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Open Season on Bald Eagles

10,000 Birds

Bald Eagle image is by Francois Portmann and is used with permission You know, I’ve been thinking about this whole dustup over hunting cranes in Tennessee and now Kentucky. I think it’s time to hunt Sandhill Cranes. We’ve always hunted Bald Eagles. There was a lot of hunting for Bald Eagles—it is traditionally a game species.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. We are cautioned to keep the location of the eagle a secret. 2019), and now this book.

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Review of The Bluebird Effect by Julie Zickefoose

10,000 Birds

It brims with humor, with depth, with emotion, and with deeply personal stories that transcend typical nature writing. She has become intimately involved in the lives of the birds she has helped and carefully observed and the knowledge she has gained is shared throughout the book.

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Birding Inirida, Colombia, or river dolphins and hoatzins, part 2

10,000 Birds

… – part 2 – Once I finish this writing, with a strange mix of emotions I will put the Lynx field guide Birds of Colombia to the bookshelf for the first time, more than half a year after I received it. Because of that, the bird has a manure-like odour and is only hunted by humans for food in times of dire need” [ Source ].

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Alistair Darling Refuses to Eat Seal Meat at G7 Meeting

Critter News

Real emotional blackmail on the part of the Canadians. Tags: canada UK europe seal hunt inuit seals G7. He refused to eat the seal meat that the local Inuit community offered to the meeting participants, instead eating Arctic char. Good for him! The Canadian are just using its native peoples as a guilt rod. Stay classy Canada!

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Birds and People: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

We sing about them, we paint them, we use them as mythic and poetic symbols for our spiritual and emotional feelings, we wear them in myriad and often colorful ways, we adopt them as household pets. We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. As they say, the relationship is complicated.

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Why Fear Is Holding Back Your Sales Performance and Your Gut is the Answer

Sales and Marketing Management

Do you think you can hunt for new business and win without stepping on any toes? You are not going to close an entire enterprise deal without a roller coaster of a decision maker, trial by fire in a committee, group think, emotion or crisis mode. It travels in packs but gets the hunting done. Don't cave. Is it your success?

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