10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2012

In California, the Cliff Swallows usually arrive in February so the agency in charge of enforcing these laws, the California Department of Fish and Game (CDFG), considers February 15th to September 1st the swallow nesting season. Fish and Wildlife Service. Outside of these dates, the nests can be removed without a permit 1.

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San Diego illegal California South America 165

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

They are also quite catholic (sorry, I really like this word) in their prey selection, feeding on 17 different species of fish and prawn in the study cited above. And there is a video here. As there are many interesting species at Sepilok, I can afford more or less skipping a few of them despite writing three posts on the location.

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Birds Sri Lanka Taiwan Cats 219

Animal Person

JUNE 23, 2010

I mean, I eat chicken and fish.". Interviewer: "Wait, so you want to abolish animal cruelty, except for chickens and fish, (pointing at the contestant) because she doesn't like them?". Interviewer: "Oh, so you've killed chickens.". Now you kill turkeys, chickens, fish and--". Well, sort of.

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Lions Animal Cruelty Cruelty Chickens 100

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2012

It is predominantly a wetland bird and most productive larger wetlands and lakes of Africa will support a population of these large, hulking birds that hang around the shallows searching for fish, waterbird nestlings and anything else remotely edible. They also prey on frogs and crabs.

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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 243

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. No one can “own” wildlife.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 243

Critter News

AUGUST 25, 2008

State wildlife officials are investigating a possible poaching case in which someone removed the gallbladder of a black bear -- which can sell for thousands of dollars in Asia -- after the animal was struck and killed this week by a car in the Lake Tahoe area. Mark Lucero of the Department of Fish and Game's Northern Enforcement District.

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Bears Asia Trafficking illegal 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

This spurred her to pursue a career in environmental education and wildlife nature tourism as a park ranger in Texas and as the Great Florida Birding and Wildlife Trail Coordinator with Florida Fish and Wildlife. We arose each morning at 4:30am to find out that we were late to the game. That is not the case on a birding cruise.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

of Fish and Wildlife Commissioner Jon Gassett has indicated that if enough people write in protest, the proposed hunting season–due to start this December– will be reconsidered. Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Sandhill Hunt: They’re Voting Now Sandhill Cranes: Game Birds?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 250

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? That’s what you do with other game, right? Those who harvest are unfortunately myopic, seeing only the instant gratification of the meal or the kill. Street, N.W.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 243

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

A pair of Hooded Vultures in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania by Adam Riley. An adult (left) and subadult (right) White-backed Vulture with full crops after feeding on the remains of a Lion kill, Ndutu, Tanzania by Adam Riley. Rueppell’s Vulture scanning for a carcass at Ndutu, Tanzania by Adam Riley.

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Endangered Species Species South Africa Morocco 194

4 The Love Of Animals

JULY 12, 2012

A Fishing Pole To Rule The World. You may think I am nuts and I’m making all of this up, but the singular BEST toy I have ever seen for a cat involved a fishing pole, some fishing string and a ponytail elastic. Loop the hair elastic on the fishing pole string and cast off. When Did Killing Bugs Become So Fun?

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Cats Kittens Bats Pets 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

There are times when acting in the conservation interest of a species or ecosystem means that the welfare of specific animals is compromised, which is a fancy way of saying that conservationists sometimes have to kill animals for the greater good. Take the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania. There is no solidarity among the big cats.

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Lions Killing Hunting Hunters 185

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

While I cannot claim to fully understand the topic, “The Impact of Deafness to the Survival of the Newborn Cells in the Brain of Juvenile White-rumped Munia, Lonchura striata “, the authors first deafened some White-rumped Munias via surgery and then killed them a few weeks later.

Birds 147

Birds China Eggs Breeding 147