Collecting Culling Killing 
10,000 Birds
JUNE 8, 2024
After being killed they were plucked and salted for consumption during the winter. Kittiwakes are the noisiest of Bempton’s cliff nesters A Kittiwake collecting grass for its nest Today, thanks to protection, the Climmers are no more, and the auks and Kittiwakes nest unmolested. I hate to think what they tasted like.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 6, 2022
Yet Birkhead credits British ornithologist Edmund Selous with sparking the world’s interest in watching rather than killing birds, despite the fact that Bailey’s “interest in bird-watching predates his,” as he admits in a footnote (p. The difference seems to be that Selous had previously killed birds and she had not.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 19, 2013
He collected 136 individuals found laying around after the storm, and carefully measured them. This was proposed as an example of what we now call “stabilizing selection” … variation is constantly introduced into populations, but every now and then “selective forces” culls the variation out. because of collisions with vehicles.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2014
Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. were funded by hunters and 95.1% funded by the non-hunting public.”
Animal Ethics
DECEMBER 23, 2006
He clearly thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily, but he appears to be somewhat ambivalent about killing animals (provided the killing is carried out humanely). However, the above rationalization does not directly address the issue of contributing to the unnecessary killing of a conscious sentient being.
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