10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

As I am already familiar with CL Companion, ELs and NLs, as well as the ATS/STX scopes, now I had a chance to try those toys I am not familiar with, such as hunting EL Range binoculars with built-in electronics telling the user the distance and an azimuth angle (interesting, but I still prefer my binoculars without batteries).

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2022

As late as 1963, Higgins says, there were various theories that sought to explain the hunting prowess of owls – smell, night vision, the ability to detect body heat. Now, we know that owl hearing is extraordinarily acute, able to perceive the faintest rustlings of a vole under heavy snow.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 6, 2022

Apparently , the function is to reduce glare from sunlight and thus to increase the success in hunting. And the bonus mammal of the post is the Siberian Weasel (Chongming). If you prefer to end this post with music rather than a mammal, here are a few more recommendations. Who would have thought?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Africa is famous for its large, charismatic mammals, and the Big Five epitomize the most sought-after of these fantastic beasts. Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. This blog post will discuss both the Big and Little members of these quintuplets.

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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. But now a French scientist has said the majestic mammals - which can reach 80ft in length and weigh the same as a passenger jet - could also suffer from heartbreak.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2020

Drifting slower and looking closer, we observed a tiny Malachite Kingfisher hunting in the sheltered shallows. Ubiquitous Egyptian Geese dabbled in the shallows while a diminutive Squacco Heron stood motionless in some tangled vegetation over the water. Squacco Heron. This tiny kingfisher thoroughly excited everyone on board.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2012

Birds are a long way down a cat’s food chain so well-fed cats tend not to hunt at all, he says. Birds are, with reptiles amphibians, and mammals, the prey that feral cats kill. And cats, regardless of the amount of food provided for them, hunt instinctually. Feral cats kill huge numbers of birds.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

BLUE whales, the world’s largest animals, are reappearing in parts of the oceans where hunting once wiped them out, signalling that they may finally be returning from the brink of extinction. And here's some good news for today.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

A shot or two coming from the opposite bank, but they do not sound like geese shooting – more like boar hunting. A goose hunt sounds like a WWII battle. The only mammals of the day were feral Nutrias (Coypus), aquatic rodents originally from southern South America released from the bankrupt fur-farms and well established here.

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Critter News

APRIL 21, 2009

And this is despite the bad press received by the annual seal hunts. Many diners are huge fans of its taste, describing the mammal's meat as somewhere between duck and veal. Definitely a niche market ,but demand has been increasing.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2013

What put this once small fishing town on the map was not birds but mammals, specifically whales and dolphins. Being a convenient stop between the ferry town of Picton and the city of Christchurch didn’t hurt, but it was the chance to get up close and personal with marine mammals that turned the place into a popular tourist destination.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The answer should be obvious to anyone familiar with wildfowl hunting in the US and the film Jerry McGuire – money. If you want to have the “thrill” of shooting a wild lion (not a canned hunt), well, you’re going to need a lot of land to sustain those lions. Managing areas for hunting does exactly that.

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Critter News

JANUARY 2, 2009

The amendments to the Marine Mammal Regulations, which include strengthened federal enforcement, come just over a month after newly appointed federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea said Canada is "going straight ahead for the 2009 hunt. Trying to put a humane face on a barbaric practice. We're proceeding as usual." "No

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10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2016

The gamekeeper drives by, I wave my greetings but do not mention the jackals I am observing at the moment: this animal is not protected in Serbia and is allowed for killing year-round (one may say “hunting” instead, but I am having problems trying to spot the difference). All this happens less than a mile from the nearest houses.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Lost Animals is a book about what was lost and witnesses to the loss—how the bird or mammal was viewed, often for the last time, through the lens of a camera. And so, Fuller embarked on a new initiative—locating and researching photographs of lost birds and, expanding his scope, of mammals. more than there really was to see!” (p.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 9, 2016

The Aruban Burrowing Owl hunts primarily from the ground, hopping and running after lizards, insects, and small mammals. They hunt both during the day and into the night, making spotting one more likely. Unfortunately, due to development and other pressure on their populations, their numbers in Aruba have been falling.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 22, 2014

Ribbon Snakes are small slender creatures with excellent vision for diurnal hunting. They are commonly associated with water and can often be found in or close to ponds where their light weight barely disturbs the water lilies as they move across them.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Of course, we did, soaking in that slate blue beauty long enough to observe a successful hunt and more of its rangy, awkward flight. Our primeval quarry flashed that cold, knowing smile and flew off, daring us to track it down for better looks. The mighty Shoebill.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 6, 2017

They have adapted a form of communal living, to the point of cooperative hunting techniques. This way of hunting has proven to be very successful, as sometimes there are as many as 7 birds all working together. There are three subspecies of Harris Hawks: The P.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

