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The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove

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It’s a good thing too, because it is the leading gamebird in North America in terms of total harvest and the widespread distribution of hunting effort. Use of non-toxic shot when hunting waterfowl has been mandatory, nationwide, since 1991. References: 1 Birds of North America Online , 2 Droege, S. www.youtube.com/watch?v=44fNo6B5gUI.

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The Great Horned Owl: An In-Depth Study by Scott Rashid

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Young Scott put in yeoman’s work first identifying, then attempting to photograph the birds he stumbled across while hunting rabbits with a friend, and apparently his drive has stayed with him from that day to this. He now runs the Colorado Avian Research and Rehabilitation Institute out of Estes Park.

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Snowy Owl Ethics

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Snowy Owls are at risk of getting killed via collisions, incidental poisoning from rodenticides, and even illegal hunting (Stone et al. of deaths in the same study were from gunshot wounds (Kerlinger and Lein 1988). References. 1999, Holt et al. of Snowy Owl deaths (Kerlinger and Lein 1988). Berlanga, H., Kennedy, T.

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Birding Tabin, Sabah, Borneo

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Even the name of the owls has changed: “Whereas in the past owls were collectively known as Burung Hantu (‘Ghost birds’), in the bird markets they are now commonly referred to as Burung Harry Potter (‘Harry Potter birds’)” ( source ) Poor Buffy Fish Owl.