10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2022

Lesser Whistling Ducks are “not threatened by hunting as they are not considered good to eat” ( Wikipedia ). Please keep that in mind if you ever think that Germany’s only contributions to the world are highways and world wars. Whether you are a creature of the night (like this Large-tailed Nightjar ) or not.

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Singapore Birds Zebras Feral 261

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

Dates of first arrival listed by Schorger (1966) are: Italy 1520, Germany 1530, France 1538, England 1541, Denmark and Norway 1550, Sweden 1556. The believability of this is underscored by the fact that the Pilgrims and their guides listed among their possession numerous “fowling pieces” … for hunting wild birds.

Turkey 238

Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 238

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2013

The USA’s only truly indigenous parrot was wiped out by a combination of factors, although direct persecution through hunting seems to have been the major contributor. A Carolina Parakeet mounted in a museum in Germany Fritz Geller-Grimm. But its not just parrots that are doing well in their adopted city.

Miami 166

Miami Parrots Research Alaska 166

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

He continues with images found in illuminated manuscripts such as Catherine of Cleves’s Book of Hours and Frederick II of Germany’s On the Art of Hunting With Birds. Egyptian tomb painting depicting duck hunting in the marshes, from the eBook version of Birds and Us, © 2022, Tim Birkhead and Princeton University Press.

Dissection 261

Dissection Birds Europe Eggs 261

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2015

I have caught a bus across Europe, but I can’t really claim to have “been” to Germany or Belgium. Generally, I need to have cleared immigration and/or spent some time in the country actually visiting it.

Botswana 162

Botswana Lesotho Elephants Bald Eagle 162

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

One study found that birds living in Botswana had elevated levels of lead in their bloodstreams during hunting season, presumably coming from lead bullets used on animals killed by hunters. I could immediately tell them it was an Egyptian Goose – an invasive species in Germany but not at Kruger. ” (HBW).

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Elephants Congo Birds Africa 147

Critter News

MAY 7, 2012

An unidentified German actor has been stopped by Berlin’s administrative court, following his announcement that he planned to strangle two puppies with cable wires on stage to protest against the slaughter of sled dogs in Alaska and hunting dogs in Spain, with their death being accompanied by a funeral march music and loud gong.

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Protest Protesting Protesters Puppies 100

4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

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.&#. Ancestors of dogs could cooperate to hunt, but the cooperation had limits.

Wolves 100

Wolves Fox Dogs Apes 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Predictably, it contained few surprises (and no lifers either) as Germany took lock-down regulations seriously and travel, even locally, was next to impossible throughout most of the year. There is no “masked” anything here in Germany. ” And the corvids all miss the mark by a single letter.

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2020 Birds Costa Rica Germany 263

10,000 Birds

APRIL 1, 2012

The Wagbachniederung is reknown for its waterfowl, shorebirds, and good breeding populations of several species that are very localized in Germany. Below is a long, long list of the species I encountered (66, which is a very respectable species count for the middle of March in southern Germany) and the totals for each species.

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Germany Birds Ducks Feral 218

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

This model was very popular in Germany in the 1970s and 1980s and it was commonly called “Ente“ (duck) due to its round hood. But no, there is another reason for this surprisingly creative way of describing the gruesome killing of a creature: the characteristics of hunting in Germany.

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Germany Hunters Birds Owls 232

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2023

Shockingly, the Ashy-throated Parrotbill apparently is a species heavily hunted for bird fighting in Guizhou Province, China ( source ). If being hunted by evil humans was not enough, Ashy-throated Parrotbills are also hosts of the parasitic Common Cuckoo. Shame on the researchers. But haven’t we all done these things?

Eggs 203

Eggs China Mammals Birds 203

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2024

Eventually however, a large group was hunting insects over the pond in the nearby park, showing off their shimmering metal-blue backs. Although I once saw a group of Barn Swallows pass overhead a few weeks earlier, these birds were clearly on passage only as there was no sign of this species since.

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Birds Collecting Canada Hunting 246

Critter News

JANUARY 5, 2009

Federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea said Monday that Canadian officials will meet with EU politicians in a bid to convince them that Canada's commercial seal hunt is humane and should be exempt from a proposed seal import ban.A Tags: canada europe seal hunters seals hunting. The meeting is scheduled for January 21.

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Seals Hunters Hunting Germany 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Storks, Ibises and Spoonbills goes on to give greater detail of the former nesting sites in Europe: it could once be found “in southern Germany and Austria, in the valleys of the upper Rhine and Danube Rivers, and in the Alps of Switzerland, Italy and Germany, and perhaps in Hungary and Greece”.

Morocco 246

Morocco Austria Algeria Germany 246

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Scaup are so worthless that when you input “I love scaup” into Google you only get four results and three of them are hunting related. And even if such a bird existed and were endangered no one would want to see it. Once in a while, it will fly around a bit and then cross Swiss and German air space.

Ducks 214

Ducks New Zealand France Germany 214

10,000 Birds

APRIL 25, 2015

Seattle doesn’t root just for the Seahawks … study reports that Emerald City residents (and those of Berlin, Germany) find common birds like finches and corvids worth opening their wallets for. Someone better tell that flamingo not to stay put and avoid Malta, where voters narrowly rejected a ban on hunting migratory birds.

Malta 212

Malta Barn Owls Fowl Cyprus 212

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2024

One of these pages is dedicated to the harm and benefit the species has for humans, while a full page is dedicated to instructions on how to hunt the bird: The translation of the first sentence indicates the general tone: “They are not very shy, and easy to shoot.”

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Birds Europe Science Illinois 238

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2024

Particularly the latter – Nabang – would in the past easily have merited its own post, but recent developments there that now make the place a bit like the former border between West and East Germany changed that. ” Blue-bearded Bee-eaters seem to have a pretty clever hunting strategy. But not to bees.

Squirrels 156

Squirrels Birds China Bears 156

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I may have said this before, but thrushes always remind me a bit of German housewives – robust and reliable, but not particularly graceful (there is a reason I live in China and not in Germany). This certainly applies to the relatively featureless Pale Thrush , which basically lives up to its unpromising name rather well.

Eggs 255

Eggs Birds Bangladesh China 255

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2011

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Alligators 2011 Deer Florida 123