10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
And though the satellite transmitter let Machi be tracked it did not protect it from the hunters’ guns. Suggestions to start a campaign to protect shorebirds from hunters as they migrate through the Caribbean would be appreciated in the comments. Machi was, of course, only one bird.
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. The Jewel Hunter belongs to a singular niche, the Big Year/Big Lifelist book. The Jewel Hunter can be frustrating in this respect. And mosquitos. And leeches.
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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. Conservation efforts continue and now include education and awareness campaign among the local communities that own the land were the Guans still occur.
10,000 Birds
JULY 20, 2017
Yet, I was there with journalists every other day, the site was in the media almost every day and the first effect of the Save the Belgrade Amazon campaign is now visible: quite unusual for Serbia, the rules are strictly applied. Cover photo : White Hunter Black Heart, 1990. Otherwise, you feel like your gut’s full of puss.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 8, 2019
Wind turbines have been proposed several times for areas close to the BSBO – one of the great bird flyways on the continent — and the Kaufmans ( and their colleagues ) have spent a great deal of time and energy campaigning against them. Kaufman knows that duck hunters can be ardent, loving conservationists, too.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2018
My mind wandering off: A century ago, birding meant hunting birds and we stole the term from hunters – it may be time to steal another one: “Lord John came abreast of me, however, and his face was more grave than was his wont. So, where’s a sportsman’s challenge there? He had his Zeiss glasses in his hand. Back to gulls.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
Fuller’s astonishment at locating this “grail of extinct-bird photograph hunters” is contagious. It’s a lot harder to ignore conservation campaigns to save habitat when you’ve seen the ‘photographic record’ of what happens when you do. It’s almost as good as finding the bird itself!
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