10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2014

I won’t pick a fight with hunters, as long as they eat what they shoot and don’t use lead ammunition. Here is a direct (and unedited) quote: “… keep in mind the main reason why experienced crow hunters got into the sport in the first place, Fun. I am not anti-hunting. Plain old fashioned Fun.”. This is baloney.

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Killing Slaughter Slaughtered Animal Abuse 272

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

I learned of the trip right as it had been delayed and made a vow that I would be on that ship. So, I anxiously followed the “Flock to Marion 2022” Facebook group in anticipation for open cabins to come up for sale. The seal hunters accidentally introduced mice to Marion, as was the case for many islands around the world.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 261

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APRIL 21, 2016

” The Task Group issued its final report on September 15, 2015. ” The Task Group issued its final report on September 15, 2015. b) Recommendation : Work with all groups to identify synergistic opportunities for promoting broad conservation benefits of the Duck Stamp. 1) Action : U.S. no physical stamp required).

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Ducks Hunters Hunting Wildlife 100

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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? We need to create a clamor here, one that can’t be shoved aside by special interest hunting groups. The proposal now goes to the U.S. Let the majority speak!

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Kentucky Hunters Hunting Protest 260

Critter News

DECEMBER 29, 2009

That's right, a herd of panicked elk were cornered in a cow pasture and a group of boneheads decided to "hunt" them. Even other hunters were disgusted: "How can you call that hunting?" There are some fair chase rules that any ethical hunter subscribes to.". asked Bob Coombs, 70, of Mount Vernon.

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Hunting Seattle Hunters Cows 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

First, there is a large and rabid — well, enthusiastic — cat lobby, including many people who support colonies of feral cats with food and otherwise, such as the large nonprofit group, Alley Cat Allies. And keeping cats, natural hunters, indoors is, as a matter of biology and of common sense, not the healthiest state for them.

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Feral Cats Cats Tnr Feral 252

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. The Afrotheres consist of several groups of mammals that evolved in Africa and include elephants, hyraxes, elephant shrews, aardvark, pangolin and golden moles. In Asia they are even commonly kept as pets!

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 195

10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2019

I started to learn how to tell waders (and gulls) apart only when I locally ran out of other hard bird groups to tackle. Still, local hunters shoot waterfowl here, so be extra careful from September to February, especially on weekends. Occasionally I would see this or that shorebird and still remember how uncertain of its ID I was.

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Serbia New Jersey Europe Hunters 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2012

Our small group spent a weekend at the Ferret Research Camp, a cluster of trailers tucked in the middle of a black-tailed prairie dog town and the site, as the name implies, of a black-footed ferret reintroduction program. The tussocks are badgers, the stones are grouse until they fails to fly away.

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Wildlife Ferrets Montana Prairie Dogs 179

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

There were the neocons, which despite their association with the authoritarian right wing government of George W Bush were wide eyed idealists who believed that you could make the world a better place, and there were the realists, who thought the world was essentially bricked and the best you could hope for was some stability.

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Rhinos Hunting New Zealand Science 166

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

In responding to Suzie’s post defending wildlife rehabilitation I began to think again about the areas in which animal rights and animal welfare overlap with the field of conservation, and the ways in which they don’t. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans.

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 257

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

The topic was the concept of humans as predators, or hunters, or really, eaters of meat, and I was discussing the many ways in which people misconceived this notion. The third argument comes from the Berkeley group. Buffalo, even the big giant extinct ones that previously roamed Africa, are in some ways easier, though with drawbacks.

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Humane Lions Buffalo Hunting 165

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2017

Unless those non-birding folks happen to be duck hunters or love to go fishing, they tend to stay away from the marshes, the riparian zones, the bottom lands. However, much to our pleasant surprise, recent grading had transformed the moonscape on the entrance road to a smooth, if dusty, ride right on in to Cano Negro village.

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Costa Rica Birds Ducks Pelicans 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. YourBirdOasis.com Mar 11th, 2011 at 11:00 pm Motmots are totally cool group of birds! Wicked, right? 6 Responses to “What is the National Bird of Nicaragua?&# Hat-tip to Stella.

