10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

Survival rates of chicks increase when there are helpers present – and if in captivity this is not an option, humans can also take the place of helpers ( source ). Wikipedia reports that he “was an excellent tennis player and an enthusiastic big game hunter. ” ( source ).

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Burma India Birds Indonesia 197

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2018

1PM – Larry: Hunters are not Conservationists. Bonus points if you present your idea in an absolutist tone, as if we would be morons to disagree! …. 7AM – Duncan: Bird Photography is a Fantastic Waste of Time. 1PM – Meredith: Bald Eagles are Tools. 7PM – Greg: If Birds are Dinosaurs I’m a Monkey’s Uncle.

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Bald Eagle Battery Hunters Owls 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2011

Or The Hunter Becomes The Hunted What am I talking about? Then we were all distracted by the Hudsonian Godwit that was also present awakening from its slumber and letting us see its bill and when we looked again for the shell-bill it was gone. Or it was present sans shell. Or Why Eating Raw Seafood Is Dangerous Or Ouch!

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Hunters Hunting Breeding Rights 160

10,000 Birds

MAY 23, 2021

They will list ten or twenty or fifty titles, and will include, inevitably, Hunter Biden’s autobiography, and Volume 12 of Barack Obama’s, and other such works. 2: There is a band of some renown, an indie rock band, called Shearwater, whose lead singer has written a book to be reviewed on this site presently. Stay tuned.]

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West Virginia Rats Albatross Georgia 203

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

From what I’ve been hearing, sport hunters are chomping at the bit to also return to the forest in droves. These fierce predators would much rather grab a juicy cicada than a bird; but with those oversized, powerful feet – I’m fairly certain they would take the opportunity if presented with it.

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Trinidad Hunting Venezuela Woodpeckers 260

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2021

In 2012 , the NFC revised some of its goals and set forth a new vision of waterfowl management that emphasized a core of hunter and conservationist supporters. In an effort to better understand the “human dimension” of its conservation efforts, several surveys were conducted, including the National Birdwatching Survey (NBS).

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Minnesota Research Pennsylvania Ohio 264

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2017

For nearly a hundred years, after the eggers, meat-hunters, plume-hunters, and a human-influenced gull population boom, puffins were absent from the island. Hordes of these delightful black-and-white beauties were present and I did not get tired of photographing them. Most of our looks were much better than this.

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Puffins Eggs Hunters United States 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

It is estimated that there were more than 1000 Great Bustards in the northern lowlands of Serbia at the beginning of the 20th century, but back then these birds were also present in the south and the east of the country. Bustards are very susceptible to any kind of disturbance and, naturally, hunters like to shoot.

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Serbia Romania Hungary Hunting 104

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2016

For example, years ago, Eiton Tchenrov postulated that the wild progenitor of the domestic dog, some subspecies or another of wolf, could benefit from overlapping its breeding territory with human hunters. We compared alligator body condition in similar habitat with and without wading bird nesting colonies present.

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Alligators Protection Leopards Birds 115

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2011

But what no major checklist has yet done (to my knowledge) is to take the next step and rearrange the order in which these groups of birds are presented. Seriemas are long-legged terrestrial hunters related to extinct terror birds (phorusrhacids). Some of this should sound familiar. Peregrine Falcon ( Falco peregrinus ) © David J.

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Parrots Falcons Costa Rica South America 226

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Lead shot injured and killed condors young and old, lead in the carrion they ate, lead in the bullets that hunters shot at them. It’s presented here from a different perspective, both more personal and more scientific (those footnotes!). Coyotes took carrion from young Condors and then killed the weakest ones.

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California Condor Falcons California Birds 176

Animal Person

JULY 15, 2010

A comment left yesterday on a two-year old post, by None Please presented a phrase I've never heard before and I'd like to address it. "In None Please presents death by bullet and death by car as the only two options for the deers. In the Washington metro area, we have a BIG deer problem. What happens after that is immaterial. .

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 14, 2011

A close look at a grouse is not something that is very likely unless the viewer is very lucky, however, as Ruffed Grouse tend to be wary and will explode into flight if approached too closely, usually well before the person trying to get a good look is even aware that the bird is present.

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Georgia North America Alaska Hunters 200

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2011

(Check out Part 1 here) (Check out Part 2 here) This hawk was a fierce hunter. I’ve seen young Red-tailed Hawk s who just don’t have the hang of it, counting on luck of good fortune to present them with a careless gopher or a rare easy meal. Patch was focused and deliberate, consistent and inventive.

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Gophers Blackbirds Tanzania Hunting 206

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2012

The steeper slopes have some of the same vitality as the pronghorn (still present, though their numbers are down dramatically after a hard, snowy winter two years ago.) The tussocks are badgers, the stones are grouse until they fails to fly away.

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Wildlife Ferrets Montana Prairie Dogs 183

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2017

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. Another surprise is the two pieces on hunting, an interesting change from the essays on bird feeding in volume one. In the next essay, J.

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2017 Costa Rica 2007 Hunters 139

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Baicich, one of our most passionate proponents of American birding conservation — misguided though he is on the topic of the Duck Stamp — has identified the Bold Ideas presented on the Conserving the Future site that deal specifically with birds and birding issues.

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2011 Wildlife Birds Deer 140

Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

It's too bad that Latimer's presentation is so obnoxious, as even when he raises what might be valid points, he makes you want to disagree with him. Again, they just want to prevent the "cruel" hunters from killing Bambi's mother. And one of that handful is the environment. First of all, does he really believe that piffle?

