10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 21, 2023
I can hear the mooing of cows, interrupted by gunshots, while two scared flocks of ducks fly above the delta. The cows, let free to walk to the nearest wet meadows, are coming in my direction. I can still hear the gunshots and hope that the hunters really do shoot only the flying birds.
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 ). But marrying a widow and thus getting access to scientific information was not the only remarkable event in his life.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2021
Eastern Meadowlarks, cowbirds, grackles , and a few other birds are at peace with the cows but for most birds on Poas, the forest is where life is living large. Keep watching and more will appear, maybe a flock of high flying Barred Parakeets , maybe even the hidden bird hunter of the dark woods, the Costa Rican Pygmy-Owl.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 19, 2013
I can hear the mooing of cows, interrupted by gunshots, while two scared flocks of ducks fly above the delta. The cows, let free to walk to the nearest wet meadows, are coming in my direction. I can still hear the gunshots and hope that the hunters really do shoot only the flying birds. Saxicola rubetra. Oenanthe oenanthe.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 27, 2016
At first, the road is paved, but as soon as the tarmac ends, the tracks become decorated by hunters in orange vests. The soil is disturbed by foraging boars (and there is not a single shot from those hunters). Cows and water buffaloes grazing the dried up lakebed under the imposing shadow of Mt. It’s the boar hunting season.
Critter News
DECEMBER 29, 2009
That's right, a herd of panicked elk were cornered in a cow pasture and a group of boneheads decided to "hunt" them. Even other hunters were disgusted: "How can you call that hunting?" There are some fair chase rules that any ethical hunter subscribes to.". asked Bob Coombs, 70, of Mount Vernon. That can't be called hunting.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 20, 2012
The cottonwoods in the river bottoms echo the branching antlers of the elk that bugle among them each falls (abundant, but never enough so for Montana’s voracious hunters.) The tussocks are badgers, the stones are grouse until they fails to fly away. Even off the refuge, the ranches are by necessity few and far between.
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