10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2011

Nationwide, wildlife watchers now outspend hunters 6 to 1. Giving a few hundred hunters something else to shoot, in my opinion, cannot be worth the blowback from tens of thousands of people who are willing to travel and spend just to watch the birds fly over. Isn’t that neat?

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 21, 2011

Except that, yeah, I know that not all hunters are like this… a. Presented without further comment.

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Hunters Ducks Rights 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 28, 2014

Defenders of the gun club accused me of lying, of distorting facts, of being anti-hunting, of being an animal rights activist, of being allied with the dreaded Friends of Animals, of hiding my true agenda (gun control), and of being unconcerned that animal lovers were supposedly threatening members of the gun club with death.

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Killing Hunting Possums Hunters 260

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2011

Hunters frequently refer to them as “Rib-eye in the Sky” due to the excellent taste. ” The big gray feather in Kentucky’s cap, to my thinking, is more like a big old hole, shot right through the crown. Rather, he said it was entirely about giving hunters the chance to hunt cranes.

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Kentucky Hunting Tennessee Indiana 259

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2013

million hunters. This means that only 11% of hunters buy the Duck Stamp raising approximately $25 million a year. This is wonderful news right? With the trend of increasing numbers of wildlife enthusiasts and decreasing numbers of hunters , the National Wildlife Refuge System needs the support of more non-hunters.

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Ducks Wildlife Hunters Hunting 210

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

The system was intended as a hunter-centric model, both guided by and benefitting consumptive interests. Given that few hunters actually consume coyotes, wolves, cougars, and except for a few individuals, even bears, it is obviously a “waste” of wildlife to shoot or trap these animals just for “fun” 2.

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Wildlife Coyotes Wolves Hunters 255

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. Here is a direct (and unedited) quote: “… keep in mind the main reason why experienced crow hunters got into the sport in the first place, Fun. I am not anti-hunting. Plain old fashioned Fun.”. This is baloney. Birding'

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Killing Animal Abuse Slaughter Slaughtered 272

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Only several dozen of these swans wintered in the region (the region being, approximately, Montana, Idaho and Wyoming) and for some reason they were almost all at this river in this year, and on this day, they were right there in view. They (hunters) see this white thing, and they aren’t entirely sure what it is,” Naumann said.

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Minnesota Wounded Wildlife Rehabilitation Montana 250

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Barreling into your feeder with reckless abandon and cleaning you right out. When hunters would fire into a flock, the survivors would wheel around and return to the dead and dying. But imagine those flocks are verdant green, a color unmatched by any native bird currently in North American (north of Mexico, of course).

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Parrots Hunters United States North America 262

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2012

Their beautiful blue-gray can really pop in the right light. As I’ve posted before they are efficient and merciless hunters. There are too many images to share so I’ll keep the captions brief and let the pictures do the squawking, er, I mean talking. They mimic our styles of dress and mock us through forced perspective.

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San Francisco Gophers Reptiles Hunters 254

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2014

They don’t take into account the valid concerns non-hunters have about buying the stamp, which fall into two main areas: 1. Many wildlife watchers, birders and photographers don’t want to support a stamp that is so intimately and historically associated with hunting. They haven’t, but we have.

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Ducks Wildlife Hunting Hunters 256

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2017

In the 21st century this may sound like 19th century reasoning, but I fight because it’s the right thing to do. It’s like I always tell ya kid, you gotta fight when you think it’s the right thing to do. Cover photo : White Hunter Black Heart, 1990. I feel pretty good, really.

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Rights Serbia Abandoning Abandonment 144

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

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? That’s what you do with other game, right? Do all hunters realize that?

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2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 244

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

They may have been disturbed by the presence of hunters in the Danube backwaters. When I reached the levee earlier that morning, I met an elderly hunter from whom I learned that there was an ongoing duck and pheasant hunt, but no one was shooting from, nor towards the embankment, hence I should be safe there.

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Serbia Otters Boars Hunters 246

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2012

Just shoot ‘em all , right responsible hunters? First person to mention duck stamps in the comments wins a prize.

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Hunters Ducks Rights 169

Animal Person

MAY 10, 2009

In " 'Animal Rights:' Pernicious Nonsense for Both Law & Public Policy ," Massachusetts attorney and "sportsman" Richard Latimer is on the mark with some concepts, and way off with others. Now, I know you're saying: That's not what animal rights is. It has absolutely nothing to do with any genuine environmentalist ethic.

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Animal Rights Rights Animal Broiler Chicken 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2024

Though it has spread naturally, Anders Gray from BirdLife Cyprus told me that it’s numbers had been boosted by releases of captive-bred birds by hunters. Once considered a distinct race of the more widespread Pied Wheatear, it is now regarded as a full species in its own right. It’s now on the official quarry list on the island.

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Cyprus Breeders Falcons Hunters 246

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2021

Golden Vireos can also be seen near my home, while Rufous-backed Robins even visit my garden, when conditions are right. In case you were wondering, I’ll clarify that the header photo is of a Crested Caracara , a weird hawk-sized falcon that can’t decide whether it wants to be a hunter or a carrion-eater.

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Woodpeckers Hunters Falcons Breeding 261

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

At least most of the resident species can still be seen right along the road, you just have to keep an eye out for cyclists and vehicles on their way up and down the volcano. Either way, its all good, its still birding and if you try it in the right places on Poas, the avian treats will delight you.

