10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2022
Harris’s are also, according to Cowan, smarter than other hawks; they hunt in packs and, for that reason, may welcome humans as hunting partners more so than other raptors. As Montgomery shows, falconry is different from any other human/animal interaction. We serve them.”.
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. Even though this referred to a period after the supposed “scavenging” phase, it lent support to the idea of a stepwise evolution of the ability to hunt.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
Sure, there were Summer and Scarlet Tanagers and a few “good” warblers, but most of the migrants were sailing on those south winds over our heads to other parts of Texas. They did flush eventually, but not because of humans. High Island and the Gulf Coast of Texas is just a very special place and I’m a convert.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 17, 2015
Fish and Wildlife Service Director Dan Ashe today announced as part of Great Outdoors Month the agency is proposing to expand fishing and hunting opportunities on 21 refuges throughout the National Wildlife Refuge System. The Service is committed to strengthening and expanding hunting and fishing opportunities,” said Ashe. “The
10,000 Birds
MAY 30, 2019
Raised in and around the West Texas steppe country where temperatures reached 100 degrees with regularity, he began life as the Dust Bowl and Great Depression converged. His parents moved where opportunity beckoned, taking him from San Angelo, Texas, to Columbus, New Mexico, then to Dallas, and finally on to California.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2014
There’s very little thrill of the hunt, very little excitement. We birders have a slightly skewed interpretation of “nature” anyway, compared to other outdoor enthusiasts like hikers and campers who actively seek to remove themselves from anything human. It feels almost cheap. There can be no denying it.
4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 7, 2012
Your cat has likely noticed that you don’t stalk and hunt like she does, so she may bring you a dead animal as if to say, Look, this is how it’s done; the same way she might do with her own kittens when she’s teaching them to hunt. Meticulous self-grooming.
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