10,000 Birds

JULY 8, 2013

To me, this is like giving a child a baby rabbit as a birthday present, and then when Harvey proves to be a bit too much to care for, bumping him off in front of her. The initiative for this hunt comes from a small group of hunters. The state’s response? Cancel the 17-year-old annual festival, and propose a hunting season on cranes.

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Tennessee Hunting Hunters Wisconsin 230

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2011

Dirt hawking is a form of falconry that involves hunting rabbits and other small game with Harris Hawks (other hawk species also qualify). I have never been one to advocate the needless killing of animals for whatever purpose. My job is to move ahead and kick bushes in the hope of flushing a rabbit or hare. “HO!!

League Against Cruel Sports 270

League Against Cruel Sports Rabbits Falcons Hunting 270

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. They are called Antlions due to ants being one of their main prey items and “lion” referring to hunter or destroyer.

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 201

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

The conservation movement also has an ally in this in the farming industry, which relies on possum poisoning to reduce the potential reservoir of bovine TB (if that seems like an interesting alliance, in this fight the animals rights movement is allied to hunters, which oppose the control of larger introduced species which they like to hunt!).

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Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 262