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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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He continues with images found in illuminated manuscripts such as Catherine of Cleves’s Book of Hours and Frederick II of Germany’s On the Art of Hunting With Birds. Egyptian tomb painting depicting duck hunting in the marshes, from the eBook version of Birds and Us, © 2022, Tim Birkhead and Princeton University Press.

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German Artist Wants to Kill Puppies to Protest Dog Killings

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An unidentified German actor has been stopped by Berlin’s administrative court, following his announcement that he planned to strangle two puppies with cable wires on stage to protest against the slaughter of sled dogs in Alaska and hunting dogs in Spain, with their death being accompanied by a funeral march music and loud gong.

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Some Germans have a bird – A short birding trip through the German language

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This model was very popular in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s and it was commonly called “Ente“ (duck) due to its round hood. But no, there is another reason for this surprisingly creative way of describing the gruesome killing of a creature: the characteristics of hunting in Germany.

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

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Wolves, for example–the probable ancestors of dogs–live in packs that hunt together and have a complex hierarchy. If it did, the licking often prompts it to vomit up some of that kill for the other members of the pack to share. See TIME’s video “ The March of TIME: Hunting Dog Field Trials.&#.

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Birding the Kruger Park (5): Pafuri area part 1

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One study found that birds living in Botswana had elevated levels of lead in their bloodstreams during hunting season, presumably coming from lead bullets used on animals killed by hunters. I could immediately tell them it was an Egyptian Goose – an invasive species in Germany but not at Kruger. ” (HBW).

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Birding Shanghai in December 2023

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For Daurian Redstarts, university campuses can also be crime scenes – one recent paper reports on a Daurian Redstart fledgling being attacked and killed by a magpie on the grounds of Hebei Normal University despite attempts by the female parent to defend the chick. At least as far as the male is concerned.

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Birding Shanghai in November 2022

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I may have said this before, but thrushes always remind me a bit of German housewives – robust and reliable, but not particularly graceful (there is a reason I live in China and not in Germany). This certainly applies to the relatively featureless Pale Thrush , which basically lives up to its unpromising name rather well.

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