10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
And though the satellite transmitter let Machi be tracked it did not protect it from the hunters’ guns. The last Eskimo Curlew known to science was shot on Barbados in 1963. Shorebird hunting within these areas continues to be unregulated to the present time. Let’s make Machi’s death mean something!
10,000 Birds
MAY 22, 2013
The Mission of the National Wildlife Refuge System is to administer a national network of lands and waters for the conservation, management, and where appropriate, restoration of the fish, wildlife, and plant resources and their habitats within the United States for the benefit of present and future generations of Americans 1.
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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.
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.
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.
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). Birders care about bird science and conservation, but also about access to birding sites and facilities as those locations, etc.
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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