Fox Groups Hunters Killing 
10,000 Birds
JULY 17, 2011
All eight hunters on the commission think it’s a good idea to shoot cranes in Kentucky. Why allow hunters to shoot right into the middle of them? A hunting season on sandhill cranes vastly increases the chance that collateral kill of endangered whooping cranes will occur. The proposal now goes to the U.S.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 14, 2011
I have never been one to advocate the needless killing of animals for whatever purpose. Consider the following quote, &# Falconry involves the use of birds of prey to kill other birds and animals for sport. In the case of fox hunting (a true bloodsport), dogs are domesticated animals that are killing, not for food, but for sport.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 28, 2014
After scrolling through piles of furious emails regarding a recent blog about Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest , it seemed to me that all of us needed Dr. Phil. The subject was not hunting; it was contest killing. As a group, yes, we are anti-hunting,” she said. But the idea that hunting could ever be banned is ridiculous.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2023
In the latter case, there’s no linguistic alternative to the vulture while in the first case, depending on your level of frustration, alternatives range (in the order of mild anger to disgust) from fox to cuckoo and hangman. You see, in German we have three distinct words for different groups of owls.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2016
The author, conservation biologist Caroline Fox, is observing the albatross’s shadow to the side of the boat. Fox notes the albatross in her “soaking-wet notebook” and watches it circle and fly back into the masking glare. Fox does an excellent job balancing these three elements, keeping the emphasis on the birds.
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