10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2014

My initial reaction was, “Really, dude, of all the birds that you’re allowed to have in Wisconsin, you choose the bird that is going to make birders who don’t understand falconry angry?” If anything, falconry birds like the above red-tailed hawk are a hunting partner, especially wild caught birds.

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Wisconsin Falcons Owls Hunting 251

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

The film is produced by the Cornell Lab or Ornithology, but it is clear from the start that its driving force is Neil Rettig, a well-respected award-winning nature cinematographer who keeps a Harpy Eagle in his Wisconsin barn and who first filmed the Philippine Eagle over 36 years ago. Preventing Philippine Eagle hunting: what are we missing?

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Eagles Philippines Eggs Birds 203

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

Done properly, a young hawk is curtailed in a growing compulsion to fly greater distances and hunt for herself by a process sometimes called “manning.” ” Cade was later to comment, “1951 was when I first saw the high-flying style of hunting performed by the wilderness-inhabiting Peregrines of Alaska.”

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 190

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

And so, Fuller embarked on a new initiative—locating and researching photographs of lost birds and, expanding his scope, of mammals. Passenger Pigeon chick in aviary, 1896, photographer’s identification uncertain, photo now property of the Historical Society of Wisconsin, p. —more than there really was to see!” (p.

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Animal Mammals Hawaii Dolphins 270