10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2019
Gyrfalcons have long been prized for their ability to hunt prey considerably larger than themselves, as depicted in this painting by Louis Agassiz Fuertes, where the unlucky victim is a Gray Heron (note the jesses on the falcon). Image: Portrait of a Gyrfalcon, Viewed from Three Sides , by the Lombard Master (fl. 1540 – 1560).
Critter News
APRIL 8, 2010
The psychological impact of over-hunting on the highly intelligent and sociable animals has been identified as the latest threat to the survival of the species. Tags: norway iceland whales Japan whaling endangered species. And the psychological consequences of our aggression have compromised their will to live.'.
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4 The Love Of Animals
MAY 11, 2010
The plan can mean not only reversing the current ban on whale hunting by Norway, Iceland, and Japan for the next ten years, but will allow whaling in the internationally recognized whale sanctuary around Antarctica. But recently, a new plan has been released to legalize this practice.
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
Eagle-eyed Pat spotted a Lesser Black-backed Gull in nonbreeding plumage and other birders that week noted a Thayer’s Gull (which we may have seen too–I mean, who expects Iceland Gull in April?).
10,000 Birds
APRIL 11, 2011
It was hunting around the edges of the West Pond of Jamaica Bay back at the beginning of March, a day that I saw both the individual in Queens and one in Brooklyn. Iceland Gull – Seen at Breezy Point in the middle of a huge flock of gulls on the same day as the Black-headed Gull , Short-eared Owl , and Redhead.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2024
Pinkfooted Geese in North Norfolk – winter visitors from Iceland My British list is, in fact, merely an East Anglian list, as I haven’t (so far) ventured out of the counties of Suffolk, Norfolk and Essex.
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