Reddit Animals

JUNE 14, 2023

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

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2011

Look at the facts, lay your emotions aside and listen to reason—exactly the same reasoning that’s been so persuasive in convincing me that hunting cranes is the right thing to do. Bald Eagles will provide a sporting challenge for hunters. Hunters don’t even need to use decoys. We need to give hunters new opportunities to hunt.

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Bald Eagle Eagles Hunting Kentucky 256

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2013

million hunters. This means that only 11% of hunters buy the Duck Stamp raising approximately $25 million a year. This is wonderful news right? With the trend of increasing numbers of wildlife enthusiasts and decreasing numbers of hunters , the National Wildlife Refuge System needs the support of more non-hunters.

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Ducks Wildlife Hunters Hunting 178

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2013

In 1976, Congress changed the official name to the Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp , presumably to broaden its appeal to non-hunters. Why promote the stamp to waterfowl hunters when it is mandatory that they buy one to hunt waterfowl? clean water) benefit from the contributions of hunters and anglers.”

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Ducks Wildlife Hunters Hunting 245

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. Given that few hunters actually consume coyotes, wolves, cougars, and except for a few individuals, even bears, it is obviously a “waste” of wildlife to shoot or trap these animals just for “fun” 2.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 240

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Proposal: Creation of a Federal Wildlife Conservation Stamp A birder, wildlife watcher, photographer and non-hunter version of the Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp (aka Federal Duck Stamp). She says, “there’s just a cultural bias against anything related to hunting.”

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Wildlife Hunters Ducks Hunting 202

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Only several dozen of these swans wintered in the region (the region being, approximately, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming) and for some reason they were almost all at this river in this year, and on this day, they were right there in view. They (hunters) see this white thing, and they aren’t entirely sure what it is,” Naumann said.

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Minnesota Wounded Wildlife Rehabilitation Montana 212

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2017

The Eagle Huntress is a documentary about Aisholpan, her path to becoming an eagle hunter, a cultural heritage usually taken on by males, the family that supports her, and the Mongolian Kazakh community that seeks to continue the ancient tradition with its Golden Eagle Festival. That’s not right.” maybe it’s in her blood as well.”

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Eagles Mongolia Hunters Hunting 102

10,000 Birds

MARCH 24, 2014

I won’t pick a fight with hunters, as long as they eat what they shoot and don’t use lead ammunition. Here is a direct (and unedited) quote: “… keep in mind the main reason why experienced crow hunters got into the sport in the first place, Fun. I am not anti-hunting. Plain old fashioned Fun.”. This is baloney. Birding'

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Killing Slaughter Slaughtered Animal Abuse 272

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2012

Just shoot ‘em all , right responsible hunters? First person to mention duck stamps in the comments wins a prize.

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Hunters Ducks Rights 169

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Barreling into your feeder with reckless abandon and cleaning you right out. When hunters would fire into a flock, the survivors would wheel around and return to the dead and dying. But imagine those flocks are verdant green, a color unmatched by any native bird currently in North American (north of Mexico, of course).

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Parrots Hunters United States North America 227

10,000 Birds

JULY 17, 2011

All eight hunters on the commission think it’s a good idea to shoot cranes in Kentucky. Why allow hunters to shoot right into the middle of them? As you’ll remember, Kentucky’s Department of Fish and Wildlife Resources unanimously passed its sandhill crane hunting proposal. The proposal now goes to the U.S.

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Kentucky Hunters Hunting Protest 260

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. They haven’t, but we have.

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Ducks Wildlife Hunting Fish 221

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2011

News stories of turkeys causing car accidents abound around the US right now. Deer season is challenging enough to navigate and but everyone seems to wear orange an hunters in trees are easy to spot. Turkey hunters…not so much. I’ve had hunters walk past me within 10 feet, completely clueless that I’m there.

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Turkey Hunters New Jersey Boston 232

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2012

Their beautiful blue-gray can really pop in the right light. As I’ve posted before they are efficient and merciless hunters. There are too many images to share so I’ll keep the captions brief and let the pictures do the squawking, er, I mean talking. They mimic our styles of dress and mock us through forced perspective.

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San Francisco Gophers Reptiles Hunters 238

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

I learned of the trip right as it had been delayed and made a vow that I would be on that ship. Finally in 1799, the first visitors on this volcanic land were a group of French seal hunters who were after the fur seals that can be found hauled out on the beaches for fur and oil, which almost wiped out the local population of the species.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 263

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2011

Hunters frequently refer to them as “Rib-eye in the Sky” due to the excellent taste. ” The big gray feather in Kentucky’s cap, to my thinking, is more like a big old hole, shot right through the crown. Rather, he said it was entirely about giving hunters the chance to hunt cranes.

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Kentucky Hunting Tennessee Indiana 258

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

Hongbenghe is a very small village in Yunnan, right next to the border with Myanmar. The birds forage in flocks and members are believed to stay on nearby if one is killed, according to the Lothas, they will wait to be killed and the hunter would soon see people around him die in quick succession one after another.”

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Birds Myanmar China Chicago 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2016

a) Recommendation : Develop and support implementation of a marketing plan with specific sales and revenue goals for waterfowl hunters, other hunters, non-hunters and wildlife viewers, etc. The physical stamp could be sent to hunters after March 10th each year. Sometimes the easiest path is not the right one.

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Ducks Hunters Hunting Wildlife 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2019

We were in the right places at the right times, this is how two birders from Ohio and myself saw this majestic trio of birds. A major year bird, one of my partner’s most wanted species, I hope I can go back to that site with her and refind this hunter of oropendolas, guans, and other large birds. Black Hawk-Eagle.

