10,000 Birds
APRIL 2, 2024
The Hawaiian Crows face much more destructive threats–extreme loss of habitat; malaria, the scourge of so many Hawaiian species; predators–rodents, cats and the ‘Io, the Hawaiian Hawk. Lead shot injured and killed condors young and old, lead in the carrion they ate, lead in the bullets that hunters shot at them.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 4, 2015
Inserts in rodent poisons that assure the public they will not kill anything but the offending rats or mice pedal the same questionable claims as those of the snake oil salesmen of bygone days. Our world has changed, and humans have created that change.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 16, 2014
Notably, this is a vey small number compared to the number of rodents killed by the same cats. About 15 million birds are killed annually by hunters, and of course this is distributed among a very small number of species. billion birds, plus or minus more than a billion, are killed by cats every year in the US.
Critter News
SEPTEMBER 12, 2011
Pibarot has yet to begin collecting data through testing rodents and he says that a clinical trial in humans is hypothetical at this point - at least a decade of positive results and funding would have to be established first. The research at Laval University is still in the earliest stages.
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.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 14, 2011
I catch a glimpse of a small rodent disappearing into a burrow. The thrill of the hunt, the smell and sounds of the desert in the early morning, the ability to see a finely-tuned hunter up close. The hare zigzags amongst the cholla cactus, desperately aware of its impending fate. It disappears into a thick stand of vegetation.
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. Frogs and fish and insects and rodents yes, but not birds. you’d get to see the much larger samples of prepared specimens in the drawers.
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