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Fur and Fangs rather than Feathers and Beaks

10,000 Birds

I viewed them at dusk, through a telescope, from a ridge overlooking the area they were hunting. It was an exciting experience, though a remarkably chilly one, as winters in Castile and León can be very cold. Keeping fox numbers down certainly benefits our local ground-nesting birds, especially Stone Curlews and Grey Partridges.)

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Birding from a Hide

10,000 Birds

When such a company runs a nature reserve, it is a bit like having a fox to watch over your chickens. After that experience, I stopped complaining about their hides, realising that they are as good as they ever will be. But the foresters were not interested in ecotourism; all they care about is to exploit more timber. And so did I.

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The Eagle Huntress–A Film Review

10,000 Birds

Aisholpan Nurgaiv is a graceful, rosy-cheeked 13-year old girl with a magic smile who makes living on the edge of nowhere and forever look like the easiest experience in the world. It’s constructed in three acts: Home, Festival, Hunting. Aisholpan will not be considered a true Eagle Hunter till she successfully hunts.

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

4 The Love Of Animals

Wolves, for example–the probable ancestors of dogs–live in packs that hunt together and have a complex hierarchy. See TIME’s video “ The March of TIME: Hunting Dog Field Trials.&#. Horowitz and other scientists are now running experiments to determine what a behavior, like a kiss, really means.

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The New Stokes Field Guides to Birds, Eastern Region & Western Region: A Review of Two Books

10,000 Birds

The index is comprehensively excellent, including notable subspecies such as Dusky Seaside Sparrow and Sooty Fox Sparrow. For me, using T he New Stokes Field Guide to Birds, Western Region was a happy experience. Every one of these field guides is excellent.

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John Passmore (1914-2004) on the History of Animal Cruelty

Animal Ethics

So while it is generally agreed that it is wrong to experiment on human beings without their consent in the expectation of making scientific discoveries, there is no such general opposition to animal vivisection. Man-hunting is ruled out as a sport but not, at least with the same degree of unanimity, fox or bird hunting.

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Feral Cats Are An Invasive Species in North America (and elsewhere)

10,000 Birds

I new him because we enlisted his Dryfus Lion and one of his tigers to carry out experiments with bones (this is something archaeologists do). Dogs are similarly dispersed across size ranges, with Foxes, Coyotes, and Wolves taking prey across different parts of the size range. That was one of his cats. ” Many.