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Costa Rica Birds Cows Hunters 264

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2011

(Check out Part 1 here) (Check out Part 2 here) This hawk was a fierce hunter. Then to my surprise she leapt off the sign and flew toward the light, hovered momentarily… and snatched the gopher head right off the side of the fixture! Patch was focused and deliberate, consistent and inventive. She had remembered.

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Gophers Blackbirds Tanzania Hunting 245

10,000 Birds

MAY 26, 2024

An exhausted, panting, Griffon Vulture sits on a sea wall at Gibraltar, with a backdrop of spring-colorful wildflowers at Gibraltar These birds have crossed the Sahara Desert to winter in the Sahel Region, some right down to Senegal in West Africa, and are now on their way back. These included the talons of raptors, Griffons included.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 17, 2008

A judge has found five animal-rights activists not guilty of getting too close to seal hunters during the 2006 hunt off Canada's east coast. The five were charged with coming within 10 metres of seal hunters on March 26, 2006 while filming the annual slaughter in the Gulf of St. Tags: seal hunters humane society.

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Seals Humane Society Of The United States Slaughtered Slaughter 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 25, 2016

And keeping cats, natural hunters, indoors is, as a matter of biology and of common sense, not the healthiest state for them. First, there is a large and rabid — well, enthusiastic — cat lobby, including many people who support colonies of feral cats with food and otherwise, such as the large nonprofit group, Alley Cat Allies.

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Feral Cats Cats Tnr Trap Neuter Return 268

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2015

The story with Cecil was something of an exception, but the universe didn’t disappoint and sure enough the latest hunter outrage story today is, predictably, about a woman hunter. Often just for being a woman (its telling how many of these “outrages” about hunting involve women, not men.

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Animal Cruelty Hunters Sharks Hunting 182

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 23, 2011

Or The Hunter Becomes The Hunted What am I talking about? crickets* Fine, you’re probably right, it is too ambitious a program anyway. Or Why Eating Raw Seafood Is Dangerous Or Ouch! That Looks Like It Smarts! A very unfortunate Semipalmated Sandpiper that chose the wrong mussel to make into a meal. Great idea, no?

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Hunters Hunting Breeding Rights 160

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. They are harmless to humans and their horns are used for wrestling other males for mating rights. They are called Antlions due to ants being one of their main prey items and “lion” referring to hunter or destroyer.

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Leopards Elephants 240

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2011

He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Wicked, right? Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. Hat-tip to Stella.

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Sparrows 2011 Deer Cats 235

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

I get that you’re really angry, I mean, he was a popular lion and yes, his cute widdle cubs will probably die to, but I can’t help feeling you’ve kind of missed the point a bit, and well, ending all hunting in Africa will not solve much and maybe make things worse and… No, no, I’m not a hunter. To a point.

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Lions Sierra Leone Hunting Buffalo 247

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2018

Common Kingfisher , Common Hoopoe and the European Bee-eater come from their nesting holes at the high loess-bluff of the opposite, right bank of the river. Ecotourism will no doubt arrive soon, and with luck its revenue will prove that there’s more to be gained from protecting wildlife than selling it to hunters.” eBird bar chart. #3

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Serbia Bulgaria Farming Turtles 195

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

These conditions offered easy access to hunters in a habitat where a bird as large as a Guan would have little chances to hide or scape. It is correct, of course, to think of extinction this way during the Holocene Extinction, which we are living through right now. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again. What a horror!

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Collecting Peru Neglecting Ecuador 270

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2011

He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Wicked, right? Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. Hat-tip to Stella.

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Cats 2011 Deer New York Times 199

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2022

I learned of the trip right as it had been delayed and made a vow that I would be on that ship. Finally in 1799, the first visitors on this volcanic land were a group of French seal hunters who were after the fur seals that can be found hauled out on the beaches for fur and oil, which almost wiped out the local population of the species.

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South Africa Mice Albatross Africa 264

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2019

We were in the right places at the right times, this is how two birders from Ohio and myself saw this majestic trio of birds. A major year bird, one of my partner’s most wanted species, I hope I can go back to that site with her and refind this hunter of oropendolas, guans, and other large birds. Black Hawk-Eagle.

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Costa Rica Eagles West Virginia Opossums 203

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy, their son, Desmond Shearwater, and their two indoor cats, Hunter and B.B. Wicked, right? Hes only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasnt working as a union representative or spending time with his family. I guess I’m one of those pervs.

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Ducks 2011 Deer Brazil 234

Critter News

DECEMBER 29, 2009

That's right, a herd of panicked elk were cornered in a cow pasture and a group of boneheads decided to "hunt" them. Even other hunters were disgusted: "How can you call that hunting?" There are some fair chase rules that any ethical hunter subscribes to.". asked Bob Coombs, 70, of Mount Vernon. That can't be called hunting.

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Hunting Seattle Hunters Cows 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2012

The cottonwoods in the river bottoms echo the branching antlers of the elk that bugle among them each falls (abundant, but never enough so for Montana’s voracious hunters.) Here I would explore a mighty ecosystem nearly destroyed, and witness the efforts of a few dedicated scientists to put things right.

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Ferrets Wildlife Montana Prairie Dogs 220

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2023

So though I visited Lynford, I didn’t see a Hawfinch on this occasion as I wasn’t there at the right time, though I did meet a number of hopeful Hawfinch hunters (HHHs), none of whom reported a sighting. Marsh T**s are far less numerous than Blue T**s, and despite their name aren’t particularly keen on marshes.

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Barn Owls Rats Japan Blackbirds 245