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What do we do about trophy ("sport") hunting?

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Popular hunting magazines make animal rights groups like they're the bad guys. They claim to be "conservationists" even though we all know natural selection plays its role in the wild. It seems both political parties do nothing for animals. I've gotten to the point where I don't even vote anymore.

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How Many Birders Are There, Really? (Updated)

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The most recent report was issued in December 2019 and it used data from the 2016 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation. Magazines : There are several magazines dedicated to birding. If 1 in 100 birders was a member of the ABA, that would pencil out to 1.2 million birders.

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Creepers in the Forest

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As a child, poring through the pages of the Encyclopedia of Animal Life (I was gifted this 25 years before I appeared in Audubon magazine myself) birds gripped my attention. I’ve seen this bird hunting, actively denuding dead branches in pursuit of what lies beneath. Getting familiar with birds is a process.

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Tales of Remarkable Birds by Dominic Couzens

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Dominic Couzens is a prolific writer who has published tens of books on birds and birding in addition to his magazine work, but Tales of Remarkable Birds is the first of his titles that I have read. If it’s representative, I can definitely see why he’s such a popular author.

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Short

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The current header image of my own blog is another Barn Owl, this one a ringed individual I found daylight hunting, and unconcerned by the presence of my car as it hunted from posts presumably feeding young in early summer last year. Above our fireplace is a large painting of a Barn Owl.

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Why Did The National Audubon Society End Their Contract With Ted Williams?

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Never ones to let facts stand in the way of a good, old-fashioned, witch-hunt, the hordes of cat crazies heeded the call of their overlords and not only sent emails but essentially took over the National Audubon Society’s Facebook page. His views do not necessarily reflect those of the National Audubon Society.”

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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He continues with images found in illuminated manuscripts such as Catherine of Cleves’s Book of Hours and Frederick II of Germany’s On the Art of Hunting With Birds. Egyptian tomb painting depicting duck hunting in the marshes, from the eBook version of Birds and Us, © 2022, Tim Birkhead and Princeton University Press.