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Falconry – Bloodsport or Alternative Form of Birding?

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Dirt hawking is a form of falconry that involves hunting rabbits and other small game with Harris Hawks (other hawk species also qualify). This is the very best time to be in the desert with the sounds of Black-throated Sparrows, Curve-billed Thrashers and Cactus Wren permeating the still air. Take lions, wolves, hyenas to name a few.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

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They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. Rabbits are still an agricultural pest.

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I’m now petting my rabbit Dougal, 6 more birds dead. So, should we tell people not to plant anything like snowy mountain ash that the above White-throated Sparrow is eating on its migration south? I just looked over at my husband–bam 5 birds dead. Never put up a bird house?

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The Perils of Feeders

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I’m now petting my rabbit Dougal, 6 more birds dead. So, should we tell people not to plant anything like snowy mountain ash that the above White-throated Sparrow is eating on its migration south? I just looked over at my husband–bam 5 birds dead. Never put up a bird house?

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What It’s Like to Be a Bird: A Review of the New Sibley Book

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It is a book with a careful infrastructure, however (even though it doesn’t have an index), with references to one section from another, enabling the curious reader to go down structured rabbit holes, pursuing information on nesting or skeletal systems or feather structure throughout the book. copyright @2020 by David A llen Sibley.

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