting on Holkham Beach, always a pleasing bird to see In February it was a case of finding those species that had eluded me so far, so I was pleased, for example, to discover a couple of Mediterranean Gulls while checking through a flock of Black-headed Gulls on the coast near Yarmouth.

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Estonia Portugal Greece Barn Owls 224

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. People would often express surprise that I, someone that cared about wildlife conservation, would eat meat.

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 262

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

And one that is easy to use, because, let’s face it, you want to spend most of your time looking at wildlife, not searching for information. Thankfully, as the authors note, this focus on animals to hunt has given way to visitors’ fascination with a range of creatures.).

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Rhinos Mammals Animal White Rhinos 238

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2017

It was hunting season and the men appeared to be mostly targeting the Eurasian Wigeon. You will notice the pink area around the causeway on the map below and that is the shooting zone and the green area is the wildlife refuge. Map showing shooting zone and wildlife zone around the island. Causeway as the tide drops on dusk.

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Seals Geese 2017 Ducks 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2020

For example, the process applies to, among other things, the listing (and delisting) of species under the Endangered Species Act and interpretation of the Migratory Bird Treaty Act. Fish and Wildlife Service (FWS) recently sought public comments on its proposal to permanently add a hunting element to the Duck Stamp art competition.

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Ducks Hunting Hunters Legislation 197

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2024

In the same article, Henry Adams, wildlife management coordinator for Lincoln Park Zoo’s Urban Wildlife Institute, describes the night heron as having “grumpy old geezer energy.” For example, researchers fenced in part of the nesting area of Northern Lapwings , thus excluding ground predators from some nests.

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Birds Research Science Europe 188

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Fish and Wildlife Service (“FWS”) met Defendants Crooked Arm and Shane in Montana, as part of “Operation Hanging Rock,” an investigation into the unlawful sale of migratory bird feathers. He likes to hunt.” Other examples of MBTA prosecutions can be found via these links: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5. # # #. Arm , 788 F.3d

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