10,000 Birds
MARCH 3, 2022
Tianmashan bonus mammal: a Raccoon Dog – though it looks a lot like a raccoon, it is actually more closely related to foxes than to raccoons. If you are wondering how on earth such an obscure and self-referential joke could survive the editing process of this blog, the explanation is simple: There is no editing process.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2017
The Eagle Huntress is a documentary about Aisholpan, her path to becoming an eagle hunter, a cultural heritage usually taken on by males, the family that supports her, and the Mongolian Kazakh community that seeks to continue the ancient tradition with its Golden Eagle Festival. It’s constructed in three acts: Home, Festival, Hunting.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. Given that few hunters actually consume coyotes, wolves, cougars, and except for a few individuals, even bears, it is obviously a “waste” of wildlife to shoot or trap these animals just for “fun” 2.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2019
There’s little doubt that these unwilling but plucky exiles have beaten the odds over the last few months, first evading the sights of eager autumn hunters, and then the jaws of hungry foxes and weasels, only to endure the many privations of the harsh and long North American winter eking out their survival in a strange and inhospitable landscape.
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. It’s a slang term however and as such is mostly used in private settings and among youths.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 16, 2015
Nearly exterminated in Maine by hunters in the 1800‘s, the charismatic, orange-beaked little puffins nested only on one other state island until Dr. Kress painstakingly – and groundbreakingly – lured them back to nest on Eastern Egg Rock in 1977.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 21, 2011
Beyond being an amazing poem, however, “The Raven&# has the additional attraction of being the subject of an essay by the poet himself that explains the process he used to write it. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.
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