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.

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Wildlife Coyotes Wolves Hunters 255

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2013

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. As you know, a lot of birds are killed in the U.S. If so, the frequency of road kill should decline over time.

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Killing South Africa Nebraska Cape Verde 251

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2016

After all, what good is getting a kill if in doing the killing the predator is injured? Survival of the fittest isn’t a pleasant process to witness but it is marvelously efficient. Peregrine Falcons are excellent at culling the weak. Of course, injured animals have a very difficult time making it in the wild.

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Culling Falcons New Jersey Jamaica 157