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Nicaragua El Salvador 2011 Deer 180

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JUNE 4, 2019

Their populations, plus those of other species that ‘wore’ the coveted long, colorful feathers used for women’s fashionable hats, were being dangerously depleted by hunters intent on feeding the millinery industry. The late Victorian age was not a good time to be an egret! Botibol” (p. There is no effort at context.

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Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 118

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Each bird illustration consists of two parts–the image itself on the right-hand page full-page size with a wide white border, and the text on the left-hand page, a brief description of the bird in Harper’s distinctive voice. Charles Harper’s Birds & Word s is the signature book of this bird and nature artist’s career.

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Betty Crocker Birds 2008 2007 170

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Oh, cheeky me left out another alternative for both cases, which brings us right to the origin of these sayings: the devil. You see, in German we have three distinct words for different groups of owls. If you haven’t learned their specific vocabulary, you wouldn’t even understand what the heck two hunters are talking about.

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Germany Birds Hunters Owls 172

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2014

Defenders of the gun club accused me of lying, of distorting facts, of being anti-hunting, of being an animal rights activist, of being allied with the dreaded Friends of Animals, of hiding my true agenda (gun control), and of being unconcerned that animal lovers were supposedly threatening members of the gun club with death.

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Killing Hunting Hunters Possums 255

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Giving a few hundred hunters something else to shoot, in my opinion, cannot be worth the blowback from tens of thousands of people who are willing to travel and spend just to watch the birds fly over. Isn’t that neat?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 239

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. He sat…his crown giving searing shafts of violet as the light caught the feathers at just the right angle.

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Costa Rica Brazil Ecuador Bolivia 264

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MARCH 20, 2011

So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? 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? Do all hunters realize that?

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 239

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Thanks mostly to David Lindo, The Urban Birder, there are a few British bird groups touring the country every year now, even the BBC came to film the world famous Long-eared Owl gathering in the town of Kikinda with more than 700 birds in some winters. What has changed in the meantime? eBird bar chart. #3 3 Rusanda Nature Park in Melenci.

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Serbia Birds Bulgaria Farming 150

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

…Sure, we got lots of ‘em javelina and wild hogs too” But I explained to him that I was a hunter of a different kind and that I was looking for tiny owls and not wild pigs. ” I ran and got my scope and video stuff, tripped in a pothole, twisted my ankle and somehow limped to where the group were huddled.

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Owls Texas Arizona Pigs 144

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

from left to right Fred, Mike, Isaac, Andrew, Gene (in back), Tom Though it was an absurdly long trip and the ratio of birding to driving was not ideal the twitch was well worth it. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Wicked, right? I disapprove.

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New York Woodpeckers Jordan 2011 185

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

All of this leads to a longer life list, which is, after all, the entire point of bridwatching, right? Since I was mapping-in human ‘territories’ or home ranges, and trying to figure out how tropical hunter-gatherers found their way around the landscape, the mechanisms of migration were interesting to me. (It

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Research Humane Compassion New York 187

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

I was in contact with a group of birders for whom I arranged and guided an annual tour to Africa. We already had South Africa, Zambia and Uganda under our belts, but my clients’ request for the next year came right out of the blue: Ghana! The rare Rufous Fishing Owl was one of the many species seen by the group here.

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 188

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

Foxes have also been known to take their eggs and there are now numerous local groups who endeavour to help the populations of Hooded Plovers along their local coastlines. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. What a horror! What a disaster!

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Species Australia Birds Parrots 174

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Here’s a video of Ted Cruz agreeing with the ultra right-wing crazies and promising to grant them their wish. The goals of these national right wing groups seek the handover of federal land to private ownership. This concern of losing our public lands is actually something birders and hunters have in common.

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Hunters Utah Extremist Agenda 123

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2014

Lacking, as I do, a birding reputation that would make people part with cash for my time I’ll have to go for the rarity hunters and put together an itinerary of highlights that can’t be missed. Luckily, I have just the mega tour I need, right here in the islands I call home. … Extinction is forever. What a horror!

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New Zealand Ducks Australia Mountain Goats 194

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

He strongly believes that waterfowl hunters are the major reason we have waterfowl and wetlands in North America today. And, let’s face it, he is right. million waterfowl hunters in the U.S. I was really taken aback when I saw this. Crossley, however, articulated a different goal. Today there are an estimated 1.2

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 114