10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Vagrancy trends and sightings are documented throughout the text, references to the over 700 reports, articles, and books listed in the References section. He is also, according to his Bloomsbury Publishers’ bio, “an obsessive birder and vagrant-hunter (when time allows!).

Birds 258

Birds Compassion Eagles Science 258

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2011

Hunters frequently refer to them as “Rib-eye in the Sky” due to the excellent taste. ” Rather, he said it was entirely about giving hunters the chance to hunt cranes. Commissioner Gassett, can it really be worth the rancor of thousands of Kentucky’s wildlife watchers to grant 400 hunters the opportunity to shoot them?

Kentucky 257

Kentucky Hunting Tennessee Indiana 257

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2014

They don’t take into account the valid concerns non-hunters have about buying the stamp, which fall into two main areas: 1. Many wildlife watchers, birders and photographers don’t want to support a stamp that is so intimately and historically associated with hunting. Is it just me, or does this make no sense?

Ducks 217

Ducks Wildlife Hunting Fish 217

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2022

As long as you do not have British friends (or people who have watched “Austin Powers”), you can also refer to it as Little Shag without embarrassment. On the other hand, the Black Kite is a raptor not known for integrity – Black Kites are opportunistic hunters and are more likely to scavenge ( source ).

Birds 147

Birds Australia Parrots Memphis 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 11, 2016

An explanation is given about how market hunters and the draining of wetlands left no place for migrating waterfowl to land or feed and “ the Great Plains soon became a mass graveyard for migratory birds, raising the question, how do we protect birds from man ? Hunters are not doing it as much any more. It did neither.

Ducks 102

Ducks 2016 Hunters Wildlife 102

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

The Latin name “frontalis” (meaning, as you can guess, something like “frontal”) referring to the distinct black forehead makes more sense. Similar to the falconet, the collar is not really the most obvious feature of the Collared Treepie. ” Some superstition surely should be supported.

Birds 147

Birds Myanmar China Chicago 147

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

By the way, and for point of reference) there are some 47 million active American birders. And keeping cats, natural hunters, indoors is, as a matter of biology and of common sense, not the healthiest state for them. million metric tons per year in the United States alone; and. (By

Feral Cats 256

Feral Cats Cats Feral Tnr 256

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2015

Meanwhile across the ditch , my useful column last week explaining how awful oxygen thief Tony Abbott could distract Australia from his flailing incompetence has sadly for him arrived too late and he has been disposed in what Australians mysteriously refer to as a spill.

Australia 156

Australia New Zealand Guinea Hunters 156

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2014

It includes stunning photographs by Tipling of eagle hunters (as in Kazakhs who hunt with eagles), Stellar Sea Eagles in Hokkaido, Japan, and Black Kites at the dump near New Delhi, India. I found this use of ‘regular people’s’ stories initially disjointing; it threw my librarian concept of a reference book out of whack.

Birds 210

Birds Egypt Family Albania 210

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. The humans tended to keep away a range of predators that might take the pups as a form of interference competition.

Alligators 115

Alligators Protection Leopards Birds 115

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.

Buffalo 199

Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 199

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

As I quoted in my previous post on promoting a Federal Wildlife Conservation Stamp , by 2011 the number of hunters had grown to 13.7 References: 1 Birds of North America Online , 2 U.S. million people observed, photographed, and otherwise appreciated waterfowl and spent $2 billion for the pleasure of doing it 2.

Sacramento 168

Sacramento Wildlife United States North America 168

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

Note in this 2010 video, birders, birdwatching and kayakers are mentioned, not hunters. Visitors are encouraged to wear hunter orange during hunting seasons for safety. Does that sound like a simple solution to the decreased funding coming from the dwindling numbers of hunters and fishers? www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk_5pt9OTLA.

Fish 143

Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 143

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 13, 2009

To the Editor: Re “ Bow Hunters’ Solitary Quest: Stalking an Elk and a Record ” (front page, Jan. 6): I was disappointed that you dignified the “harvest” (a classic euphemism) with high-tech bows and arrows of tule elk in California on the front page with references to the “sport” and compliance with “an ethical code known as Fair Chase.”

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Hunters Hunting 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

The topic was the concept of humans as predators, or hunters, or really, eaters of meat, and I was discussing the many ways in which people misconceived this notion. Even though this referred to a period after the supposed “scavenging” phase, it lent support to the idea of a stepwise evolution of the ability to hunt.

Humane 165

Humane Lions Buffalo Hunting 165

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2022

Barn Swallows are a bit unhappy with their image as restless aerial hunters and would like to gain a more stately and dignified profile. Well, there is something better, I guess – ending the post with a reference to the beginning of the post. The rather drab-looking female can only look colorful by grabbing some colorful insects.

Singapore 147

Singapore Mountain Goats Birds Giraffes 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2014

Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. Thankfully, we rented a car so I was able to visit one of the most popular birding sites around Helsinki, referred to as Viikki (also called Vanhankaupunginlahti).

Finland 164

Finland Estonia Birds Europe 164

Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

In the notes, she explains that she uses " nonhuman companion and nonhuman friend with reference to nonhumans treated with full respectl I use pet with reference to nonhumans who are sold, discarded, or otherwise disrespected" (204). Through semantic reversal, fishers (like hunters) pretend to promote rather than destroy life" (67).

