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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Ducks Wildlife Hunters Hunting 174

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Historical data indicated that since the first settlers arrived 53 percent of the original 221 million wetland acres found in the contiguous United States had been destroyed. The picture was the same across Canada, where a large percentage of the United States’ wintering waterfowl nest.

Sacramento 165

Sacramento Wildlife United States North America 165

10,000 Birds

MAY 20, 2016

This is Officer Judy Smith, from the Department of the United (crackle crackle), and this is a final notice from the United States Federate (crackle crackle). I’ve received stacks of hate mail from hunters who use lead bullets (as opposed to copper), outdoor cat owners, etc etc etc. Uh-oh, I thought.

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Feral Cats Wildlife Rehabilitation United States Slaughter 101

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

This has benefited both the waterfowl hunters and everyone else who likes ducks and their kin. Eventually, the pigeons, as it were, may come home to roost and the waterfowl and other wildlife, as well as hunters and bird watchers, will be sitting ducks.

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Ducks Hunters Hunting Wildlife 205

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

MAY 21, 2011

Hunters frequently refer to them as “Rib-eye in the Sky” due to the excellent taste. ” Also from his letter: “ They have been hunted for more than 50 years in the United States, and all three populations which have been hunted are currently at population highs. Well, fire up my grill.

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Kentucky Hunting Tennessee Indiana 256

10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2021

In 2012 , the NFC revised some of its goals and set forth a new vision of waterfowl management that emphasized a core of hunter and conservationist supporters. In an effort to better understand the “human dimension” of its conservation efforts, several surveys were conducted, including the National Birdwatching Survey (NBS).

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Minnesota Research Pennsylvania Ohio 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. State wildlife agencies have a financial conflict of interest that makes it impossible for them to manage predators with regards to the wider public values.” Consumptive & Non-consumptive Users.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 232

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

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

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Feral Cats Cats Tnr Feral 252

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2017

Atlantic Puffins are easier to see, and see well, in Maine than anywhere else in the United States. For nearly a hundred years, after the eggers, meat-hunters, plume-hunters, and a human-influenced gull population boom, puffins were absent from the island.

Puffins 100

Puffins Eggs Hunters United States 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

How many birds to cats kill in the United States? A recent meta study ( The impact of free-ranging domestic cats on wildlife of the United States ) that applied strict inclusion criteria and some fancy statistics estimates that 2.4 A certain number of these deaths are caused by humans, directly or indirectly.

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Killing Cats Fish Birds 274

Critter News

AUGUST 24, 2010

Armed with new undercover video of four such events, the Humane Society of the United States is pressuring state officials to explicitly outlaw the practice, which the organization says is effectively banned in every other state.

South Carolina 100

South Carolina Bears Humane Society Of The United States Humane 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

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. None of the three voyagers made landfall due to poor weather and dangerous conditions.

South Africa 261

South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 261

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

But then, I am not a hunter, and do not understand them either). The introduction was a success, and the birds quickly spread to nearby counties” ( source ). (I I still think that the idea of introducing a bird species because it is fun to shoot is weird.

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Raccoons Birds Oregon China 204

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2022

Authors Alexander Lees & James Gilroy are British ornithologists who have spent time working in the United States. He is also, according to his Bloomsbury Publishers’ bio, “an obsessive birder and vagrant-hunter (when time allows!). The two men have co-authored several previous articles on avian vagrancy.

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Birds Compassion Eagles Science 255

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Even though we spend more money and are far more numerous than hunters this is not commonly understood. The figures released by the United State Fish and Wildlife Service show there are millions of us…. so… since I am from the state of Missouri: Show Me. We tend to be slightly older than that.

West Virginia 221

West Virginia Chickens Missouri United States 221

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.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 142

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

Their populations, plus those of other species that ‘wore’ the coveted long, colorful feathers used for women’s fashionable hats, were being dangerously depleted by hunters intent on feeding the millinery industry. The late Victorian age was not a good time to be an egret!

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Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 118

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

Each chapter of The Jewel Hunter reads like a mini-travel novel. If you want to travel the world birding and drinking beer, The Jewel Hunter is a must-buy. The Jewel Hunter belongs to a singular niche, the Big Year/Big Lifelist book. The Jewel Hunter can be frustrating in this respect. And mosquitos. And leeches.

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Hunters Sri Lanka Asia Solomon Islands 187

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

Is there a birder in the United States who is not familiar with the art of Charley Harper? ” In some cases, the bird’s path to extinction is stated in haunting brevity. The Eskimo Curlew “ran the gauntlet of a hunter army, which stalked him from state to state to provision meat counters by the wagonload.”

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Betty Crocker Birds 2008 2007 170

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2013

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. 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.

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Pennsylvania Breeding Birds Sparrows 220

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

economy than either hunters or anglers: 2011 Fishing Expenditures: $41.8 Clearly, wildlife watchers as a block contribute more to the national economy than either hunters or anglers. Wildlife watchers in the United States spend a lot more money in a year on their collective activities than either hunters or anglers.

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Hunters Ducks 2006 Wildlife 235

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Giving a few hundred hunters something else to shoot, in my opinion, cannot be worth the blowback from tens of thousands of people who are willing to travel and spend just to watch the birds fly over. Isn’t that neat?

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 239

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2016

Interestingly, the eagle featured in Panama’s coat of arms is not the Harpy Eagle, but a representation of an American eagle species, as the United States was the first country to recognize Panama’s independence. A Harpy Eagle. Like Woods, I can’t get over their talons.

Panama 100

Panama Grizzly Bear Porcupines Eagles 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

This almost certainly can be argued to be true just on the basis of logic, because feral Cats are proficient hunters and are entirely out of ecological place. Here we conduct a systematic review and quantitatively estimate mortality caused by cats in the United States. Let me tell you this: They are. billion birds and 6.9–20.7

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 252

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

I think that Avery was reaching for a portrait of the modern United States, the one that replaced the vast forests, but it just doesn’t work. journey, written up in diary format.

2014 159

2014 Killing Michigan Kentucky 159

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.

Owls 144

Owls Texas Arizona Pigs 144

10,000 Birds

MARCH 12, 2011

Living in Colorado, I was practically next door neighbors to a Spix’s Macaw, “Presley,” who was discovered in an Evergreen living room—the only known Spix’s Macaw in the United States—and who was repatriated to Brazil before I even knew he existed.

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Brazil 2011 Birds Wildlife 197

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2016

We are all suckers for an albatross, at least in the United States. The species was seemingly killed off by feather hunters, but then, after years, reappeared at the site of one of the deserted breeding colonies, Torishima Island in Japan. Do I need to say anything more?

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Fox Albatross Geese Bald Eagle 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

So, I welcomed the opportunity to read and review Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds , by John Pickrell, published in the United States by Columbia University Press. No, not a reality show, the history of paleontology in the United States is apparently livelier than the Indiana Jones movies.)

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Mongolia Science Reptiles Indiana 178

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2011

It goes without saying that our three breeding species of mergansers in the United States are amongst the most brilliantly colored birds we have. Red-breasted Mergansers occupy most of Canada and into Alaska for breeding with some of the norther tier of the United States.

Colorado 157

Colorado Breeders United States Denver 157

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

The Crossley ID Guide: Waterfowl covers every residential, migrating, vagrant, exotic, and introduced swan, goose, dabbling and diving duck in North America (Canada and the United States): 62 Species Accounts on four swan species and one vagrant subspecies; 15 goose species; 46 duck species; plus accounts for hybrid geese, ducks and exotics.

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Ducks North America Geese Hunters 114