article thumbnail

“The Hawk’s Way” — a book review

10,000 Birds

In training, the falconer must never think of rewards and punishments, Nancy Cowan (pictured below, with her Harris’s hawk, Scoter), tells her: “They don’t serve us. As Montgomery shows, falconry is different from any other human/animal interaction. We serve them.”.

article thumbnail

Birding Kabul, Afghanistan

10,000 Birds

Legend has it that anyone who kills one of these pigeons will go blind – for once, a superstition I highly appreciate and which I wish we could expand to all other bird species as well. We will establish a series of online workshops, trainings, and seminars for young women. The second, even more pressing area is female education.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

Trending Sources

article thumbnail

Future Serial Killer in Training?

Critter News

I read an article last week about a series of cat killings and mutilations (20 total) in south Florida. Just awful. Now they've arrested an 18-year-old suspect named Tyler Hayes Weinman. He's charged with 19 counts of animal cruelty, 19 counts of improperly disposing of an animal body and four counts of burglary.

article thumbnail

Angry Birds, What’s Black and White and Hungry All Over, and a Little Something for the Ladies: This Week in Bird News

10,000 Birds

If there’s one common theme to this week’s bird news items, it’s their collective bizarreness: The eagle has landed—on the drone, as France trains birds to take out drones that stray into restricted airspace. Scientists ponder the feasibility of genetically engineering chickens to lay the eggs of endangered bird species.

Penguins 100
article thumbnail

Birding Balangshan, Sichuan, China (part 1)

10,000 Birds

This makes these sections ideal for birding, with a much-reduced risk of being killed by a passing truck. (We Some apparently have been trained by the local electricity companies to inspect the equipment. The driver later had a rather simple explanation – “I dozed off”). A juvenile.

China 261
article thumbnail

This Week in Bird(ing) News: Orange Is the New Beak, and a Dead Parrot (No Joke!)

10,000 Birds

Know what else kills grassland birds? Then you might benefit from a new program training birding guides. If you’ve got some downtime between barbecues and fireworks (or, outside of the U.S., Ill-timed mowing … which a petition aims to stop in New York’s Hudson Valley. Meanwhile, in San Jose, Calif., Planning on birding Kenya?

San Jose 160
article thumbnail

Releasing White Doves

10,000 Birds

They are highly trained homing pigeons, which is why it costs more to hire a company that will deliver this type of bird, and to make sure they are released correctly. Ethical businesses post notices on their websites stating that unless the released birds are properly trained and conditioned, they will not survive.