10,000 Birds
MARCH 21, 2011
Second of all, Lewis’s Woodpeckers are birds of the west and they rarely stray to New York State. Fortunately, Tom spotted it flying in and landing in a tree over the house and we all enjoyed scope views of a great bird, a lifer for most of us and Isaac’s 400th bird in New York State!
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
And while we’re working to ban captive boar hunts in New York why not ban all captive hunts? Real hunters don’t shoot animals raised in captivity or animals that are penned in, do they?
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 28, 2014
A bill has been introduced by two senators that would outlaw this type of contest in New York, and I started to wonder if people who really are anti-hunting could jeopardize its potential success. Since no one was vilified by gun club defenders more than Friends of Animals , I called its New York director, Edita Birnkrant.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 24, 2014
I won’t pick a fight with hunters, as long as they eat what they shoot and don’t use lead ammunition. However, I will pick a fight with the Rip Van Winkle Rod and Gun Club in Palenville, New York, which is sponsoring their fourth annual “Crow Down” March 29-30, 2014. I am not anti-hunting. Plain old fashioned Fun.”.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 1, 2011
Bald Eagles will provide a sporting challenge for hunters. Hunters don’t even need to use decoys. However they are wary and have famously sharp eyes, so bagging eagles will be a true sporting challenge for hunters. We need to give hunters new opportunities and new species to hunt.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 16, 2012
Proposal: Creation of a Federal Wildlife Conservation Stamp A birder, wildlife watcher, photographer and non-hunter version of the Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp (aka Federal Duck Stamp). She says, “there’s just a cultural bias against anything related to hunting.”
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
We’re in upstate New York, so this is unlikely, but still disturbing. He was a small male, six or seven months old, and obviously not a skilled hunter. Yet another Red-tailed Hawk ! They saw movement on the grassy area to the side, slowed, and found a young hawk, soaking wet, unable to get off the ground. What should we do?”
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