10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2015

Nyala are much appreciated by hunters and tourists, which has led to their being introduced to many parks and reserves around Southern Africa outside their natural range. The crest on the back becomes erect during breeding displays. The delicate markings if two male Nyala. A female Nyala in Imfolozi.

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Africa Wolves Goats Sheep 209

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MAY 19, 2021

And breeding season allows me to notice certain details that I might miss during the rest of the year. I had never seen the orange legs that this breeding adult is showing, as opposed to the yellow-green legs of the immature one below it. Green Herons can probably be seen by most of our readers on their home turf.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Marshes are the habitats with the greatest species richness in moderate zones, also significant as breeding, wintering and migratory stopover sites for birds; it therefore comes as no surprise that this one is among the 10,000 Important Bird Areas of the World (one per each bird species?). Oenanthe oenanthe. Northern Wheatear.

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Greece Serbia Hunters Cows 237

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The Green-winged Teal ( Anas crecca carolinensis ) is North America’s smallest dabbling duck and taken by hunters second only to the Mallard. Luckily for them, even though they nest on the ground, they usually breed far from human habitation, under heavy vegetative cover. Click on photos for full sized images.

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Ducks North America Hunters California 194

10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2011

As is often the case in birds, teenagers, and other living creatures, these charismatic colors play a prominent role in the booby’s breeding rituals. They are daring divers, powerful underwater swimmers, and cooperative hunters. Basically, lady boobies love knocking the brightest blue boots.

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Ecuador Peru Hunters Pelicans 226

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

These conditions offered easy access to hunters in a habitat where a bird as large as a Guan would have little chances to hide or scape. A captive breeding program was established with a facility at Gustavo del Solar’s property, not far from where the birds were re-discovered. Birds hatched in captivity have been re-introduced.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Black Stork and three pairs of White-tailed Eagles breed here. Other birds of the Rusanda are Great Bittern , Purple Heron , Eurasian Spoonbill , Meadow and rare Red-throated Pipit , Icterine Warbler , Eurasian Penduline Tit , Lesser Gray Shrike , breeding Red-footed Falcon , Little and Long-eared Owls , etc. eBird bar chart. #2

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? Another 170 are in captivity, many of them breeding stock for reintroduction efforts. What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird?

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 244

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2012

Suspecting they still occurred, we went to considerable effort searching unsuccessfully for picathartes, our suspicions all but confirmed when several hunters I interviewed said they knew the bird and claimed they still existed. Then a few years ago the news broke that picathartes had been rediscovered in Ghana at a community forest reserve!

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Sierra Leone Ghana Equatorial Guinea Cameroon 274

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2024

Meadow Pipits are abundant breeding birds on the moors Romaldkirk produced most of the village birds we could expect: there were House Martins and Swifts, Chaffinches and House Sparrows, plus Jackdaws on the church (which dates from Saxon times, more than a thousand years ago).

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2011

Or The Hunter Becomes The Hunted What am I talking about? After all, Shell-billed Sandpiper must be closely related so maybe we can get a captive breeding program going and then backcross the results later and save the spoonie? Or Why Eating Raw Seafood Is Dangerous Or Ouch! That Looks Like It Smarts! Great idea, no?

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Hunters Hunting Breeding Rights 160

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

According to the US Fish and Wildlife Service , there are about 10 billion breeding birds in the US. The maximum population size may be closer to 20 billion in the fall, and 10 billion at the start of the Spring breeding season. I can confirm that other sources I’ve read give similar numbers.

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Killing Cats Fish Feral Cats 274

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2011

The whistling duck call carries with it the crimes of big business, the failures of governments and the ignorance of irresponsible hunters. But, as with so many other species, these birds have been left to do their own whistle blowing. West Indian Whistling Ducks are the largest of the eight different whistling duck species.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2014

I was chatting with Gordon about this and we discussed how drones could be a safer way to get photos of birds or document birds for breeding surveys, but he was quick to point out, “You and I already have an idea of what a safe distance would be to test that out with an active bald eagle nest.

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Bald Eagle Mississippi Eagles Ducks 236

10,000 Birds

JUNE 29, 2013

Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. There you will find more breeding terns, gulls and dozens of Graylag Geese. Between finishing one graduate program and begining another, he embarked on a whirlwind tour of Europe.

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Iceland Puffins Europe Birds 236

10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2016

For example, years ago, Eiton Tchenrov postulated that the wild progenitor of the domestic dog, some subspecies or another of wolf, could benefit from overlapping its breeding territory with human hunters. The humans tended to keep away a range of predators that might take the pups as a form of interference competition.

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Alligators Leopards Protection Rabbits 155

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The length of each bird species account varies, depending on whether the bird is native or a “visitor” (the book’s term for migrant) or vagrant, breeding or non breeding. They breed in dense colonies, incubate their single egg on the feet, and take more than a year to fledge a chick.

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Georgia Penguins Wildlife Whaling 184

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

Finally in 1799, the first visitors on this volcanic land were a group of French seal hunters who were after the fur seals that can be found hauled out on the beaches for fur and oil, which almost wiped out the local population of the species. About half of all breeding Wandering Albatross nest on the Prince Edward Islands.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2016

Although quite a few species will have a second brood ( European Starlings among them), in the lowlands, mid-June is the end of the breeding season for many small passerines. They normally breed inside roof spaces of tall buildings and neither of us has observed them using clay cliffs.

