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I’ve just finished reading THE PLUME HUNTER (Torrey House Press, December 2011) by Renée Thompson. In this captivating book, Thompson explores the motivation behind hunters who shot birds to sell feathers for women’s hats at the turn of the nineteenth century.
Each chapter of The Jewel Hunter reads like a mini-travel novel. If you want to travel the world birding and drinking beer, The Jewel Hunter is a must-buy. The Jewel Hunter belongs to a singular niche, the Big Year/Big Lifelist book. The Jewel Hunter can be frustrating in this respect. And mosquitos. And leeches.
Marra and Chris Santella, authors of Cat Wars: The Devastating Consequences of a Cuddly Killer (Princeton University Press, 212 pp., And keeping cats, natural hunters, indoors is, as a matter of biology and of common sense, not the healthiest state for them. Princeton University Press, 212 pp., By Peter P.
Advertisers, press and Monday morning news, Hollywood and how people see birders are the issue. Even though we spend more money and are far more numerous than hunters this is not commonly understood. If you can not go Friday then do it this weekend. Do not hesitate, Do not Pass Go. People will notice as the film racks up dollars.
Amazon had a brilliant press release on Cyber Monday 2013 about using drones as a possible delivery service for their products in the near future. ” Based on the press release date, I assumed it was just big talk and way to drive people to Amazon to shop on Cyber Monday.
He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Congratulations to them and many thanks to the many, many participants of each phase of this fun, fun, fun giveaway as well as Richard Crossley and our friends at Princeton University Press !
So, one might surmise, it’s OK if they get shot by hunters thinking they’re sandhill cranes? What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? Do all hunters realize that? It gives one to wonder why this designation was made.
He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Congratulations to them and many thanks to the many, many participants of each phase of this fun, fun, fun giveaway as well as Richard Crossley and our friends at Princeton University Press !
And this is despite the bad press received by the annual seal hunts. It also has been a traditional food for generations of hunters in Canada's east who serve it up roasted, or sometimes with a hearty Burgundy sauce. Definitely a niche market ,but demand has been increasing.
Over 3 million pairs of Antarctic Fur Seals breed on South Georgia, saved from near extinction by fur hunters. from Princeton University Press (directly from their website or from online book stores) and in Europe from the South Georgia Heritage Trust website. The book is reasonably priced and can be purchased in the U.S.
Thanks also go to Cornell University Press for providing the giveaway copy. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. And the winner, determined by assigning each entrant a number and using a random number generator to pick one, is Ashli Gorbet !
He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Congratulations to them and many thanks to the many, many participants of each phase of this fun, fun, fun giveaway as well as Richard Crossley and our friends at Princeton University Press !
Fuller’s astonishment at locating this “grail of extinct-bird photograph hunters” is contagious. Princeton University Press, 2014 (also published by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2013). Almost as an afterthought, Prys-Jones mentions that he has a photograph and finds it after rummaging through his desk. 95 halftones.
He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Congratulations to them and many thanks to the many, many participants of each phase of this fun, fun, fun giveaway as well as Richard Crossley and our friends at Princeton University Press !
He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Congratulations to them and many thanks to the many, many participants of each phase of this fun, fun, fun giveaway as well as Richard Crossley and our friends at Princeton University Press !
I’ve long advocated for a habitat stamp strickly for birders as some of us don’t want to be labeled as hunters. Personally I’m very stubborn on this issue (not that I have anything against hunters)…but the minute they make a birding stamp, I’ll buy two!
He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Congratulations to them and many thanks to the many, many participants of each phase of this fun, fun, fun giveaway as well as Richard Crossley and our friends at Princeton University Press !
He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Congratulations to them and many thanks to the many, many participants of each phase of this fun, fun, fun giveaway as well as Richard Crossley and our friends at Princeton University Press !
Below is a press release about the mailing. Press Release Governors: Stop Ecodestructive University Training! On March 11th, RPA sent the governors of all 50 states a letter and two factsheets urging them to help get their land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meat industry. Another went out last Friday. Thanks and best wishes!
But these days, the ugliest and most distressing threat to the Golden Eagle in Scotland is from the firearms and steel traps of ghillies, the gamekeepers-for-hire who wait on wealthy hunters during Scotland’s traditional upland grouse season.
First issued in a limited printing in 1972, then re-issued by Ammo Press in 2008 after Harper’s death in June 2007, it contains images that are iconic and familiar, striking and unique. The Eskimo Curlew “ran the gauntlet of a hunter army, which stalked him from state to state to provision meat counters by the wagonload.”
