10,000 Birds
AUGUST 3, 2011
Seattle’s Discovery Park, a 534-acre jewel on Puget Sound, is described in A Birder’s Guide to Washington as “Seattle’s best one-stop birding venue&# so, clearly, a visit there is in order. The Varied Thrush that spent this past winter in Central Park, the only example of the species I have seen.
Critter News
DECEMBER 29, 2009
From the Seattle PI: The killing of about seven elk cornered in a farm pasture in eastern Skagit County has spurred state officials to close the elk archery season in the area and angered others who either witnessed or heard about the killings. Even other hunters were disgusted: "How can you call that hunting?"
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Critter News
JANUARY 15, 2010
From the Seattle P-I: A Japanese psychiatrist with a home in Seattle is facing poaching and gun-possession charges following allegations that he poached several black bears and tried to smuggle gallbladders back to Japan. So, it's not just rednecks in Washington State who are doing this.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 21, 2012
Interesting to learn, for example, that in 1885 more than five million birds were killed in the United States for the millinery industry, and that in 1904 market hunters in Oregon killed over 120 tons of waterfowl for the restaurant trade in San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle.
Critter News
MARCH 19, 2012
From the Seattle PI. A federal government decision to allow a Wyoming tribe to kill two bald eagles for a religious ceremony is a victory for American Indian sovereignty as well as for long-suppressed religious freedoms, the tribe says.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2011
Alex Washoe is a freelance writer and bookseller in Seattle, WA. The result is the same though — loose Flicker and plenty of fun hunting him down. who can be found regularly at the bird and wildlife blog Birdland West. Last time, Alex asked us to Consider the Chickadee. I dare you not to duck when that happens!
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
Molly Hashimoto is an illustrator, birder, and teacher (she teaches plein air watercolor painting and printmaking at nature institutes near her native Seattle), and in Birds of the West: An Artist’s Guide she masterfully brings all skills into play.
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