10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2014
Some people think it’s just plain fun to kill enormous numbers of animals and pile up their bodies, and when there’s no “bag limit” it’s legal to do so. Obviously killing contests have nothing to do with traditional hunting, and “animal abuse” is normally used when describing domestic animals.
10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2022
I put it in a small box for several hours, where it appeared to recover, but studies have shown that internal injuries from a strike usually kill the bird. Sarkis Acopian Professor of Ornithology and Conservation Biology at Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, is concerned. The more glass, the more bird kills.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 19, 2011
For 13 years now, friends and family have been gathering in an undisclosed corner of Potter County, Pennsylvania during the third weekend of July to create a glorious giant chicken of wood, straw, and gunpowder only to burn it. Over the years, I’ve chronicled an apparent decline in the numbers of the birds hanging around the kill-zone.
10,000 Birds
MAY 9, 2016
We headed north to the George Washington Bridge, west across New Jersey, west and then north through Pennsylvania, and back into New York at Binghamton where we turned west once again. The long drive back to New York was filled by more lousy, incidental eBird checklists, more fast food, and more road kill.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 27, 2013
Seed eaters looking for the next kill. I left my Pennsylvania home ’bout a quarter to four. You may argue that they don’t wreak the same havoc with the indigenous species as do the two aforementioned invasives, but that would be a rather avicentric view. Willets used to nest here. Then came the Chukars. An ABA Code 2.
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 31, 2011
26), Seamus McGraw says he has a responsibility to kill deer because there are too many. He has volunteered to kill a deer cruelly, ineptly and with an outdated weapon that causes additional suffering to the deer. I’m tired of hearing people who enjoy killing justify it with specious moral platitudes. Animals suffer when killed.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 4, 2014
There were birders from a wide cross-section of the United States: Colorado, Ohio, Idaho, Iowa, Wyoming, Washington State, Pennsylvania, New York State, New Jersey, California, Texas, Florida. The leopards place their kill in a tree, protecting it from poaching by other predators. So, the best way to find a leopard is to find the kill.
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