10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

The Velvet-fronted Nuthatch is a beautiful bird that in some of its locations is protected by superstition ( Wikipedia ): “The Lotha Naga people will hunt many birds for food but the velvet-fronted nuthatch is generally proscribed due to the belief that killing them would bring misfortune to the hunter.

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Birds Myanmar China Chicago 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Lead shot injured and killed condors young and old, lead in the carrion they ate, lead in the bullets that hunters shot at them. I ended up looking for photographs of Peregrine hack sites, captive breeding aviaries, Hawaii tropical forest, and the California Condors of the Grand Canyon on the Internet.

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 169

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

And, then there are the extinct birds of Hawaii, four of which are represented here— Kaua‘i ‘O‘o, `O`u, Po?ouli, ouli, and Mamo (also known as Hawaii Mamo). Hawaii, photographer may be Ahulan, his assistant, p. Fuller’s astonishment at locating this “grail of extinct-bird photograph hunters” is contagious.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 264

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2019

Unlike most of the other units in the study, however, most visits were from hunters.). Kilauea Point NWR (Hawaii): 1,148,000; $34.3 Despite its relatively inaccessibility, Rainwater Basin WMD had more than 53,000 visits, which generated $2.2 million in activity and 19 jobs. Forsythe NWR (New Jersey): 306,000; $6.0 million; 50 jobs.

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Wildlife Maryland San Francisco Minnesota 239

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

I talked to an American visitor from Hawaii who had brought his wildlife-mad son along. I must have been very lucky with my timing because I was there when swamp mahoganies were flowering and this brings the nectar hunters in droves. Warriewood is a site I visited last year and hit honeyeater and lorikeet heaven.

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Owls Birds Neglecting Hawaii 173

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2018

The argument is straightforward: birders (and others, including hunters) buy stamps and the federal government turns around and obtains important bird habitat. For example, Kilauea Point NWR in Hawaii was created in 1985 with land transferred from the U.S. Kilauea Point NWR (Hawaii): 0.0%. Forsythe NWR (New Jersey): 84.3%.

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Ducks Wildlife Texas Hawaii 203