Europe Hunters Protection 
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 19, 2019
And here in Europe, they are the real deal, an indigenous species and not domesticated animals gone wild. They may have been disturbed by the presence of hunters in the Danube backwaters. The only wildcat I found was illegally killed by hunters during closed season. I think all were males, at last two huge ones certainly were.
10,000 Birds
MAY 26, 2024
In Franco’s day, a price was paid to farmers and hunters who brought evidence of having shot “vermin”. All this changed with protection. These are African, sub-Saharan, vultures that were unknown in Europe until recent times. Their numbers have gone up dramatically in recent years as a result of conservation.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 14, 2011
Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Of the Central Flyway states, Nebraska alone holds out in protecting the cranes, having proven by its longstanding Festival of the Cranes in Kearney that a crane is worth infinitely more alive and purring in the sky with its family than thudding, broken and bleeding, into a cornfield.
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). I am… mesmerised by the mountain. One Grey-headed Woodpecker flies across the road – a promising start.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 24, 2020
It’s also one of Scotland’s most iconic birds and the favorite quarry of hunters during the August season that begins on “The Glorious Twelfth”. Red Grouse by English ornithologist and artist John Gould (1804-1881), from The Birds of Europe.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 11, 2018
This protected area is of special importance for migrating waders, of which some 27 species were reported here, including Pied Avocet , Temminck’s Stint , Red-necked Phalarope , Sanderling and Dunlin. Unfortunately, at the time of writing, wildlife is still more commonly sold to foreign hunters. A birding year in Serbia.
10,000 Birds
JULY 22, 2014
That was a wild cat, a wild Wildcat, the cat that lives in the wild because that is where it is from and where it belongs, at the southern end of its pan-African range that extended at one time well into Europe and Asia. Read what you want about the origin of domestic cats; the genetic evidence is not properly sampled.
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