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The Beautiful and Colorful Mourning Dove

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It’s a good thing too, because it is the leading gamebird in North America in terms of total harvest and the widespread distribution of hunting effort. Approximately one million hunters annually harvest more than 20 million Mourning Doves , which exceeds the annual harvest of all other migratory game birds combined 3.

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Come to India With Babita Wildlife Tours!

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The forests are home to Kalij Pheasants , Crested Tree Swifts , Ashy Wood Swallows , owlets, woodpeckers, spider hunters, barbets and bulbuls, laughingthrushes and hornbills. Once the private hunting preserve of the Maharaja of Bharatpur, this fabulous wetland gave us a list of over ninety species in a very relaxed day on a recent trip!

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Drones: The Next Thing Birders Will Be Arguing About

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I was chatting with Gordon about this and we discussed how drones could be a safer way to get photos of birds or document birds for breeding surveys, but he was quick to point out, “You and I already have an idea of what a safe distance would be to test that out with an active bald eagle nest.

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Canada Up to Its Old Seal-Killing Tricks

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The amendments to the Marine Mammal Regulations, which include strengthened federal enforcement, come just over a month after newly appointed federal Fisheries Minister Gail Shea said Canada is "going straight ahead for the 2009 hunt. Tags: canada seal hunters seals. We're proceeding as usual." "No

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Just in Time: Kenn Kaufman’s “A Season on the Wind” — a review

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As a test of endurance, as a physical ordeal, it’s both miraculous and monstrous.” As he points out, his beloved Magee Marsh would never have been preserved, or saved from development, had it not been home, at one time, to a duck-hunting club, which later transferred the land to the state of Ohio. Eighty hours of flying.

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Are We Much Better than Michael Vick?

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Hunters shoot down animals in cold blood for mere sport. In university labs nationwide, scientists inflict spinal-cord injuries on dogs and cats, inject rats with carcinogens, test dangerous drugs on monkeys, and do all kinds of evil things to guinea pigs in the name of scientific research.

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Do birds avoid predators because of culture?

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In particular, birds that hang around with humans who don’t happen to hunt or eat them can become very tame. I spent a lot of time with Efe Pygmy hunters in the deep forest, and I spent a certain amount of time either entirely alone or with only one other researcher, this or that American.

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