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Costa Rica Eagles West Virginia Opossums 182

Critter News

OCTOBER 17, 2008

A judge has found five animal-rights activists not guilty of getting too close to seal hunters during the 2006 hunt off Canada's east coast. The five were charged with coming within 10 metres of seal hunters on March 26, 2006 while filming the annual slaughter in the Gulf of St. Tags: seal hunters humane society.

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Humane Society Of The United States Seals Slaughter Slaughtered 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2015

The story with Cecil was something of an exception, but the universe didn’t disappoint and sure enough the latest hunter outrage story today is, predictably, about a woman hunter. Often just for being a woman (its telling how many of these “outrages” about hunting involve women, not men.

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Hunters Hunting Animal Cruelty Game 169

4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 4, 2011

Too cute, right?! While shooting the premiere episode of National Geographic Channel’s new series, Beast Hunter , host Pat Spain visited the Ragunan Zoo in Jakarta, Indonesia to visit a seven-year-old Orangutan named Pinky. Pinky sure does love Pat!

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Indonesia Spain Zoos Hunters 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2020

Yes, that’s right – she adds an epilogue. Accidentals is published by the ten-year old Torrey House Press, which has an impressive-looking roster of books, fiction and non-, about the outdoors and the American West, including The Plume Hunter, previously reviewed here. Accidentals. By Susan M. Torrey House Press, 342 pp.,

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Uruguay 2001 Bald Eagle Science 154

Critter News

DECEMBER 29, 2009

That's right, a herd of panicked elk were cornered in a cow pasture and a group of boneheads decided to "hunt" them. Even other hunters were disgusted: "How can you call that hunting?" There are some fair chase rules that any ethical hunter subscribes to.". asked Bob Coombs, 70, of Mount Vernon. That can't be called hunting.

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Hunting Seattle Hunters Cows 100

Critter News

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Defense spokeswoman Josee Hunter told the newspaper "the uniforms worn by the Canadian Forces are a reflection of Canada's proud heritage," although animal rights activists had a different take on heritage.

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Fur Canada Hunters Animal Rights 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 14, 2018

Dad-level bird jokes are right at home at Christmas Bird Count compilation dinners. Eventually, the name came to be attached to another kind of game hunting device with which we’re more familiar today: life-sized wooden carvings of waterfowl floated on water to fool birds into landing within range of nearby hunters lying in wait.

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2016 Ducks California Hunters 106

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2011

Or The Hunter Becomes The Hunted What am I talking about? crickets* Fine, you’re probably right, it is too ambitious a program anyway. Or Why Eating Raw Seafood Is Dangerous Or Ouch! That Looks Like It Smarts! A very unfortunate Semipalmated Sandpiper that chose the wrong mussel to make into a meal. Great idea, no?

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Hunters Hunting Breeding Rights 160

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

And keeping cats, natural hunters, indoors is, as a matter of biology and of common sense, not the healthiest state for them. First, there is a large and rabid — well, enthusiastic — cat lobby, including many people who support colonies of feral cats with food and otherwise, such as the large nonprofit group, Alley Cat Allies.

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Feral Cats Cats Tnr Feral 259

Critter News

AUGUST 8, 2009

Now that the species is listed in the US as "threatened," hunters can't import the dead body parts (aka hunting "trophies") in from Canada. Supposedly, environmentalists and animal rights activists have "unfairly made the polar bear into 'the panda bear of North America.'" insert crying baby picture here.)

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Polar Bears Bears Hunting Pandas 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2017

All rights reserved. All rights reserved. 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. All rights reserved. All rights reserved. All rights reserved.

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Critter News

AUGUST 24, 2010

Ugh, this is barbaric and right out of the dark ages. Animal rights advocates say it's cruel to the nearly defenseless bears and harms them psychologically. Hunters say the exercise popular in the state's hilly northwestern corner helps them train their dogs on what to do when they come across a bear during a hunt.

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South Carolina Bears Humane Society Of The United States Humane 100

Animal Person

AUGUST 5, 2009

And animal rights isn't focused on what happens in the world outside of us that we aren't directly profiting from and that isn't happening because of us (that last one is nearly impossible, as you can trace many problems other animals experience back to something human animals have done to them or their habitat or their food).

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Gazelles Slaughter Slaughtered Deer 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

I get that you’re really angry, I mean, he was a popular lion and yes, his cute widdle cubs will probably die to, but I can’t help feeling you’ve kind of missed the point a bit, and well, ending all hunting in Africa will not solve much and maybe make things worse and… No, no, I’m not a hunter. To a point.

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Lions Hunting Sierra Leone Buffalo 209

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 8, 2008

Seems that the guy that wrote Sarah Palin's convention speech was none other then noted conservative and alleged animal rights supporter Matthew Scully. Palin is known as an avid hunter; Scully is best known for his vigorous defense of animal rights. The Palin-Scully pairing is anything but a guaranteed fit, though.

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Advocacy Animal Welfare Alaska Vegetarian 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

At the beginning it was so big that I was afraid, I kept running and running, and I was glad when I saw walls far away to the right and left, but these long walls have narrowed so quickly that I am in the last chamber already, and there in the corner stands the trap that I must run into.”

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Raccoons Birds Oregon China 216

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Ease Into Some Oekologie Oekologie #10 Undercover Taxidermist Busts Illegal Hunters Cerulean Warbler Gets a Boost in Colombia Audubon Rebrand About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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