10,000 Birds
MARCH 29, 2024
Research by the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust has shown that predation by Foxes (of both eggs and chicks) is one of the most serious factors limiting the success of nesting Curlews. He went on to write that “Time was when every farm in the dale had nesting curlew, but they have slowly disappeared.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2011
Flooding related to Tropical Storm Lee severely damaged the two farms used for raising Ring-necked Pheasants in Pennsylvania earlier this year, limiting the number of birds that will be released for slaughter by hunters (and slaughter is exactly what shooting farm-raised birds is). Never fear, hunters !
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 14, 2021
Finally, South Africa has three 400+ hotspots, namely 1 Mkhuze Game Reserve 458 sp. The greatest wildlife spectacles in the world! The access road passes the Lake Manyara NP and through communal farming lands within Ngorongoro Conservation Area. 3 Lake Manyara NP 573 sp. 4 Arusha NP 565 sp. 5 Tarangire NP 519 sp.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2013
In a move that brings new meaning to the term “farm team,” one of the min0r-league affiliates of the Philadelphia Phillies has a new mascot. Henceforth, the Reading Fighting Phils will now be represented by two ostriches , who will live at the ballpark and greet visitors to the team’s games. And here in the U.S.,
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. I’ve written before about how I don’t think shooting game in the name of conservation is necessarily a bad idea. she’s Texan.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 5, 2015
Steve Falk gives authoritative accounts and Richard Lewington provides the detailed illustrations in the Field Guide to the Bees of Great Britain and Ireland (a British Wildlife Guide published by Bloomsbury ). The workings of a bee colony put me in mind of George R R Martin’s A Game of Thrones.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 16, 2024
There were, however, compensations, such as finding breeding Yellow Wagtails on a nearby farm where I’d never seen them before. One count I undertake every year is the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust’s Big Farmland Bird Count. This was perhaps not surprising, as the Turtle Dove is Britain’s fastest declining bird.
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