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Animal Rights Rights Broiler Chicken Animal 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

Cocker presents Eurasian Larks as a prime example of one of the recurring themes of the book, our culture’s tendency to cherish a bird in poetry and myth and to simultaneously exploit, even ravish, the actual bird. Larks, for example. The Birds of Prey chapter, on the other hand, is 18 pages long. Birds and People is an exceptional book.

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Birds Egypt Family Eagles 212

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Unfortunately for the hunters these were already all extinct, and with the introduction of cats, rats, stoats and the like the only upland game bird, the New Zealand Quail , was fast on the way out too. A PhD student was presenting her research into the population in Westland, the relic population of Grey Duck.

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Species New Zealand Ducks Game 166

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2012

Among the gentry there seems not to have been much of a line between being a bird watcher and a bird hunter, and the home naturalist could certainly develop a nice private collection. All of the sudden we have bird multi-media everywhere. you’d get to see the much larger samples of prepared specimens in the drawers. Or get your own.

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Birds Collecting Rodents Wounded 169

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2024

The Red-breasts tend to keep together, though within the White-front flocks, and it always takes some time with the scope to pick them out, even when there are hundreds of birds present. Stopping spring shooting and educating hunters about these endangered birds has helped reduce the pressure on the species, but many threats still remain.

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Bulgaria Geese Romania Estonia 130

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

It’s not just that he has reduced the birds to their basic shapes, he presents them in visually delightful compositions. The Eskimo Curlew “ran the gauntlet of a hunter army, which stalked him from state to state to provision meat counters by the wagonload.”

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Betty Crocker Birds 2008 2007 170

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

Changes in Pennsylvania’s forests, farmlands, wetlands, and grasslands are traced from the time of the first European settlers, when forest predominated, to the present period, with 11 percent of the state developed, some wetland loss, some wetland gain, and the danger of pollution in riparian habitats.

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 227

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2022

There is precious little ABA content for novice birders, and no single publication that covers the basics and presents an entry point for birding (and early ABA membership). Until now, it has only been open for hunters. Most of the ABA Young Birders do not appear to be new birders.).

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Advocacy Wildlife Portland Science 210

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? Eventually, I found the lone whooping crane present at the refuge by its call.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 242

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

My mind wandering off: A century ago, birding meant hunting birds and we stole the term from hunters – it may be time to steal another one: “Lord John came abreast of me, however, and his face was more grave than was his wont. There are some 56-57 species worldwide which hardly presents a challenge.

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Campaign Hunters 2011 Europe 126

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

It turns out that there are new things that can be learned about extinct birds, and that even if the conclusion is obvious–the bird is gone, there is no time machine and we can’t change that–the way in which it is presented can differ as well. “Winter Sports in Northern Louisiana: Shooting Wild Pigeons.”

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2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 160

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2011

The whistling duck call carries with it the crimes of big business, the failures of governments and the ignorance of irresponsible hunters. In 1992, in recognition of his work, the National Trust for the Cayman Islands presented Willie with its prestigious Award of Distinction for Environmental Conservation. They are also the rarest.

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Antigua and Barbuda Puerto Rico Dominican Republic Jamaica 220

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Here, Slaght presents his data analysis and his conservation plan for Blakiston’s Fish Owl. He has a wonderful website , where you can donate to these efforts through the WCS or link to some of his presentations, including this talk to NYC Linnaean this past October. ’ The last chapter is different, though.

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Owls Russia Fish Research 134

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2017

There were plenty of other ducks present and they included Eurasian Wigeon , Common Shelduck and Tufted Ducks. At the car-park there is a trail that many of the hunters use and also birders, but it is risky! Common Eider were visibly feeding as the water dropped back from the causeway. Causeway as the tide drops on dusk.

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Seals Geese 2017 Ducks 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2015

Bird Studies for Teens was running simultaneously, which allowed the adult group to share meals, certain boat trips, and after-dinner speaker presentations with sixteen 14- to 17-year-olds. Hog Island offers programs for all levels of birders , from beginners to experts.

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Puffins Birds Groups West Virginia 253

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family.

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2011 Fowl Deer Cats 243

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

We actually spent considerable time searching unsuccessfully for this highly sought-after bird; however I did suspect they were not gone, as several hunters I interviewed knew the bird and claimed it still existed. Whilst in Atewa Range Forest Reserve, a hunter passed us deep in the forest and I asked him to show us his night’s catch.

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 191

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Since I was mapping-in human ‘territories’ or home ranges, and trying to figure out how tropical hunter-gatherers found their way around the landscape, the mechanisms of migration were interesting to me. (It And, much of the research being done in those days was about the mechanisms. But I’m getting a bit ahead of myself.

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Research Humane Compassion New York 191

10,000 Birds

APRIL 28, 2020

Because many non-hunters purchase Duck Stamps to conserve waterfowl and other wildlife, there was substantial opposition to this proposal , even as many acknowledged the tremendous contributions that hunters have made to waterfowl conservation. The comment period closed on March 16, 2020.

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Ducks Hunting Hunters Legislation 197

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

And then, in 1996, a farmer/fossil-hunter named Li Yinfang found a unique fossil in his home province of Liaoning–a beautifully preserved turkey-sized creature that clearly had feathers. People and history come into play in “The dinosaur hunters,” a chapter on larger than life personalities such as E.D. No feathers!

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Mongolia Science Reptiles Indiana 182