Animal 100

Animal Vivisection Suffering Industry 100

Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

Latimer refers to his previous two posts where he has "documented the ethical and moral shallowness of the 'animal rights' credo itself, which is based more on an anti-human self hatred, taking the form of a 'moral' squeamishness concerned more with stamping out human 'cruelty,' no matter what the social or economic costs might be.

Animal Rights 100

Animal Rights Rights Animal Deer 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Being referred to as a raven parent is grim, because this is a rather strong insult paired with a damning judgement of your parental qualities. This goes so far as to hunters even using a very unique hunter’s jargon for the various activities related to hunting, or the names of the different parts of animals they hunt.

Germany 178

Germany Birds Hunters Owls 178

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2015

Any one or combination of those words will tell you if a person knows that route, and if they do, you can then make common reference to specific Dairy Queens, specific coffee shops, specific marinas, specific hardware stores, and specific groceries. So remember. Gull-Cross-Woman/Pine River-Walker/Leech.

Minnesota 178

Minnesota Detroit Birds Laws 178

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2011

He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Yeah, that was radically unfair and unsporting of me but these quizzes aren’t called diabolical for nothing!

Bald Eagle 113

Bald Eagle Zoos 2011 Deer 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

One study found that birds living in Botswana had elevated levels of lead in their bloodstreams during hunting season, presumably coming from lead bullets used on animals killed by hunters. According to the Eponym Dictionary of Birds (Helm, 2014), “James Sligo Jameson (1856–1888) was an Irish hunter, explorer, and naturalist.

Elephants 147

Elephants Birds Congo Africa 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2022

I cannot imagine how it feels to be the wife of a very famous man, say, the US president or a very popular actor, with everybody constantly is just referring to you as “the wife of” However, I am sure female Fork-tailed Sunbirds know this feeling very well.

Birds 147

Birds Humane Germany Family 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2021

In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. A passion for one bird family is also very useful. It’s engaging material, at times fascinating, at times a bit too much. A lot more!

Costa Rica 264

Costa Rica Brazil Bolivia Ecuador 264

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

So, when Corey and Mike asked if I wanted to review the Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania , I jumped at the chance to write about this unique type of scientific reference book. I was also curious, as a birder of the northeast United States, to see what kind of avian changes have been going on in Pennsylvania.

Pennsylvania 225

Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 225

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

He wasn’t sure of the answer to my question so he referred me to the manager of the ranch. …Sure, we got lots of ‘em javelina and wild hogs too” But I explained to him that I was a hunter of a different kind and that I was looking for tiny owls and not wild pigs. “Indigenous pig sows?

Owls 147

Owls Texas Arizona Pigs 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2015

Another great birding adventure book is The Jewel Hunter by Chris Gooddie (Princeton Univ. I think of The Jewel Hunter often when I travel to foreign countries, wishing I could do it like Goodie did. The high level of expertise of the text also makes this an excellent reference source. Press, 2012).

Papua New Guinea 180

Papua New Guinea 2014 Penguins Birds 180

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Over 3 million pairs of Antarctic Fur Seals breed on South Georgia, saved from near extinction by fur hunters. This is not unusual for some types of reference books, but in the birding world, where we refer to our guides by the name of the author, we want a little more information.

Georgia 173

Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whales 173

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

There is a chapter-by-chapter list of books and articles for “Further Reading” He states, “If anyone has a good reason and a burning desire, to track down some references on Passenger Pigeons or other subjects mentioned in this book then please get in touch with me…” I find this not only odd but insulting.

2014 160

2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

When, indeed, men speak of Beauty, they mean, precisely, not a quality, as is supposed, but an effect- they refer, in short, just to that intense and pure elevation of soul- not of intellect, or of heart- upon which I have commented, and which is experienced in consequence of contemplating the “beautiful.&#

2011 242

2011 Fowl Deer Cats 242

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Conversely, many American hunters refer to the gray/grey bird as the Hun, a shortened version of Hungarian, for Hungary was the source of many of the birds introduced to the Americas. These are hardy birds – they have to be to survive a Canadian winter.

Hungary 156

Hungary Eggs Switzerland Fox 156

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 One way to organize these ponderous complexities is to refer to our Tinbergen.

Research 190

Research Humane Compassion New York 190

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!

Mongolia 181

Mongolia Science Reptiles Research 181

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

Incidents like this one, led by far-right militant, anti-government extremists, should be a concern of all Americans, especially birders, hunters, environmentalists, conservationists, and anyone else concerned with keeping public lands public. This concern of losing our public lands is actually something birders and hunters have in common.

Hunters 126

Hunters Utah Extremist Agenda 126

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

He strongly believes that waterfowl hunters are the major reason we have waterfowl and wetlands in North America today. million waterfowl hunters in the U.S. ” If we are to continue preserving our wetlands, birders need to recognize their common bond with hunters and engage in conservation as vigorously as they do.

Ducks 117

Ducks North America Geese Hunters 117

10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

” Contemporary environmentalism arrived too late to prevent the passenger pigeon’s demise due to market hunters, but the two phenomena share a historical connection. Of course, by now most people know they have been slaughtered by hunters for their ivory. ” I’ll give you a hint, it’s not hunters!

Hunting 110

Hunting Hunters Gorillas Wolves 110