10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

The number of people who hunt waterfowl in the US has declined since the mid 1990s. Sales of duck stamps have funded the preservation of wetlands and other wildlife habitat, which in turn has supported an increase in waterfowl populations. This has resulted in a reduction of the number of duck stamps sold.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

The wildlife official in question is the President of the California Fish and Game Commission. He is a proponent of trophy hunting and was photographed with a dead mountain lion in Idaho. Full story here.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 23, 2012

Outcry is growing against one of California’s top wildlife officials after a photo of him holding a dead mountain lion surfaced online last week. Hunting mountain lion is legal in Idaho, but illegal in California. KCRA 3 could not reach Richards for comment.

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Mountain Lions Lions Humane Society Of The United States Idaho 100

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2012

If you ever wonder why so many American birders leaven their love of nature with a little self-loathing, look no further than the National Survey of Fishing, Hunting, and Wildlife-Associated Recreation , which the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service conducts every five years or so. But that’s old news. billion (up 21%).

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

There were reasons to think that the White-winged Guan had been extirpated by over-hunting. Hunting pressure in a heavily populated region (even for Nineteenth Century standards) and easy access were likely to result in the extirpation of the Guan in the regions surrounding the site of collection. Photo: Adam Castillo.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 2, 2015

Serbia has a large number of pigeon fanciers and a long history of lack of law enforcement in the field of wildlife crime ( Newsweek on poaching in the Balkans ). APRIL 12: Second flight of a b h and then she hunts. ” Falcons do hunt pigeons, we all know that, but what is a Kamikaze pigeon? And a war to extinction??

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

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. Within its Belt and Road Initiative, China asked for this location for the new harbour.

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Critter News

AUGUST 27, 2008

They were all hunting associations AND the National Rifle Association. Wildlife Crime Watch" is a new program implemented by the Virginia Department of Game and Inland Fisheries. Emphasis will be placed on wildlife and environmental issues but traditional crime prevention will also be addressed. Sounds intriguing.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

With the proposed hunting seasons on sandhill cranes being discussed in Tennessee, Kentucky and Wisconsin, we must not forget the whooping crane, which travels and winters in the big sandhill crane flocks. More states will doubtless join the queue of those proposing hunts. Another thing to consider. Now, it’s time to go to the top.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 17, 2020

For a land that can lay claim to an abundance of such wonderful native wildlife, it’s peculiar that the national symbolism of Scotland is so populated by mythological creatures. But there’s new hope for Scotland’s Golden Eagles as these atrocious acts are brought to the public attention and their perpetrators prosecuted.

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Lions Eagles Hunting Lamb 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2014

Of course, in real life this cannot be so simple as good news. This is one of the cases that illustrates the difficulty of so much wildlife management, from trying to decide what is ‘natural’ to figuring out what specifically to do about it.

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Critter News

MARCH 22, 2010

From Vietnam News. Dr Scott Roberton, head of Wildlife Conservation Society (WCS), said that hunting wild animals for meat and trafficking had been happening in many countries, especially developing ones. In Viet Nam, hunting and trade in wild animals had been alarming, he said. Sounds just awful.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2013

It’s been a busy week in bird news–some of it bad, some of it good, and some of it just plain head-scratchin’ Let’s start with the odd stuff first. In a move that brings new meaning to the term “farm team,” one of the min0r-league affiliates of the Philadelphia Phillies has a new mascot.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 20, 2016

This year’s awards will be handed out on April 27th, and one of the finalists has devoted himself to saving migrating birds of pray from illegal hunting. But along the way, up to 18,000 per year fall victim to illegal hunting for food and sport.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2014

The first most readers have probably been aware of, the cheerleader hunter who has been in the news for, well, hunting game animals and being attractive and blonde. Regular readers of this site might be able to think of a much discussed example, that of birding on National Wildlife Refuges versus hunting.

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Critter News

APRIL 30, 2012

Unfortunately, he's also one of the presidents of the World Wildlife Fund whose Swedish chapter supports the maintenance of the wolf population. From Wildlife Extra. Because every year the good king runs an elk hunt in Sweden, along with his son Prince Carl Philip. Yet to hunt the elk, he himself uses hunting dogs.

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Culling Wolves Sweden Hunting 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2019

Matt was working on his own US Big Year, and wanted to join me for the hunt. I want to especially thank Simon Tickle, Duncan Wright, Clare and Grant Morton, Patrick O’Donnell, and Jason Crotty, who all went out of their way to provide the latest in news, guides, and where to find birds! Giles Daubney – Melbourne Australia.

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Critter News

JANUARY 10, 2010

News from last week: *A US Federal Judge rejects claims that Ringling’s Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Circus mishandles endangered Asian elephants; *A primate at a Charles River laboratory facility dies from being run through a commercial washer; *Miss Newfoundland defends the Canadian seal hunt; *Cambodian prosecutions of illegal logging and wildlife (..)

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

I seriously doubt it, despite the Greenpeace report in Wildlife Extra News. Tags: Japan hunting greenpeace whaling. It's too much a matter of international pride. (I I know, I know, I'm always a pessimist.but I'm so good at it!)

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Whales Whaling Japan Sanctuary 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

Many of these stories will be known to avid readers of environmental news items and social media. This includes, to my delight, a brief account of Project SNOWstorm , a collaboration of volunteer “researchers, banders, wildlife veterinarians, and pathologists” (p.

