10,000 Birds

JUNE 15, 2023

In India, no one goes at mid-day because of the heat and the law. Pity, it is the sleeping hours and not the hunting (morning/evening), but at least they are not forced to socialise with people all day. In Africa, no one goes at mid-day because of the heat (making animals lazy and people drowsy).

India

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2012

And this year the pickin’s for quality hunting grounds may be even slimmer. When in doubt, follow Wheaton’s Law. If a Snowy Owl has found enough food at an airport and is removed, what if it’s relocated to an area with poor food offerings? One particular airport had at least three Snowy Owls perching on runways.

Owls

10,000 Birds

APRIL 12, 2022

Some access issues are addressed by federal law. The Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) was passed by Congress and signed into law by President George H.W. Hunting is also prohibited in this area of the refuge. Bush in 1990. Most people arrive by car, but there is a bus stop nearby, and there is a short trail (perhaps.2

Portland

Critter News

AUGUST 24, 2010

A declawed, defanged bear is chained to a stake as hunting dogs bark and snap, trying to force the bear to stand on its hind legs. Hunters say the exercise popular in the state's hilly northwestern corner helps them train their dogs on what to do when they come across a bear during a hunt. State law on the issue is murky.

South Carolina

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2018

There are names assigned by a single person at a single point in time, including all the binomial scientific nomenclature and most of the common names that involve the bird being named after someone’s friend, sponsor, or sister-in-law. Pratincole seems at first blush like it should be the latter, and yet somehow it is the former.

Laws

Critter News

AUGUST 27, 2008

They were all hunting associations AND the National Rifle Association. The ultimate goal of law enforcement is to stop criminal activity before is occurs. Citizens will utilize phone trees and act as eyes and ears of law enforcement to report on suspicious activities. Tags: wildlife crime poaching hunting us.

Wildlife

Critter News

APRIL 20, 2010

The Supreme Court struck down a law that outlawed the depiction of animal cruelty. Mr. Stevens said his videos were aimed at portraying the aggressive characteristics of pit bulls and the use of pit bulls in hunting. A federal appeals court overturned the conviction by declaring the underlying law unconstitutional.

Animal Cruelty

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Under federal and state law, mineral owners have legals right to access and extract their mineral rights. The weather was dreadful and there was a hunting event that made much of the refuge inaccessible for birding, but Okhlaoma no longer taunts me on my eBird profile page. So the oil wells keep pumping away.

Oklahoma

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

The Trumpeter Swans above, for example, winter in Washington’s Skagit Valley, where Hashimoto “attempted to capture the low light and soft grays of winter,” while also rejoicing in this conservation success story–in the early 1960’s the swan numbers in the Valley were down to 15 due to hunting, they now number 11,000.

Birds

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2016

Accordingly, FWS manages with conservation as its primary priority and compatible wildlife-dependent recreation (hunting, fishing, wildlife observation and photography, environmental education and interpretation) as a secondary priority. The System also helps implement the Endangered Species Act and other federal conservation laws.

Wildlife

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

As a result, America’s national parks are now at a higher risk of private development within their borders, we will have fewer tools to protect access to hunting and fishing spots, and local parks and open space projects in all 50 states may face delays or cancellation in the year ahead.” Future generations deserve nothing less.”

Legislation

Critter News

AUGUST 1, 2009

India is to amend its wildlife crime laws to protect the country's tigers, a government minister said. This will increase the habitat area for tigers, who prefer to live and hunt in thick vegetation. But is it enough? From the Press Association.

Tigers

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2016

In India, no one goes at mid-day because of the heat and the law. Pity, it is the sleeping hours and not the hunting (morning/evening), but at least they are not forced to socialise with people all day. In Africa, no one goes at mid-day because of the heat (making animals lazy and people drowsy).

India

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2015

Written by birders, it underlies a wealth of facts, trends, and events with a consciousness that the more knowledgeable we are about good bird feeding practices, based on history and experience, the more successful bird feeding will be at bringing people to birds and the more people will advocate for effective conservation policies and laws.

America

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2016

There were five issues and recommendations of the group: Issue 1: The conservation benefits of the Duck Stamp are poorly understood among the wildlife viewing community and the public, as well as among much of the hunting community. a) Recommendation : Identify new (non-hunting/recreational) uses for the Duck Stamp.

Ducks

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.

Animal Rights

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2016

This species, one of the heaviest birds able to fly, was once common through most of southern and central Europe and all the way to Mongolia, but was driven to extinction by hunting and changes in agricultural practises in most of its European range during the 19th and early 20th century.

Germany

Animal Ethics

MARCH 12, 2008

To the Editor: Re “ To Revive Hunting, States Turn to the Classroom ” (front page, March 8): Shame on West Virginia if it approves a bill that allows hunting education classes in public schools to become law. We should not use public schools to try to reverse the inexorable decline in the “sport” of hunting.

New York Times

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 29, 2008

Man-hunting is ruled out as a sport but not, at least with the same degree of unanimity, fox or bird hunting. In all these cases, of course, a minority opinion would support laws which go further than the present laws in limiting the circumstances in which men are entitled to cause pain to animals.

