10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2022

Today, Barn Owls can be found across both islands, hunting open fields at twilight or comfortably resting in abandoned relics of the sugar cane industry. Visitors to the Caroni Bird Sanctuary can often see a pair roosting together in the mangrove. I couldn’t believe it. Tropical Screech-Owl.

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Trinidad Owls Barn Owls Abandon 273

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

This is brought about by a visit to Karori Wildlife Sanctuary/Zealandia, where I was able to catch up with the ducklings that I first saw back in the spring. They are the only endemic duck species that hunting is permitted for, in fact, the other species being either too rare or outright extinct.

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New Zealand Sanctuary Suffering Ducks 156

Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

A major review of Japanese government spending could spell the end to whaling in the Southern Ocean Whale Sanctuary, according to Greenpeace, after the review committee proposed massive cuts in subsidies to a body which funds the so-called scientific research programme. Tags: Japan hunting greenpeace whaling.

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Whales Whaling Japan Sanctuary 100

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.

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Whales Whaling International Fund For Animal Welfare IFAW 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2016

Accordingly, FWS manages with conservation as its primary priority and compatible wildlife-dependent recreation (hunting, fishing, wildlife observation and photography, environmental education and interpretation) as a secondary priority. Other activities are only permitted if compatible and, in practice, most are prohibited.

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Wildlife Grizzly Bear Puerto Rico United States 189

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2019

Matt was working on his own US Big Year, and wanted to join me for the hunt. Murray Hunt – Daintree River Guide Caines, Australia – Boatman@daintreerivertours.com.au. Andres Chinchilla – Guide at Alexander Skutch Bird Sanctuary, Costa Rica. Not just any warbler mind you, but a Rufous-capped Warbler. Nick Coetzee – South Africa.

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Costa Rica Tucson South Africa Bahamas 131

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

North of Dunedin is Orokonui , a wildlife Sanctuary modeled on Karori with a fence to keep introduced mammals out. Wellington Visitors to New Zealand’s capital have an opportunity to see wild kiwi without even leaving the city thanks to the innovative Karori Wildlife Sanctuary/Zealandia. You really are spoiled here.

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New Zealand Penguins Sanctuary Birds 157

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2013

In the 21st century the Egyptian Vulture is an extinct species in Serbia; although we do occasionally have one bird in the Uvac Gorge Griffon Vulture Sanctuary and hope that it might form a pair… Ever since I published a note on the unseen species, I wanted to see it – but the bird was nowhere to be found.

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Sudan Macedonia Botswana Serbia 224

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2014

I don’t ski, or hunt, and I sadly haven’t been to the tropical Pacific for a while. I go to my local sanctuary when the weather is nice, where I see the same twenty or so birds each time. The more rural shoot pigs, deer and ducks. But I have been birding, and reasonably regularly too.

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New Zealand Australia Albatross Pigs 140

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 178

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2019

I finally caught this one in the Alexander Skutch Bird Sanctuary. In Caines, Australia, we enjoyed a wet morning on the Daintree River, with Murray Hunt, of the Dain Tree River Tours. This bird is 3 inches long, lives in the darkest part of the jungle understory of Costa Rica, and never sits still!

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2018 Costa Rica South Africa New Zealand 159

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Sandhill Crane Hunt in Kentucky?! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public comment on a proposal to hunt sandhill cranes in Kentucky. Kentucky Dept.

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2011 Kentucky Tennessee Hunting 245

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

With the proposed hunting seasons on sandhill cranes being discussed in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin, we must not forget the whooping crane, which travels and winters in the big sandhill crane flocks. More states will doubtless join the queue of those proposing hunts. Another thing to consider. Now, it’s time to go to the top.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 242

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Sharp-shinned Hawks, Cooper’s Hawks, Bald Eagles, Golden Eagles, Merlin and Peregrine, amongst others, dazzled the crowds on this, one of the busiest weekends at this important sanctuary. The sanctuary has a tumultuous history that dates back to the time of the Great Depression.

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Bald Eagle Pennsylvania Sanctuary Hunters 256

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 3, 2015

Habitat destruction, disease and hunting are still major problems that affect the conservation efforts, but the breeding sites and wintering grounds now have international protection. In Taiwan, two major sanctuaries have been allocated as part of the spoonbill recovery program.

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Taiwan North Korea Vietnam 2003 225

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

Kitsissunnguit Is Greenland’s Bird Sanctuary. The eider is the most common bird for hunting and eating, it lives near all of Greenland’s coasts and breeds on small islands such as Kitsissunnguit. Source: Shutterstock ). Rock Ptarmigans are Greenland’s only gallinaceas and are found in all types of terrains.

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North America Eagles Breeding Fish 176

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

Not only were they a common bird, they were a common bird nearshore; indigenous peoples hunted them up and down the coast. However, these islands that were predator-free sanctuaries eventually turned into ecological sinks.

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Albatross Endangered Species Geese Alaska 203

10,000 Birds

APRIL 30, 2011

A big moon gives enough light for the gulls to hunt by, so the shearwaters seldom come onto land while the full moon is up. The parents now desert the burrow and the chick, leaving it to the harsh realities of life beyond its sanctuary below the ground.

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United Kingdom Brazil Eggs Abandon 160

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2013

So you’ll have to wait till next year for me to post more rambling and incoherent thoughts about hunting or how I managed to not see a single pitta in Borneo. It’s been a good year for shags in Karori Wildlife Sanctuary. This Australasian Harrier was hunting in front of Mt Ruhapehu. These are Australian Pied Shags.

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New Zealand Hunting Sanctuary Ducks 166

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Now that the colony is off limits for hunting, the population has grown and the village is benefitting tremendously from entry and guide fees, and a school is being built courtesy of conservation funds.

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Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 191

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2023

After not even an hour in position, I noticed a flycatcher hunting about twenty metres away. Summer Tanager On a boating trip to an island sanctuary on the east coast of Trinidad, we were treated to excellent views of three species of kingfisher. Previously I had only seen this species twice, and both were males.

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Trinidad Bats 2020 Sanctuary 222