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Abandonment Abandon Abandoning Serbia 187

10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2011

The little stiff-tails are almost year-round at Jamaica Bay though almost all leave to breed in the summer and in the depths of winter, when the ponds are almost completely frozen, they tend to head for open water. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

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Ducks 2011 Jamaica Deer 172

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2017

Strictly speaking, they were always forbidden for driving, but there is a difference between me, driving along the very top of the dyke and collecting scientific data for the first national breeding birds atlas and someone exploring the possibilities of his flashy new 4×4 while driving figures of eight along the embankment slopes.

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Rights Serbia Abandonment Abandon 155

Critter News

AUGUST 22, 2010

In 2000, around 1,000 breeding pairs were known, but by 2009, the number had plummeted to just 120-220 pairs, a decline of 88%. During that time, adult survival appeared unchanged and breeding success was reasonable, but the recruitment of young birds back into the adult population was zero in all but one of the years studied. "The

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Habitat destruction combined with hunting has pushed them away from their former breeding grounds. In breeding season grazing cattle may walk through the nest, breaking the eggs, while wild and domestic pigs may eat both eggs and chicks. Bustards are very susceptible to any kind of disturbance and, naturally, hunters like to shoot.

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DECEMBER 15, 2015

I spent a lot of time with Efe Pygmy hunters in the deep forest, and I spent a certain amount of time either entirely alone or with only one other researcher, this or that American. But in the absence of Efe Pygmy hunters, we ran into ground mammals much more frequently, and not because we were doing a better job of sneaking around.

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MARCH 17, 2011

The variety of plumages that they show and the way different individuals molt at different times is interesting to me and I have stopped being surprised at seeing a small flock of ruddies with some nearly in full breeding, or alternate plumage, while others are still in their basic, or non-breeding plumage.

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JULY 11, 2012

But you can take solace in the results at the end of the breeding year, when loafing around the intertidal are a shiny new cohort of finely plumage grey youngsters, all ready to carry on Western Gull line into the future. Western Gull chick.

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Animal Rights Rights Animal New Zealand 270

10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2024

Another danger to the species comes from lead poisoning as they eat the carcasses of deer killed by hunters ( source ). The eagles do not breed on Hokkaido, spending only a few winter months there – so if you want to see courtship displays as described in here , you have to go further North a bit later in the year.

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Eagles Sea Lions Bears Russia 134

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2014

Joseph Chiera is a Masters student in Animal Behavior and Conservation at Hunter College in NYC and a “somewhat newbie” to birding. Finland is a great place to see a variety of different species, many of which flock to the north to take advantage of the extended daylight during the breeding season.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 11, 2019

An asphalt road passes by the eastern pond, the site of the breeding colony of Black-headed Gulls , in some years with a pair or two of Mediterranean Gulls among them. Still, local hunters shoot waterfowl here, so be extra careful from September to February, especially on weekends. There are three large ponds and several smaller.

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Serbia New Jersey Europe Hunters 199

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

When I showed a photo of the Blood Pheasant to a German hunter, he complained that this pheasant has “no tail” And eBird calls it a “chunky partridgelike pheasant” – same gist, I guess. In winter, Blood Pheasants form flocks that are relatively harmonious inside but may fight with other flocks.

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Kansas City Kansas Livestock Eggs 130

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2011

Though breeding grounds for neotropical migrants get the bulk of attention in North America wintering grounds are just as critical, and any news about land being preserved as wintering habitat for the Cerulean Warbler is wonderful. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B.

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Colombia Deer 2011 Brazil 145

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2015

million breeding birds, Greater Roadrunners have a stable population (according to Partners in Flight). Car collisions, feral cats, and run-ins with hunters also cause problems, even for this speed-racer. Feasting on poisonous critters doesn’t seem to bother them, and they are known to eat carrion as well as seeds and nuts.

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New Mexico Mexico Coyotes Feral Cats 106

10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2024

Lead shot injured and killed condors young and old, lead in the carrion they ate, lead in the bullets that hunters shot at them. I ended up looking for photographs of Peregrine hack sites, captive breeding aviaries, Hawaii tropical forest, and the California Condors of the Grand Canyon on the Internet.

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California Condor Falcons California Coyotes 183

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 16, 2015

On our first morning after breakfast, my group and the teens piled onto a boat and headed out to Eastern Egg Rock, once again the breeding ground for Atlantic Puffins (as well as a host of other seabirds) thanks to biologist Dr. Stephen Kress.

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Puffins Birds Groups West Virginia 277

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2016

” Panama hosts the largest breeding population of Harpy Eagles, though they were once “found from southern Mexico through Central and South America all the way down to northern Argentina.” These eagles are known to take down Howler Monkeys, baby deer, and sloths, just to name a few of their favorite meals.

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Panama Grizzly Bear Porcupines Monkeys 103

4 The Love Of Animals

AUGUST 2, 2010

It’s no accident that dogs evolved this way, as humans have been selectively breeding them for around 14,000 years to serve our needs as laborer, companion, hunter, herder and warrior, as well as to suit our aesthetic fancy. Here are three video sneak peeks! “

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4 The Love Of Animals

MARCH 3, 2010

My second favorite rescue story is that of Hunter, a beagle-ish dog that my daughter and son-in-law adopted from a shelter in Massachusetts. Turns out even though they knew that Hunter had found his forever home, he didn’t know it. The work of shelters and breed rescue organizations is vital. The destruction was profound.

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Pit Bulls Feral Cats Massachusetts Rescue 100