When I reached the levee earlier that morning, I met an elderly hunter from whom I learned that there was an ongoing duck and pheasant hunt, but no one was shooting from, nor towards the embankment, hence I should be safe there. Photographed within Beljarica: six wild boars by Snezana Panjkovic.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

New Zealand has been the recipient of a higher than average number of introduced species, in particular a range of mammals from elk to mice. This is quite a big deal for an island group that had no mammals save bats for millions of years. This is a very serious business here in New Zealand.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2013

Mammals Ethiopia Gelada' they are the most terrestrial primate after humans. However the major factor is due to the rapid human population expansion in Ethiopia that has meant that cultivation (even in national parks!) A male Gelada mock attacks a female. Photo by Adam Riley.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

Now and then individual catfish of various species hunt nearer the surface and larger catfish such as the American Channel Cat will take a duck or other water bird. So, the modal catfish is a fish that hunts from below, can take large prey, and occasionally eats a bird. As noted, the fish-like mammals do this as well.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Pale-mandibled Aracari by Luke Seitz Taste, touch and smell in birds are generally considered to be weaker than these same senses in mammals. Most appear to have a very limited sense of smell and mammals appear to have better developed olfactory glands. Sword-billed Hummingbird , Colombia Bills come in all shapes and sizes.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 13, 2017

Last week I wrote about the interesting hunting habits of our local Harris’s Hawks. Given the scavenger feeding habits of the Turkey Vultures , the small mammals and birds that are on the menu for the Zone-tailed hawks are lulled into complacency by the lack of threat from the vultures.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

When you throw the feral Cat in there, not only do they push out the indigenous wild carnivores, but they are hunting animals that are not quite adapted to avoiding them as well as they may be to avoiding other animals. billion mammals annually. Mammals cats Invasive Species Week' billion birds and 6.9–20.7

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

There were Northern Harriers hunting low over what portions are as of yet unmowed, Cooper’s Hawks using some of the berms as cover for sneak attacks, and American Kestrel feasting on cold grasshoppers. They do the entire landfill every-other-year instead of doing half each year. I don’t know.).

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

This is partly due to hunting in China, where about 90% of the species winter (HBW). Tianmashan bonus mammal: a Raccoon Dog – though it looks a lot like a raccoon, it is actually more closely related to foxes than to raccoons. And it does not even live in reeds. The White’s Thrush will keep pretending to be a reptile.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2016

It’s the boar hunting season. The next morning is for the Kerkini Lake, one of the youngest national parks of Greece, protected only ten years ago, in 2006 and inhabited by 11 amphibian, 27 reptilian, 44 mammal and 312 bird species. One Grey-headed Woodpecker flies across the road – a promising start. Should I add, a lifer, too.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2011

There was also a mammal jawbone in the pellet too. I wasn’t as interested in the mammal jawbone, but it totally piqued his interest. Great horneds are known as the “Tiger of the Woods&# because they’ll hunt anything and they are good at it, but they are slow and stealthy. Was that a cardinal beak?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2015

The Common Buzzards , for example, who usually hunt by circling high above the landscape, will hover in kestrel fashion much more frequently. The kestrels , on the other hand, will more frequently hunt from low perches. Sometimes, red foxes can even be observed hunting during the day when rodents and fox babies are plentiful.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2012

Unfortunately, developers are hungrily eying the 70-acre parcel despite some local opposition and the fact that it is a wetland that provides excellent habitat to a variety of birds (to say nothing of mammals, insects, etc).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2011

It is found from northern California to British Columbia though it formerly ranged must further east before it was hunted out of its eastern haunts. If you liked this post and want to see more great images of mammals and other creatures make sure to check out 10,000 Clicks , our big (and growing) page of galleries here at 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

There were no mammals, little game, and not many birds either. Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. Part of the world they wanted to transport was natural. The Eurasian Blackbird was not found in new Zealand before man, but it is now.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

With help from federal grants, state agencies, supportive legislators, and a devoted, knowledgeable staff, the Meadowlands slowly becomes a habitable place for birds, mammals, and other wildlife, a place where people can go to enjoy beauty in the middle of the densest populated area in the country.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2015

In particular, birds that hang around with humans who don’t happen to hunt or eat them can become very tame. Part of that research was to document human avoidance by ground mammals, and that was stark and apparent. Presumably the humans keep away the predators. We simply were not perceived, I think, as a danger.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

Great Frigatebirds engage in “unihemispheric sleep” on hunting trips of six to ten days, never landing, sleeping less than an hour in a 24-hour cycle, often keeping one-half of their brain awake while the other slept. Pause while we all try to imagine what our lives would be like if we could do that.)

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