10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Dad-level bird jokes are right at home at Christmas Bird Count compilation dinners. Eventually, the name came to be attached to another kind of game hunting device with which we’re more familiar today: life-sized wooden carvings of waterfowl floated on water to fool birds into landing within range of nearby hunters lying in wait.

2016 108

2016 Ducks California Hunters 108

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

’ Much I marvelled this ungainly fowl to hear discourse so plainly, Though its answer little meaning – little relevancy bore; For we cannot help agreeing that no living human being Ever yet was blessed with seeing bird above his chamber door - Bird or beast above the sculptured bust above his chamber door, With such name as `Nevermore.’

2011 249

2011 Fowl Deer Cats 249

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2012

Considering the bird survived a season in an area saturated with hunters and birds of prey, this facemelting rarity deserves our respect. However, he went far afield to find a more familiar fowl. And, the best thing was that it did not require tapes, just the right habitat and good ears and patience.

2012 155

2012 Birds Guatemala Florida 155

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Most moral vegetarians list fish and fowl as animals one should not eat. KBJ: Nobody in the animal-rights or animal-liberation movement views intelligence as a morally significant property, at least intrinsically. Animals in the wild try to escape from hunters.) What Meat Should Not Be Eaten? What is forbidden meat? KBJ: Ditto.

Morals 40

Morals Vegetarian Meat Killing 40