10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2011
What is up with all the frickin’ Wild Turkeys out there? This is the time of year when I tend to see turkeys dead on the side of the road. News stories of turkeys causing car accidents abound around the US right now. In Boston, a turkey was the cause of a 2 car accident during the morning commute.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2011
Two new studies “add scientific evidence that hunters’ lead ammunition often finds its way into carrion-eating birds, such as eagles and turkey vultures.&# So when will conservation-minded hunters stop using lead ammunition? Why, then, is lead still used to hunt? Why, then, is lead still used to hunt?
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 18, 2015
Birders from the Western Palearctic are very favourably positioned for such a split because three of the six suggested species occur within the WP at various sites around the Mediterranean: The African Swamphen occurs along the lower Nile and its delta into the Mediterranean, while the Grey-headed Swamphen makes southern Turkey its home.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 16, 2012
One eyed birds often get put down or aren’t released but they can survive and can be fierce hunters, like this big female Redtail. Redtail as Turkey Vulture ? Redtails hunt at night… sometimes. They like to sun too. Fledglings have enough free time to try and smell the flowers.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2017
Another surprise is the two pieces on hunting, an interesting change from the essays on bird feeding in volume one. Dorian Anderson finds a moment of connection with a duck hunter during his bicycle big year, and, despite his distaste for the sport, realizes that in hunters we have allies for conservation. In the next essay, J.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 11, 2014
There were reasons to think that the White-winged Guan had been extirpated by over-hunting. These conditions offered easy access to hunters in a habitat where a bird as large as a Guan would have little chances to hide or scape. This came as rumor of a turkey-like bird occurs in the steep canyons on the foothill of the western Andes.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 18, 2011
Hunters flocked to the Kittatinny Ridge to literally blast raptors out of the sky, buoyed by the belief that they were doing the world a great service. The sanctuary has a tumultuous history that dates back to the time of the Great Depression. Raptors were perceived to be vermin.
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