10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

Or These Blasts From The Past Steller’s Jay – Mysteries of the Common Birds A Different Flavor Of Turkey Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis Happy Fiesta de las Golondrinas Lets talk about ducks 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.

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2011 Bald Eagle Sparrows Parrots 181

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2017

Unless those non-birding folks happen to be duck hunters or love to go fishing, they tend to stay away from the marshes, the riparian zones, the bottom lands. We also got onto fantastic raptor migration with hundreds of Turkey Vultures, Swainson’s Hawks, and Broad-winged Hawks passing overhead.

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Costa Rica Birds Ducks Pelicans 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Thrilling Turkey Facts What Makes You Stare So, Bufflehead? He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Central Park White-Throated Sparrow Slaty-backed Gull (?) Thanks, Corey!

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica Deer 151

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 19, 2015

Our most notable sighting is probably many dozen Wild Turkeys in various flocks. It is said that this is a winter pattern, large low dipping “down” from Canada in a deep trough, like happens in the winter with clippers, but getting kind of stuck here. Otherwise everybody is hunkered down.

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Minnesota Detroit Birds Laws 178

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

In addition to Pileated Woodpecker, the Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania documents increases in numbers of Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Hooded Warbler, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Carolina Wren, Alder Flycatcher, Common Raven, Wild Turkey, and, of course, Canada Goose.

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 225

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Hunters flocked to the Kittatinny Ridge to literally blast raptors out of the sky, buoyed by the belief that they were doing the world a great service. The sanctuary has a tumultuous history that dates back to the time of the Great Depression. Raptors were perceived to be vermin.

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Bald Eagle Pennsylvania Sanctuary Hunters 255

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

These conditions offered easy access to hunters in a habitat where a bird as large as a Guan would have little chances to hide or scape. This came as rumor of a turkey-like bird occurs in the steep canyons on the foothill of the western Andes. There were reasons to think that the White-winged Guan had been extirpated by over-hunting.

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Collecting Peru Neglecting Hunting 268

10,000 Birds

APRIL 8, 2016

Turkey Vulture ripped a flap off my lip,” said Sharron Montgomery, showing what a ‘stiff upper lip’ means to a rehabber. “It Most of mine are small mammals,” said Denise Hunter. Another time I was wearing gloves, just as I should have been, and an adult raccoon bit through them and took a divot out of my middle finger.

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Wildlife Rehabilitation Wounded Wildlife Opossums 164

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 6, 2012

…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. Maybe it was my weird accent or maybe the ranch manager had wax in his ears – but I didn’t get the response I was looking for.

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Owls Texas Arizona Pigs 147

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

I must have been very lucky with my timing because I was there when swamp mahoganies were flowering and this brings the nectar hunters in droves. It wasn’t nearly as busy this time, but still okay for wetland birds. Not that we lingered to look, we were on a mission.

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Owls Birds Neglecting Hawaii 175

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.

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Mongolia Science Reptiles Indiana 181

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2010

Or one might distinguish according to the kinds of value which may justify the eating of meat: turkey dinners on holidays with the family might be thought legitimate, while a bachelor cooking for himself would be under an obligation to abstain from meat. Philip E.

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Vegetarian Foie Gras Veal Meat 40

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

The point is that even hunters seem to think that they need a reason to justify killing these animals. You don't find many hunters who candidly and unapologetically say: "I hunt because I like to kill. That's one more reason to forego the Christmas Turkey or Ham this year.

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Factory Farm Factory Farming Morals Meat 40

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 6, 2018

The migrants face many perils, hunters, predators, adverse weather conditions and lack of refueling opportunities due to habitat loss. Wild Turkey – Meleagris gallopavo. Turkey Vulture – Cathartes aura. At the far ends of the world, our southern beats are poised to welcome them back. Florida Bass Conservation Center.

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