2017 Hunters Hunting 
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 16, 2022
The various national versions of Ducks Unlimited are mostly an outgrowth of sports hunting. In 2017, I saw the results of one of DUMAC’s surveys. and Canada, but also in Latin American wintering grounds. (It and Canada, but also in Latin American wintering grounds.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2017
Illustration for Sophie Webb’s “Why I Love to Draw Birds” © 2017 by Robert A. Illustration for Ioana Seritan’s “More Than Skin Deep: Working in the Prep Lab at the Museum of Vertebrate Zoology” © 2017 by Robert A. Braunfield. Used by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 7, 2017
Even when hunting in sub-freezing temperatures on the edge of the Mongolian border or doing her chores around the family ger (yurt) in the isolated Altai Mountains, Aisholpan beams. It’s constructed in three acts: Home, Festival, Hunting. Significantly, The Eagle Huntress begins with an older eagle hunter releasing his Golden Eagle.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 23, 2022
The main attraction for birders here are the hornbills – I have written about them before , so this post will be more on the other birds I saw there in 2017. The photos of Sultan Tit that I got at Hongbenghe in 2017 were much better than the ones I got on Hainan in 2022. Birds should be free. A worrying trend.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2017
Broome’s tide chart for 2017 is here. It was hunting season and the men appeared to be mostly targeting the Eurasian Wigeon. At the car-park there is a trail that many of the hunters use and also birders, but it is risky! Common Eider were visibly feeding as the water dropped back from the causeway.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 7, 2017
Hunting: You may have noticed that the Written Species Accounts include a section on hunting. I am a city girl and until I became a birder my contact with hunting was limited to occasionally seeing dead deer on the tops of cars in upstate New York. So–not a fan of hunting. I was really taken aback when I saw this.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 14, 2018
The argument is straightforward: birders (and others, including hunters) buy stamps and the federal government turns around and obtains important bird habitat. In fiscal year 2017 , funds available to the MBCF totaled about $87 million. In June, the 2018-2019 Federal Duck Stamp was released.
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