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What do we do about trophy ("sport") hunting?

Reddit Animals

I hate when animals are killed needlessly simply to be stuffed or their heads hung on the wall. Trophy hunters simply enjoy stepping on their heads. Popular hunting magazines make animal rights groups like they're the bad guys. It seems both political parties do nothing for animals. What are we to do?

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Feather Trails: A Journey of Discovery Among Endangered Birds–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

The tiercels (young Peregrines) must deal with Golden Eagles, Ravens, adult Peregrines, and foxes; they must also learn to navigate the skies and make their own kills, luckily these skills appear to be innately learned. Coyotes took carrion from young Condors and then killed the weakest ones. It’s not easy.

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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

10,000 Birds

The Moustached Kingfisher was known by only three samples– one female “collected” in the 1920’s, the other two females “collected” in the 1950’s, according to an Audubon Magazine article. And is the amount of knowledge gained anywhere near the amount of knowledge lost by the deliberate killing of this bird?

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Good Birders Still Don’t Wear White: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

In “Summer of the Sparrow,” actress and ABA board member Lili Taylor relates a dramatic tale of murderous passion directed towards a House Sparrow who has killed the Bluebird babies in her nest boxes. This story of avian hatred may be the most revolutionary essay in a book full of paeans to birds and birding.).

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Animal Rights is Pernicious Nonsense?

Animal Person

Again, they just want to prevent the "cruel" hunters from killing Bambi's mother. Perhaps Latimer should read some of Responsible Policies for Animals ' literature (like Factsheet #4 , about deer kills and ecosystems). First of all, does he really believe that piffle? What on earth would even give him that idea?

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Mrs Pankhurst’s Purple Feather–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

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!

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

10,000 Birds

Kills in Canada, Alaska and Mexico are not included in the count. Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Texas and North Dakota together account for 88% of the total yearly kill of sandhill cranes. She illustrates her books and magazine articles with her own sketches and watercolor paintings.

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