10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? Do all hunters realize that? It gives one to wonder why this designation was made.

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 241

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2011

I will, of course, gather those responses and use them in a blog post, so make sure you indicate in your email if you want your full name used (and if you have a blog include the URL so I can link it). He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

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Brazil Wildlife 2011 Deer 179

10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2011

Besides founding 10,000 Birds and I and the Bird , Mike has also created a number of other entertaining sites and resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network. I’ve long advocated for a habitat stamp strickly for birders as some of us don’t want to be labeled as hunters. Thanks for visiting!

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2011 Deer Wildlife Birds 140

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Field sketches of yesterday’s birds are on my blog. OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! Thanks for visiting!

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2011 Deer Philadelphia New York 179

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

Third of all, the bird that was first seen on 30 October is, as of this blog posting, STILL THERE! He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. I am new to this blog and I started reading it because I thought you were interested in the environment and conservation.

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New York Woodpeckers Jordan 2011 190

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2011

Since I was mapping-in human ‘territories’ or home ranges, and trying to figure out how tropical hunter-gatherers found their way around the landscape, the mechanisms of migration were interesting to me. (It It turns out that humans without compasses make no use of magnetic fields.)

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Compassion Humane Research Egypt 190

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2014

I reduced all lines and edges to straights and curves (that’s all there are) and began to render with mechanical drawing instruments¬ ruling pen, compass, French curve, T-square, triangle. The Eskimo Curlew “ran the gauntlet of a hunter army, which stalked him from state to state to provision meat counters by the wagonload.”

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Betty Crocker 2008 Birds 2007 170

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

Jonathan Hubbell, a philosophy major at the University of Texas at Arlington, is the newest member of the Animal Ethics blog, and once again, I would like to welcome him aboard. The point is that even hunters seem to think that they need a reason to justify killing these animals. rather than a slow death from starvation."

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