10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2012

Suddenly I heard the farm hand’s voice shout, “It’s a twister, it’s a twister!” He was a small male, six or seven months old, and obviously not a skilled hunter. They saw movement on the grassy area to the side, slowed, and found a young hawk, soaking wet, unable to get off the ground. What should we do?” asked Nance, into the phone.

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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. Duck hunters and wildlife officials alike worry that the spill will affect both hunting season and migration. And here in the U.S.,

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2019

Technically, it is a part of the Baranda fish farm, but being a complex of nowadays brackish oxbow lakes, they are not used for carp production and the access is not restricted. Still, local hunters shoot waterfowl here, so be extra careful from September to February, especially on weekends.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2019

All winter long, large mixed flocks of crows stream over my home on their way from their downtown roosts out to feed in the farm fields outside of the city. Grant, Mark Twain, and Hunter S. It’s all very inevitable, really. They begin their outbound journey just before sunrise on most day, and New Year’s Day is no exception.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2015

Casualties surrounding migration were limited to natural events such as weather – not wind generators, poisoned food and water from industry, farm run-off, or loss of traditional stopover areas due to habitat destruction. Once upon a time, the sky was blue and unpolluted, habitat plentiful, and natural food untainted.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

The topic was the concept of humans as predators, or hunters, or really, eaters of meat, and I was discussing the many ways in which people misconceived this notion. Also, Ed Yong has written this up for Nature: Vultures blind to the dangers of wind farms: Collisions with turbines a result of visual adaptation for foraging.

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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. All our places, from cities to farms, are part of nature. she’s Texan. she likes guns and shooting things (possibly redundant given that she’s Texan).

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Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. Many say you can’t eat meat and be an environmentalist.

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

Again, they just want to prevent the "cruel" hunters from killing Bambi's mother. First of all, does he really believe that piffle? Animal activists don't care about the health or welfare of deer herds? What on earth would even give him that idea?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2020

The first stop was along a narrow dirt track adjacent to some farming land. Along the track, the shimmering scarlet gorget of a Hunter’s Sunbird shone like a beacon. Hunter’s Sunbird. A Dark Chanting Goshawk perched some distance away. Unfortunately, it flew off before we could advance much further.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2011

The farm boy hears thy tender voice, And visions come of crystal days, With sugar-camps in maple ways, And scenes that make his heart rejoice. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. The mental pictures it makes are better than any movie.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Harper, a farm boy, had never heard of feeding stations and had also, apparently, never before taken a good hard look at birds. The Eskimo Curlew “ran the gauntlet of a hunter army, which stalked him from state to state to provision meat counters by the wagonload.” White article on bird feeding stations.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

The land was of course already occupied by San (Bushmen) hunter-gatherers for millennia and more recently Bantu tribes of the Nguni branch (most notably Zulus and Xhosas). Thomas Ayres arrived in 1850 and farmed in Cowies Hill near Durban, as well as collecting birds for additional income. Image by Adam Riley.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

The reservoir is surrounded by traditional farming landscape, adding the European Turtle Dove and the Ortolan Bunting to the scene. 2 Baranda fish farm. The fish farm complex that lies about 30 km north from Belgrade, stretching between the villages Baranda and Sakule, is known as the Baranda fish farm. eBird bar chart.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2014

Further north, we slow down by the ruins of an old farm… and yes, a Little Owl greets us with its ‘smiling’ face. We are going to the Sakule fish farm in the namesake village north of Belgrade – the very best wetland birdscape in the area. Satisfying the most ancient need in one hunter-gatherer’s mind? Common Cranes.

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Reddit Animals

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Its success is due in part to its adaptability and opportionism it is primarily a hunter but may also scavenge, with the capacity to eat and digest skin, bone and other animal waste. They are farmed worldwide, with significant industries in the Philippines and in Namibia. Their eyesight is so acute that buffalos often graze at night.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2011

The whistling duck call carries with it the crimes of big business, the failures of governments and the ignorance of irresponsible hunters. In December, 1990, a single pair of ducks and some young birds began to feed at the farm of Mr. Willie Ebanks, at Hutland, Northside, in Grand Cayman. They are also the rarest.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

The conservation movement also has an ally in this in the farming industry, which relies on possum poisoning to reduce the potential reservoir of bovine TB (if that seems like an interesting alliance, in this fight the animals rights movement is allied to hunters, which oppose the control of larger introduced species which they like to hunt!).

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Conversely, many American hunters refer to the gray/grey bird as the Hun, a shortened version of Hungarian, for Hungary was the source of many of the birds introduced to the Americas. These are hardy birds – they have to be to survive a Canadian winter.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2018

The migrants face many perils, hunters, predators, adverse weather conditions and lack of refueling opportunities due to habitat loss. Mi Cafecito restaurant and farm. –Campus Farms and River 740-815 msnm. –Campus Farms and River 740-815 msnm. Farm Truck Trail. Western Australia. 22 Aug 2018.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

He thinks that the treatment of animals in factory farms is morally unjustifiable, and yet, he continues to support those practices financially by purchasing and eating meat and animal products. It goes something like this: Yes, I agree that factory farming is morally unjustifiable and ought to be abolished. Running time: 12 Minutes.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Incidents like this one, led by far-right militant, anti-government extremists, should be a concern of all Americans, especially birders, hunters, environmentalists, conservationists, and anyone else concerned with keeping public lands public. This concern of losing our public lands is actually something birders and hunters have in common.

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Animal Person

DECEMBER 21, 2009

South Florida is home to the most racetracks and Greyhound farms and trainers in the country, and you can’t turn on the radio or the television without encountering a commercial for the tracks. I followed his call, but so did Emily The Hunter.

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