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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
Each chapter of The Jewel Hunter reads like a mini-travel novel. If you want to travel the world birding and drinking beer, The Jewel Hunter is a must-buy. And sun bears. The Jewel Hunter belongs to a singular niche, the Big Year/Big Lifelist book. The books work best when the birding is coupled with the human element.
Critter News
AUGUST 24, 2010
A declawed, defanged bear is chained to a stake as hunting dogs bark and snap, trying to force the bear to stand on its hind legs. The training exercise called bear baying is intended to make the bears easier to shoot in the wild and it's only allowed in South Carolina. State law on the issue is murky.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2012
But the grasslands of eastern Montana bear a resemblance to their wildlife that goes beyond the mere evolutionary imperative of camoflauge. The cottonwoods in the river bottoms echo the branching antlers of the elk that bugle among them each falls (abundant, but never enough so for Montana’s voracious hunters.)
10,000 Birds
APRIL 29, 2024
Even the review has some interesting information – for example, a major predator of eagle nests is the Brown Bear. It is even more specific, stating that brown bears depredate 20 % of offspring on Sakhalin Island (but not on the mainland).
10,000 Birds
JULY 6, 2021
In 2012, I reviewed The Jewel Hunter , an absorbing narrative in which author Chris Goodie travelled throughout Asia, Africa, and Australasia to observe and photograph every Pitta species in the world. A passion for one bird family is also very useful. The geographic extremes provide the framework for this natural history narrative.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 26, 2016
At 3-4 inches long , they rival those of the great Grizzly Bear, and allow the Harpy Eagles to go after prey unavailable to many other birds. ” While they can live in human-modified environments, they are threatened both by deforestation and hunting, and less than 50,000 remain in the wild. A Harpy Eagle. ”
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
This almost certainly can be argued to be true just on the basis of logic, because feral Cats are proficient hunters and are entirely out of ecological place. In North America, you’ve got Bears at the large end, Cats in the middle, and at the smaller end, the Mustilids. Let me tell you this: They are. They are invasive species.
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