He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Congratulations to them and many thanks to the many, many participants of each phase of this fun, fun, fun giveaway as well as Richard Crossley and our friends at Princeton University Press !
Barn Swallows are a bit unhappy with their image as restless aerial hunters and would like to gain a more stately and dignified profile. The rather drab-looking female can only look colorful by grabbing some colorful insects. Accessorizing for birds. They patiently sat for my photos in order to achieve this.
Princeton University Press, September 15, 2014. Let’s read about its life with amazement and view the future within the prism of its death. ————————————-. The Passenger Pigeon. by Errol Fuller. Hardcover, 9.6 inches, 184 pages, $29.95. by Mark Avery.
Their populations, plus those of other species that ‘wore’ the coveted long, colorful feathers used for women’s fashionable hats, were being dangerously depleted by hunters intent on feeding the millinery industry. Aurum Press, June 2018, 336 pp. The late Victorian age was not a good time to be an egret!
of Nevada Press, 2007) features a cover by David Sibley. of New Mexico Press, 2005). Press, 2008) commissioned hundreds of black-and-white bird drawings to illustrate its species accounts. Press, 2008) commissioned hundreds of black-and-white bird drawings to illustrate its species accounts.
So, I welcomed the opportunity to read and review Flying Dinosaurs: How Fearsome Reptiles Became Birds , by John Pickrell, published in the United States by Columbia University Press. Don’t let the university press imprint deceive you. Columbia, University Press, September 2014. No collarbones! No feathers! Cope and O.C.
He is also, according to his Bloomsbury Publishers’ bio, “an obsessive birder and vagrant-hunter (when time allows!). Thanks to Princeton University Press for a reviewer’s copy of this book and permission to reproduce pages and thanks to Jay McGowan and Tom Johnson for permission to use their photographs on those pages.
The latest press release from the USFWS. What this press release doesn’t mention about the amount of money pumped into the economy by the National Wildlife Refuge System, as stated in the Banking on Nature Report, about 72 percent of total expenditures are generated by non-consumptive activities on refuges! www.youtube.com/watch?v=sk_5pt9OTLA.
Accidentals is published by the ten-year old Torrey House Press, which has an impressive-looking roster of books, fiction and non-, about the outdoors and the American West, including The Plume Hunter, previously reviewed here. Torrey House Press, 342 pp., What an ugly sentence that is. Accidentals. By Susan M. March 10,2020.
Another great birding adventure book is The Jewel Hunter by Chris Gooddie (Princeton Univ. Press, 2012). I think of The Jewel Hunter often when I travel to foreign countries, wishing I could do it like Goodie did. Press, 2014) by Tui De roy, Mark Jones and Julie Cornthwaite, a gift you can give anyone.
From the press release: Euro-MPs have voted overwhelmingly for a total ban on the trade in seal products across Europe. Tags: seal hunters. That's good news. Labour Euro MP Arlene McCarthy, who helped steer the ban through the European Parliament, said: "This law is a victory for people power and a credit to the campaigners involved.".
He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Congratulations to them and many thanks to the many, many participants of each phase of this fun, fun, fun giveaway as well as Richard Crossley and our friends at Princeton University Press !
I must have been very lucky with my timing because I was there when swamp mahoganies were flowering and this brings the nectar hunters in droves. It wasn’t nearly as busy this time, but still okay for wetland birds. Not that we lingered to look, we were on a mission.
I followed his call, but so did Emily The Hunter. When I answered the phone, I inadvertently pressed the “speakerphone” button, and as soon as Emily heard her daddy’s voice, she trotted over to the phone to rub her face on it. So much for the predator instinct.
In a press release , Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt said that “[h]unters and anglers are the backbone of American conservation, and the Duck Stamp is one of the many ways they contribute to conserving America’s waterfowl and wetlands throughout the country.”. The online public comment process is quick and easy.
He strongly believes that waterfowl hunters are the major reason we have waterfowl and wetlands in North America today. million waterfowl hunters in the U.S. ” If we are to continue preserving our wetlands, birders need to recognize their common bond with hunters and engage in conservation as vigorously as they do.
The Trump Administration had argued that “hunters and anglers are the backbone of American conservation, and the Duck Stamp is one of the many ways they contribute to conserving America’s waterfowl and wetlands throughout the country.” Proposed rules are published in the Federal Register , which is available online. * * *.
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