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.

Wildlife 255

Wildlife Coyotes Wolves Hunters 255

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 8, 2014

With no further ado, then, here’s what’s been happening during the last twentysomething days or so: Tiny delicacy or declining and suffering species? Not cool, British raptor hunters. So now I get to turn my attention back to birds, and blogging about them! French chefs face off against bird conservationists. Look to flightless birds.

Zebras 241

Zebras Penguins Hunters Suffering 241

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2016

At first, the road is paved, but as soon as the tarmac ends, the tracks become decorated by hunters in orange vests. The soil is disturbed by foraging boars (and there is not a single shot from those hunters). I am… mesmerised by the mountain. One Grey-headed Woodpecker flies across the road – a promising start.

Greece 259

Greece Boars Woodpeckers Eagles 259

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

If you like animals you will generally not want them to suffer and you won’t want them to go extinct. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. You cannot care about the individual, not at that level of suffering.

Animal Rights 270

Animal Rights Rights Animal New Zealand 270

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2014

Their stubby bills make them efficient at this, and unlike their insect hunting thornbill relatives, they are fairly sedentary hunters, content to take insects off leaves without chasing after them. They may be the most specialised lerp hunters, but other species also covet the easy sugar, especially honeyeaters.

Australia 217

Australia Fiji Hunters Thailand 217

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2022

Do birds suffer from depression? For comparative purposes, the fake version (available on Taobao, the Chinese eBay/Amazon, for about 9 USD): The book “The Jewel Hunter” describes one man’s quest to see all the world’s pitta species (Donna reviewed it). This Red-whiskered Bulbul looks like it might.

Birds 147

Birds Germany Humane Family 147

Animal Person

MARCH 9, 2010

Through semantic reversal, fishers (like hunters) pretend to promote rather than destroy life" (67). In their publications, vivisectors virtually never state that they inflicted the harm suffered by their victims. Each year, 'food animals' suffer and die by the billions, but they do so one by one. Overly generous inclusion?

Animal 100

Animal Vivisection Speciesism Puppies 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

The Crested Serpent Eagle is another species bound to suffer from a naming error in perpetuity. The birds forage in flocks and members are believed to stay on nearby if one is killed, according to the Lothas, they will wait to be killed and the hunter would soon see people around him die in quick succession one after another.”

Myanmar 147

Myanmar Birds China Chicago 147

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.

Lions 257

Lions Sierra Leone Hunting Buffalo 257

Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

Hunters kill members of endangered species. Two-thirds believe that nonhumans have as much "right to live free of suffering" as humans, but vivisection, food-industry enslavement and slaughter, and other practices that cause severe, prolonged suffering are legal (49). Any animal threatened with a gun or arrow is endangered.

Speciesism 100

Speciesism Endangered Species Vivisection Homelessness 100

Animal Person

MARCH 17, 2009

The meat industry is inherently destructive and inhumane, there is no way to make it otherwise, and much of the harm it does to ecosystems is by inflicting suffering and death on billions of nonhuman animals, farmed and free-living, each year. Another went out last Friday.

Meat Industry 100

Meat Industry Meat Industry Responsible Policies 100

Animal Person

DECEMBER 21, 2009

I followed his call, but so did Emily The Hunter. As I skulked around my own house, all I could picture was Emily tearing Kermie limb from limb, then suffering a grisly death from ingesting the poison that ran through Kermie’s froggy veins.

Greyhounds 100

Greyhounds Dogs Ducks Litter 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 22, 2019

In fact, by all accounts, Mary adored sport and was an avid equestrienne, hunter, and falconer. Mary suffered for several weeks in what must have been an agonizing, bedridden death, finally succumbing to internal injuries at Wijnendale Castle, on March 27. A portrait of Mary (ca. 1490) attributed to Tyrolian painter Michael Pacher.

France 113

France Hunting Horses Falcons 113

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 31, 2011

He has volunteered to kill a deer cruelly, ineptly and with an outdated weapon that causes additional suffering to the deer. Animals suffer when killed. But whether with a flintlock or a modern rifle, hunting cruelly takes the life of a living, sentient being that has as much right to live as any hunter or writer.

New York Times 40

New York Times New York Mountain Lions Deer 40

Sales and Marketing Management

JUNE 2, 2017

Your competitors’ customers are solid leads, says sales consultant Mark Hunter (TheSalesHunter.com) in his new book “High-Profit Prospecting.” Hunter advises engaging with competitors’ customers frequently, so when their current vendor slips up, you have already established a relationship with them. “Too Know your non-customers.

Hunters 61

Hunters Industry Omaha Dallas 61

Animal Ethics

FEBRUARY 15, 2009

Animals in the wild try to escape from hunters.) If they have a right to life because they have a self-concept, they surely also have a right to die and the right to suffer pain in the process if they desire. Suppose some of them say yes (in American sign language). But recall that shmoos want to be eaten. KBJ: Ditto.

Morals 40

Morals Vegetarian Meat Killing 40

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

He clearly thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily, but he appears to be somewhat ambivalent about killing animals (provided the killing is carried out humanely). The point is that even hunters seem to think that they need a reason to justify killing these animals.

Factory Farming 40

Factory Farming Factory Farm Morals Inhumane 40

10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2024

A short paper i n the Journal of the Natural History of African Birds points out shoddy research that ended up describing the Eurasian Hobby as a “hunter of dusk and dawn” It is not. Another paper hypothesizes that the Eurasian Hobby has “false eyes” at the back of its head, much like the Collared Owlet.

Japan 244

Japan Birds Singapore 2003 244