10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2020

Local guide and birder David Mora Vargas has been spending much of his time at his family’s farm in the Sarapiqui lowlands. As it learns to hunt and live on its own, the young bird has taken up residence in a tree right in front of the farm. Check it out: Juvenile Tiny Hawk Show in Sarapiqui.

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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. Regular readers of this site might be able to think of a much discussed example, that of birding on National Wildlife Refuges versus hunting. she’s Texan.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2020

Ranging across a large swath of the northern evergreen zone, they spend their summers hunting small birds from Canada to Scandinavia and on east to the shores of the Bering Sea. Small but equipped with big, hooked feet and a go-get-em attitude that would make any weasel proud, Merlins are a lethal force to be reckoned with.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2016

While hunting plays some role, habitat loss as farms switch to monocultures is the greater culprit. Accidents on roads and with farm machinery also cause many pheasant deaths every year. Despite these robust numbers, their populations are declining on our continent, falling about 32% between 1966 and 2010.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2016

But if I have to pick a living bird, American Kestrels hunting along farm roads always work for me. Speaking of summer, the coolest birds I saw this weekend were on the festive curtains (pictured above) in my son’s new cabin at sleepaway camp in the Finger Lakes. Pretty swanky, right?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2019

Neither do they seem as painfully out-of-place in the wild as an escaped “exotic” cage-bird or farm animal like the Budgerigar or Red Junglefowl – and they’re generally more likely to fare well on their own.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 29, 2019

While the hunting of game with trained birds of prey can be a controversial topic among birders , falconry was a valuable early source of information on birds, and its history, culture, and imagery continue to fascinate bird lovers, as we shall see. es de altaner ía. ( The pursuit of love. is like falconry.).

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Some farming activity in the area meant that there had been some manner of clearing created. Many friends and guests enjoyed seeing this particular bird soar, hunt, or even sit for hours in the valley. As if to stamp its approval on the habitat alteration, a Pale-breasted Spinetail voiced its content with the human disturbance.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 10, 2011

Carrington, North Dakota is farm and ranch country. The wide-open spaces of the prairie and the land it takes to make farming or ranching pay means that folks can get kind of isolated—especially in winter. It might make them stop to help a stuck birding van along a farm road. All it takes is one “Hi there, how’s it going!”

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2017

Actually, I am not waiting for them, but for the Eastern Imperial Eagle to come here to hunt Susliks – an eagle from one of the last two remaining nests in Serbia. But on modern farms, cattle are being kept indoors and if the pasture becomes overgrown, ground squirrels disappear. After a wakeup call at highly uncivilized 3.45

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2024

The selections appear to largely reflect Hauber’s personal experiences around the world and he does occasionally bring himself into the essay, reflecting on a European Robin he observes at dusk in northwestern Germany or searching for American Robin nests on a tree farm in the Midwestern United States.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I’ve been leading a small but faithful group on Trinidad for several years to count birds within a livestock farm that is generally restricted to the public (you can read about some of those shenanigans here ); this was the first time I was to embark on a CBC on the smaller island of Tobago.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

There is no better place to find grasspipers in New York State than the sod farms on eastern Long Island in autumn. This year is no different and the sod farms in Riverhead have been loaded with birds which means that the roads around them have been loaded with birders.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2017

I had never seen this species of kite before, but Guhin explained that they often hunted in the natural acres of the reserve. The trail wove downhill, around farm buildings demonstrative of the agricultural history of the site before it became protected. Guhin knew without binoculars, “ White-tailed Kite ,” she identified.

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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

NOVEMBER 9, 2017

The 850 hectares / 2,000 acres farm turned into a private reserve is reachable by ordinary cars but once inside, there is a hundred metres / 300 ft drive through a river. Working with the local jaguar conservancy, he learned that there are 10 or 11 different animals hunting peccaries and other prey at Selva Bananito. million acres).

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. Useful species were ones you could eat, or hunt, or preferably both, which is why New Zealand had several species of deer, the alpine goat-antelopes known as the Chamois and the Himalayan Tahr introduced.

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Critter News

APRIL 12, 2010

The dog breeding legislation, intended to outlaw “puppy-farming”, was prepared by Green Party leader and Minister for the Environment John Gormley. They also want an exemption for hunt kennels which do not breed dogs for commercial purposes. Legislators are being contacted by people around the world to support the legislation.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2020

nubicoides ) using them as a high viewpoint to hunt dragonflies. The lady living on a farm by the Gaborone Dam said ‘I saw a croc taking an egret.’. The gentleman living on a farm by the Ngotwane Dam said ‘A croc took my dog, right there!’. 24°45’45.74″S, 25°51’5.93″E. Later I met some trustworthy people.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2019

There are more than 50 regional endemics to choose from, and many birds are easier to see in Costa Rica than many other places because of access to habitat and/or lack of hunting pressure. Thanks to better protection from hunting, this fancy bird is tame and easy to see at many sites in Costa Rica. Buff-fronted Quail-Dove.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2019

In birding, perhaps only the proverbial wild goose chase and snipe hunt rank below owling in terms of expected success. In the dead of winter, the woods before daybreak can be dark, cold, and unnervingly quiet place, and with the warming comforts of the compilation dinner many, many hours away, it’s not a place for the faint of heart. .

