10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2014
Some people think it’s just plain fun to kill enormous numbers of animals and pile up their bodies, and when there’s no “bag limit” it’s legal to do so. Obviously killing contests have nothing to do with traditional hunting, and “animal abuse” is normally used when describing domestic animals.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 20, 2014
On the same day that I journeyed out to eastern Long Island to enjoy birding Shinnecock Inlet in the fog I also explored the fields of Riverhead, where large flocks of geese congregate and where a Yellow-headed Blackbird had been reported recently amid a large flock of icterids at a Buffalo farm.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2013
There are times when acting in the conservation interest of a species or ecosystem means that the welfare of specific animals is compromised, which is a fancy way of saying that conservationists sometimes have to kill animals for the greater good. There is no solidarity among the big cats.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2012
They are not necessarily the biggest African animals, but represented those that were considered a real hunter’s worthy prey or “game” – the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Black Rhinoceros, Leopard and king of the jungle, the Lion (which of course doesn’t inhabit jungle but savanna!).
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2015
The killing of Cecil was equated with murder, a moral crime rather than a symptom of a ecological problem. So now there are lots of lions, and they like buffalo, so now there are less buffalo. And since the lions like the big buffalo and not the smaller Nyala, the Nyala have increased in numbers.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2023
One year we found an impressively big calidus Peregrine, feeding on a Wigeon that it had killed. Kerkini’s most famous mammal is the domesticated Water Buffalo – large herds are kept around the lake. Such an abundance of wildfowl attracts Peregrines. Despite appearances, they are remarkably docile.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 15, 2012
He interpreted the bones, also at Klasies but other sites in South Africa as well, to indicate that human ancestors hunted only Eland until they became fully modern very recently, then they started hunting the much more dangerous and harder to hunt Buffalo. Any buffalo bones from prior to that transition were obviously scavenged.
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