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How Close Is “Too Close” To An Owl?

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If you have an owl that is oblivious to your presence like this hunting Boreal Owl , you’re doing ok. What do you use as your guideline for how close to get to an owl? Sure, it may not be the head on shot…but there are a ton of those out there already, maybe try for the more natural oblivious owl shots. How about you?

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Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce & Conservation: A Book Review by a Curious Bird Feeder

10,000 Birds

Shelves of feeders to choose from, ranging from inexpensive tubes to porcelain sculptures; bags and barrels of shelled and unshelled seed, including something called variously thistle, nyjer or niger; guidelines on when, how, where to do the actual feeding. The 2011 National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation , p.36,

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

10,000 Birds

These light blue boxes paint an overall view of the group as a whole and articulate guidelines for differentiating species within the group. Every one of these field guides is excellent. It really is all a matter of what type of descriptive avian information works for you when you are identifying a bird.

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Birding According to ChatGPT, Part II

10,000 Birds

It’s important to note that countable birds can vary depending on the specific rules and guidelines set by different birding organizations, competitions, or regional checklists. Some regions may have additional criteria or specific rules regarding the inclusion of certain species. According to the U.S.

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Drones: The Next Thing Birders Will Be Arguing About

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Say a duck hunter knows that the closed pools nearby has ducks and it’s dead in the pool where they are hunting. They call their friend to check the ducks with a drone and the ducks get flushed and go to the hunting pond? You may think these are extreme situations but we don’t have great laws in place for drones yet.

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

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Dunayer devotes a chapter each to the language used in hunting, zoos, "marine parks," vivisection and "animal agriculture." She also explores pronouns and metaphors, and she even offers style guidelines and a thesaurus of "Alternatives to Speciesist Terms." An animal's own terms are 'Don't hunt me'" (49). "At

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Feral Cats in American Cities

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However, if a municipality wishes to allow cat colonies, they should develop standards through ordinances for the proper and managed operation of such colonies, based on the guidelines below, that would provide accountability and oversight by the health officer and animal control officer.