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Cyprus Slaughter Slaughtered Research 256

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Hence, I was quite surprised with a brave, almost exciting paper by Brown, Forbes and Symes: “Recent history of the Egyptian Vulture in Southern Africa” (Vulture News, 2000). Get more serious, if you want to be taken seriously… And so, the aspiring scientists soon learn that the absolute highlight of scientific writing is – boredom!

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Sudan Macedonia Botswana Serbia 231

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Just For Fun Avian ID Quiz #9: A New Week, A New Quiz Waxwing Working a String Snipe Hunt in the Bird Blogosphere Black is Back In Praise of Bionic Condors About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2011

who can be found regularly at the bird and wildlife blog Birdland West. A reporter on one of their news shows asserted that Woody was actually based on the Acorn Woodpecker and when several listeners questioned that another reporter — who at the time was the official All Things Considered bird commentator ( ed note: guess who?

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Woodpeckers Wildlife Rehabilitation Seattle Wildlife 230

10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2011

These Blasts From The Past American Seabirds Thrown a Lifeline Snipe Hunt in the Bird Blogosphere Breeding Site of Large-billed Reed-Warbler Found Queens Christmas Bird Count IATB #137 Deadline About the Author Mike Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but what he really aspires to be is a naturalist.

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Deer 2011 New York Cats 124

10,000 Birds

APRIL 26, 2013

So, the good news is I defended my thesis successfully. The bad news is I then celebrated too hard, fell down, and broke my wrist. Lest you think that modern technology robbed all the challenge from my hunt, though, I would point out that there were a couple of confounding factors.

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St. Louis Sparrows Kansas City Kansas 167

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

But in Iraq, and more exactly, Kurdistan and Iraqi Kurdistan, they are supposed to be there (and are regularly hunted and eaten) and the fighting is not supposed to be there. From National Geographic News : Cassin’s auklets are tiny diving seabirds that look like puffballs. BBC has the story as a video.

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Critter News

APRIL 13, 2010

He was transporting them across state lines from Ohio to a hunting preserve in South Carolina. The deer still got screwed because they ended up at the hunting preserve, but any kind of sentence for wildlife trafficking must be enforced. The deer were not tested for disease. He was sentenced to 21 months in prison.

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Trafficking Illegal Trafficking Deer South Carolina 100

Critter News

JANUARY 25, 2010

Tags: elk wildlife crime State of Washington poaching national parks.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 8, 2009

This article describes the devastation being inflicted on Montana's wildlife by serial poachers. Tags: wildlife crime fish and wildlife montana poaching us trophy hunting. It's also an insight into how serial poachers think.

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Montana Killing Wildlife Hunting 100

Critter News

JULY 12, 2009

From Wildlife Extra. Of 679 whales reported to have been killed during the 2008-2009 whale hunt in Antarctica, 304 were female. Tags: whales Japan hunting whaling. Leave it to the Japanese. Always classy. Four of the female whales were lactating, and 192 were pregnant at the time of death.

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Whales Whaling Killing Japan 100

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Natural areas include Pelham Bay Park, Van Cortlandt Park, Woodlawn Cemetery, New York Botanical Garden, and the Bronx Zoo. Most importantly, the section ends with a list of questions for future studies and recommendations for wildlife and habitat management. I didn’t grow up in the Bronx, but my best friend did.).

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Critter News

AUGUST 16, 2008

Hunters would then pay to hunt in the pens. Tags: wildlife trafficking blood sport fox hunting us. He was caught after a yearlong investigation by Virginia game officials that included the undercover purchases of 54 red foxes and 47 coyotes from Blevins. Often they were injured.

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Critter News

AUGUST 1, 2009

India is to amend its wildlife crime laws to protect the country's tigers, a government minister said. Environment and forest minister Jairam Ramesh said that speeding up justice as well as hefty fines are needed to strengthen the Wildlife Protection Act. Tags: India tigers wildlife endangered species. But is it enough?

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Critter News

JANUARY 15, 2010

In charging documents filed in King County Superior Court, prosecutors contend Dr. Tohru Shigemura made repeated trips to Washington to hunt bear, taking animals out of season and on tribal lands. Tags: wildlife trafficking gall bladders bears.

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Trafficking Seattle Bears Washington 100

Critter News

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Grouse are a bird species which the hen harriers hunt and their population is also declining. Tags: birds wildlife crime hen harriers grouse britain. These birds of prey are being seriously threatened by shootings, poisonings and other attempts to disrupt breeding on grouse moors, probably by gamekeepers on estates.

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Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 4, 2010

To the Editor: Re “ Working to Keep a Heritage Relevant ” (news article, Sept. 26): The “heritage” of hunting will continue its decline into irrelevance and will eventually disappear. First, there is no “heritage” of hunting as it is practiced today. In the early days trappers and others hunted for survival. 29, 2010

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New York Times New York Hunters Slaughtered 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 19, 2024

It’s like finding the crown jewel of wildlife sightings. When you think “Alaska wildlife,” the Bald Eagle probably flies right into your mind. Despite once being endangered due to hunting and pesticides, Bald Eagles have made a remarkable comeback, getting delisted from the U.S. Spotting an eagle in Alaska?

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Alaska Eagles Bald Eagle Deer 218