10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

But a falconer did legally trap a snowy, I saw the picture on his Facebook page before he deleted it after a firestorm of controversy exploded. When I looked at lists of birds allowed for falconry in Minnesota years ago, I asked some of my falconer friends, “Really, owls?” I learned that I knew nothing of falconry.

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Wisconsin Falcons Owls Hunting 243

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Smaller raptors were either European Sparrowhawks (true hawks) or Eurasian Kestrels (falcons). The stewardess tells him, “I’m sorry, sir, but your pet will have to go below with the luggage, in a pet cage.” ” To which the man replies, “No he won’t! He’s a Carri-on Crow.”

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Switzerland Austria Europe Spain 111

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

These large parrots are popular in the pet trade, and that’s a likely source of the population of this species on Trinidad. I had never seen a Peregrine Falcon soaring with Black Vultures before – interestingly enough I would later see the very same occurrence two days later on another part of the island. Peregrine Falcon.

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Trinidad Birds Parrots Falcons 204

10,000 Birds

APRIL 24, 2015

Macdonald is, among her many accomplishments, a falconer. White, who wrote The Once and Future King and The Sword and the Stone , and who was also a falconer – but a very, very bad one. So what’s wrong with the book? Her autobiographical story alternates with her meditations on T.H.

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Falcons Michael Vick Whales Whaling 221

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The reason we do not allow introduced species onto checklists until they are breeding and self sustaining for many generations is that without this rule you could go to a pet store, release a bunch of crazy colorful finches and count them all on your yard or state list. Let’s call it the California Condor exception. That is crazy to me.

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California Condor Rescue Game California 150

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 30, 2012

Most of these birds are escaped/freed pets who have established breeding populations, and many of these populations are growing; others could be falconer’s birds, or part of a zoo or private collection.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 5, 2015

I had a finder bring me a bird he’d correctly ID’d as a merlin – a not-too-common falcon – but when he brought him in, I could see he’d been trying to feed it BIRD SEED!” “Nestling songbirds fed hamburger and cat food,” wrote Sean O’Brien. And scrambled eggs,” added Hilary Lewis. “I wrote Louise Shimmel. “I

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Squirrels Hamburgers Chickens Wildlife Rehabilitation 250