10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

New York City’s premiere wildlife refuge proved to be no refuge for Canada Geese on Monday morning as federal agents rounded up 711 geese – including goslings – and packed them up for a trip to upstate New York where they will be gassed and their meat will be provided to food banks.

Geese 141

Geese New York City Jamaica Slaughter 141

10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2012

New York City killed less Canada Geese this year than any year since they started rounding the geese up and slaughtering them. The cullings have happened every year since the 2009 emergency landing of a US Airways plane in the Hudson River after the plane struck geese and was disabled.

New York City 165

New York City Culling Geese Slaughter 165

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2013

But, when you receive such a call, and your supervisor agrees that you can have the rest of the day off from work as personal time, you end up showing a Snowy Owl for a very nice reporter and on then you end up on the news for NBC’s New York City affiliate.

Owls 237

Owls Killing New Jersey New York 237

10,000 Birds

JUNE 4, 2019

Fitting, since New York City and London were the centers of the millinery trade. side, the writings of New York City reformer Mary Van Kleeck. Both campaigns led to the establishment of national, influential conservation organizations–National Audubon Society in the U.S. This is good stuff.

Industry 119

Industry Virginia Portland Campaign 119

Animal Ethics

MAY 11, 2008

People who move out here from the city generally feel the same way. You report that Susan Predl, a senior biologist with the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protection, uses “distance sampling” to count the deer that managed to survive the recent county-organized, taxpayer-financed slaughter.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York New Jersey Deer 40

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

I was especially interested in “To Hide From God,” the chapter on songbird slaughter and protection in Cyprus. Has it really been 21 years (almost) from the publication of Jonathan Franzen’s New Yorker article, “ Emptying the Skies ,” six years since the documentary with the same name?

Cyprus 253

Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 253

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2023

Its goal was to limit the greedy collecting of birds killed for the plume trade, the bird meat trade (as in the wholesale slaughter of the Passenger Pigeon), and for sport (again, the Passenger Pigeon and declining numbers of waterfowl). It has become the cornerstone of U.S.

Connecticut 147

Connecticut Washington Legislation Hunting 147