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The Changing Fortunes of Europe’s Vultures – Part 1

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In Franco’s day, a price was paid to farmers and hunters who brought evidence of having shot “vermin”. In comparison, over 15 thousand Griffons make the same crossing each season. Their numbers have gone up dramatically in recent years as a result of conservation. These included the talons of raptors, Griffons included.

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Will parrots and falcons soon be moved around in your field guide?

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Seriemas are long-legged terrestrial hunters related to extinct terror birds (phorusrhacids). Peregrine Falcon ( Falco peregrinus ) © David J. Ringer It’s exciting and mind-bending to ponder a seriema-falcon-parrot-passerine relationship.

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A Survey of U.S. Birders

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birders are rare, so the recent release of a “ National Survey of Birdwatchers: Nationwide and Flyway Comparisons ” is notable. In 2012 , the NFC revised some of its goals and set forth a new vision of waterfowl management that emphasized a core of hunter and conservationist supporters. Comprehensive surveys of U.S. Paul, MN 55108.

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Everglades Long-Legged Birds Feed Their Young To Alligators, Everything is Good.

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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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Do birds avoid predators because of culture?

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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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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

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Wikipedia reports that he “was an excellent tennis player and an enthusiastic big game hunter. Yes, I know it is getting a bit boring, but the scientific species name of the Rufous-headed Parrotbill, bakeri , honors yet another British ornithologist, Edward Charles Stuart Baker (1864-1944).

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Grallards: New Zealand’s Next Extinction or Newest Species?

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Unfortunately for the hunters these were already all extinct, and with the introduction of cats, rats, stoats and the like the only upland game bird, the New Zealand Quail , was fast on the way out too. It’s a very unfair comparison, but it can be hard to explain, in layman’s terms, what is being lost.

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