Animal Cruelty

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The Conservation section is frustratingly brief, stating the expected—massive loss of forest due to logging and a plantation economy, weak enforcement of laws regulating hunting and trade, understaffing of reserves and parks. Brickle, Ornithological History , by Bas van Balen, and the already cited Taxonomy and Systematics by Frank E.

Indonesia

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 23, 2009

If a legal right is an interest or expectation protected by law, then it follows that, under the Protection of Animals Act (1911), domestic and captive animals in England have rights, in that they are protected against being cruelly beaten, kicked, ill-treated, over-ridden, over-driven, over-loaded, tortured, infuriated, or terrified.

Animal Rights

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2012

Over a hundred organizations have again petitioned the Environmental Protection Agency to ban lead in hunting – a move opposed by many hunting groups. You’d think it would be a no-brainer but sadly hunters are resistant to a lead-bullet ban. At issue is that millions of birds each year end up eating the lead and dying.

Hunting

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Developed in the post-frontier era, the NAMWC helped put a stop to wanton wildlife destruction in an era where many species were being hunted and trapped ruthlessly to the brink of extinction. George Wuerthner, an ecologist and former hunting guide with a degree in wildlife biology, takes the debate a step further. Smith and Donald A.

Wildlife

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

In what some might see as an unlikely alliance, wildlife rehabilitators, veterinarians, and – yes – hunters have banded together to convince those who hunt to use copper bullets instead of lead. This is not protecting hunters’ rights; this is taking away a law that protects the health of both hunters and wildlife.

Hunters

10,000 Birds

MAY 22, 2015

Thanks to groups like Alley Cat Allies, outdoor and feral cats have become above the law. Neighbor B tells her that his cats wouldn’t be happy indoors, that cats’ hunting is “natural,” and that he has no intention of keeping his cats inside. What birds need is their own SWAT team.

Feral Cats

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2014

Say a duck hunter knows that the closed pools nearby has ducks and it’s dead in the pool where they are hunting. They call their friend to check the ducks with a drone and the ducks get flushed and go to the hunting pond? You may think these are extreme situations but we don’t have great laws in place for drones yet.

Bald Eagle

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2022

King Alexander I of Yugoslavia was known for his hunting forays into this forest, only months prior to his assassination during a 1934 state visit to France. By law, the foresters should have left 5 mature trees per hectare, but nothing remained. Photo by Surcin Municipality. We entered an area that was clear-cut in 2010.

Croatia

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

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. Use of non-toxic shot when hunting waterfowl has been mandatory, nationwide, since 1991. Click on photos for full sized images. www.youtube.com/watch?v=44fNo6B5gUI. v=44fNo6B5gUI.

Hunters

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2016

This species’ population is suspected to have decreased rapidly, owing to levels of hunting on the staging and wintering grounds, and habitat deterioration (largely as a result of land cultivation). In the Western Palearctic at least 20-30% of the population are shot each year, often accidentally during hunting of other species.”

Serbia

10,000 Birds

MAY 2, 2012

State law allows 6 dead ducks per day. Badeaux, who claims to never have violated hunting laws before this incident, faces up to six months in jail and a fine of $15,000. .” That is the defense of Lloyd “Chip” Badeaux , a city councilman in Thibodaux, Louisiana, for killing 48 whistling-ducks at a friend’s house.

Ducks

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Yes, you read that correctly – it was seemingly reversing the laws of gravity. I’ve seen this bird hunting, actively denuding dead branches in pursuit of what lies beneath. I remember the first time I saw one, it was a Streak-headed Woodcreeper and it was hopping up the underside of a branch. I was blown away.

Trinidad

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 15, 2017

It’s Christmas Bird Count season, and if you know Christmas Bird Counts you have probably heard the tale of how Frank Chapman invented this winter tradition to replace the older and considerably less optimal for birds tradition of the Christmas side hunt. Or specific members thereof. And I’m not even talking about dinner.

Ireland

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2024

As this book was published in 1913, it is now freely available online and you can read sentences such as “The Burman has no head, and succumbs at once to a comparatively small quantity of liquor” without violating any copyright laws. The species is also hunted for local consumption in Meghalaya (India), according to the HBW.

Burma

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2021

Nordmann’s Greenshank photographed hunting on the Cairns Esplanade [Ken Cross]. I would be away from my family for a time and my visiting in-laws from Tasmania….Perhaps This was the first record for my home state of Queensland, indeed a first record for anywhere in Australia away from the north west area of Western Australia.

Australia

Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

Still, with regard to human victims, the law doesn't accept the victimizer's enculturation as justification. law is even more speciesist than the U.S. law is even more speciesist than the U.S. Most believe that it's wrong to hunt animals for sport, but sport hunting is legal.

Speciesism

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2014

Since Kitsissunnguit has been preserved by law since 1988, the birds live in perfect harmony with nature and birdwatchers get a unique peephole into the birds life in their natural settings. The eider is the most common bird for hunting and eating, it lives near all of Greenland’s coasts and breeds on small islands such as Kitsissunnguit.

North America

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2019

The best moments are when the film simply lets the images do the work and we watch the eagles soar, hunt, and take care of their nest and their totally adorable eaglet, composer David Majzlin’s original music echoing our emotions of wonder. Preventing Philippine Eagle hunting: what are we missing? Tampos, G., & Salvador, D.

Eagles