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2016

This species, one of the heaviest birds able to fly, was once common through most of southern and central Europe and all the way to Mongolia, but was driven to extinction by hunting and changes in agricultural practises in most of its European range during the 19th and early 20th century.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

The first was Lewis Binford, who noted, correctly, that if you look at actual animal bones from actual archaeological sites, you could not objectively see clear evidence that would distinguish hunting from scavenging, and if you compared these “food remains” to hyena food remains, they looked roughly the same.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2019

Traditional farming landscape of small holdings, hedges and groves draped in snow… I actually hate snow, but on days like this, cannot resist it. Several poachers were waiting in ever thickening darkness (Serbian legislation forbids night hunting). Startled by our headlights, a goose was sitting in the tire trail.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2015

And that is why the hides are where they are, not to admire the scenery (or shoot at it – hunting is prohibited in the reserve and the ban is enforced). Only, this time it has nothing to do with the part of the town but with the neigbours, the feathery ones. gmail.com or check the maps at birdwatching.rs , so far, only in Serbian).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

But for a while one constant in his life was his grandfather’s farm, a far-off stretch of land in Comanche County, Texas. Done properly, a young hawk is curtailed in a growing compulsion to fly greater distances and hunt for herself by a process sometimes called “manning.” Tom Cade and Gyr by Kate Davis.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2013

In short, the accepted view used to be that a small breeding population of Egyptian Vultures inhabited Southern Africa, but has vanished facing the spread of towns, roads and farms. Neighbouring (FYRO) Macedonia nowadays has about 20 pairs, while two decades ago they had 135! Reasons for this situation are numerous.

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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

MAY 31, 2012

The behavior could be especially disastrous for waterfowl, which are hunted by people, but less so for passerines, or perching birds, which regularly come into people’s bird feeders. Regular feeding can cause: Unnatural Behavior – There is no doubt that feeding birds causes unnatural behavior.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

When looking for gloves, hand warmers, any kind of out door gear for an unexpected weather issue, look for the big box store that has a hunting section–like a Fleet Farm. Hunting sections will always have gloves, wool socks, bug spray–all sorts of handy tools. I’m going to let you in on a pro tip.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2019

Squacco Heron – the same as previous, from the left Danube bank levees, also the Veliko Blato Lake (Mika Alas fish farm in the suburb of Krnjaca, #3). Little Bittern is a reed-bed skulker and much harder to observe. The best spot is the Reva Pond #6.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

The combination of over hunting, and the native animals susceptibility to diseases carried by domestic livestock that were allowed to graze there, completely eliminated these Bighorns by 1915. Pronghorn Antelope populations once exceeded 30 million animals, but by the turn of the century, was down to just a few small bands.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2019

In southern Scotland, neat Gretna Green, we saw first hand, the successful re-introduction of the Red Kite into the rural farm areas. In Caines, Australia, we enjoyed a wet morning on the Daintree River, with Murray Hunt, of the Dain Tree River Tours.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 30, 2011

Here in New Zealand te only potential big tick would be a lost vagrant painted snipe, and we’ve already established that I don’t enjoy that kind of vagrant hunting. I’m fairly sure the only family I’m missing in Europe is the Wallcreeper (Tichodromadidae), assuming you don’t lump it with the nuthatches.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2014

There is a breeding pair of White-tailed Eagles at the Veliko Ratno Island and they can be seen year-round, but the best chances are in winter, when they hunt ducks around the island. In March and November, Common Cranes are a possibility. From late April, carry an insect repellent with you. Bus: 95, 96 & 104. eBird list.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2021

He is a deputy Marsh Warden for the Celery Farm Natural Area in Allendale, N.J. Vincent Parrot as endangered — the result of “habitat loss, hunting, hurricanes and trade.”. Jim Wright’s latest book is The Real James Bond , the biography of the ornithologist whose name Ian Fleming stole for his secret agent 007.

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Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

Regarding deer: The harm caused by overcrowding of deer herds on limited available lands, to both the deer and humans, is well documented in the scientific literature, which also documents the fact that controlled hunting is not only the most cost effective way to deal with the problem, but the only really effective way as well.

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