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?" That can't be called hunting. asked Bob Coombs, 70, of Mount Vernon.

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MAY 21, 2014

Fishing accounted for 21 percent and hunting 7 percent. Coinciding with these figures is something we have suspected for a long time, the majority of Recreational Visitor Days are attributable to non-consumptive activities, followed by fishing activities and hunting activities. million in employment income was generated. Case in point.

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JULY 9, 2014

There were the neocons, which despite their association with the authoritarian right wing government of George W Bush were wide eyed idealists who believed that you could make the world a better place, and there were the realists, who thought the world was essentially bricked and the best you could hope for was some stability.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Despite efforts by animal rights activists to stop this hunt, it is scheduled to continue. New Jersey’s first bear hunt in five years is just a week away and set to go on as planned despite a last-ditch effort by several animal rights organizations to have the hunt postponed. That really sucks. On Monday, Nov.

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Critter News

JUNE 16, 2009

PETA has launched a spoof site for the Vancouver Olympic Games over seal hunting. I criticize PETA a lot, but in this case I think they are right on the money. Seal hunting is just plain wrong. I hate the seal slaughter. I think it's barbaric and should be ended. Slavery used to be a tradition in some societies.

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NOVEMBER 4, 2011

It was actively hunting the grassy slopes and barely paid me any attention as I tried to figure out how to get as close as possible without changing its behavior. But she landed right next to me, just four feet away. Notice that broken #6 primary on her right wing. She would hunt the hillsides right next to where I was sitting.

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MAY 22, 2013

Migratory Bird Hunting Stamp (Duck Stamp) sales were at their peak in the 1970′s with 2.1 This is wonderful news right? We don’t believe that this will change no matter how hard the FWS tries to change their marketing to encourage the non-hunting community to purchase the stamp. Let’s look at some facts.

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DECEMBER 2, 2011

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! She had inadvertently cached the food and come back for it in the midst of hunting for other things. Another revelation came when I discovered she was hunting well into the night.

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APRIL 2, 2012

Seeing several different American Bitterns up close and hunting in the open was a fascinating experience which probably explains why I took so many pictures of them. You see, the Black Point Wildlife Drive at Merritt Island National Wildlife Refuge is kind of ridiculous when it comes to good looks at American Bitterns. How ridiculous?

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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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APRIL 7, 2020

It didn’t occur to me till I started reading The Falcon Thief: A True Tale of Adventure, Treachery, and the Hunt for the Perfect Bird that there was also a possible threat to the eagle herself: poachers, who steal raptor eggs and chicks. We are cautioned to keep the location of the eagle a secret. 2019), and now this book.

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JUNE 11, 2020

These photos were actually taken right from my hotel room. House-hunting, apparently. Though with just two birds and no alcohol in sight, this may not be the right term. Black Ibis. Yes, I can understand how the bird got its name. Black Kite. No surcharge for the room despite being perfect for birders. Black-necked Stork.

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MARCH 10, 2022

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. What is the right stuff for you? In India, no one goes at mid-day because of the heat and the law. Yes, animals are guaranteed some time free of the camera-snapping crowds.

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NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Proposal: Creation of a Federal Wildlife Conservation Stamp A birder, wildlife watcher, photographer and non-hunter version of the Federal Migratory Bird Hunting and Conservation Stamp (aka Federal Duck Stamp). She says, “there’s just a cultural bias against anything related to hunting.”

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MARCH 19, 2014

The serpent-eagles of the genus Spilornis are an Asian group, not to be confused with two different genera found in Africa or, for that matter, the snake-eagles, a mostly African but also European and Asian genus (simple, right?). They live in forests and along forest edges where they specialise in hunting snakes and lizards.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Birds have wings, right? I observed the Sungrebe as it methodically hunted along the boundary of this floating mass of vegetation until the sun rose high enough in the sky to drive it into the shade. At this point, it is customary to temper one’s expectations by examining the “Status and Distribution” section.

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FEBRUARY 11, 2015

I hear them constantly calling with that steadily repeated squealing keeyuur, keeyuur, keeyuur , and I see them more often in early summer hunting for food for their nestlings. It was perched right next to the road on the auto tour route. That being said, I found this juvenile recently at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge.

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DECEMBER 30, 2021

We sailed right into a group of more than a dozen Hoatzins (cover photo, by Tyler Ficker) with their orange mohawks and blue facial skin. Because of that, the bird has a manure-like odour and is only hunted by humans for food in times of dire need” [ Source ]. Later, we would be seeing dolphins every day.

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FEBRUARY 4, 2016

A shot or two coming from the opposite bank, but they do not sound like geese shooting – more like boar hunting. A goose hunt sounds like a WWII battle. Yeah, right. We counted more than 35 of them, relaxed and fearless, clearly not hunted. Easy – it is forbidden to hunt at night. Watch for the dark beaks.”

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MARCH 15, 2012

There is a flock of Wild Turkeys that strut around like they own the place and they might very well be right. After all, there is no hunting and while I watched the turkeys they routed a feral cat that dared come near the flock of twelve which consisted of two tom turkeys and ten hens.

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JULY 9, 2015

In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. One White-eyed Buzzard has turned its back to us. It is too early to show.

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DECEMBER 11, 2012

Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. However it is now one of the world’s rarest animals after decades of relentless hunting and poaching. They are harmless to humans and their horns are used for wrestling other males for mating rights.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

Yet, one other hunting attempt in the same area I do remember. A female Mallard was running on the water right out of the thickets, flapping its wing frantically. The next memorable hunt came from winter 2006/07. It took place eight years later, in November 2004 by the bank of the Veliko Ratno Island.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2013

Let’s face it, they’d probably eat the nose right off Chuck Norris’s face. They spice up their vole-based diet with the occasional Snow Bunting or Ptarmigan or even a young, confused Short-eared Owl.

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JULY 28, 2024

The Gulf of Cadiz, from Cadiz itself, right along the coasts of Huelva and the Algarve to Cape St Vincent in Portugal, is a favourite hunting ground of mine and the operators willing to take you out have been on the increase in recent years. We’re fast approaching a preferred time of mine for going out on boats in search of seabirds.

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SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Ok, so before I moved my home county lists (and I count three in that number as I lived right at the corner of one) were probably my most seriously taken birding endeavors. Until this past weekend, you’d be right. This juvenile bird was not scared of anything as it foraged right off of boardwalk. Or you can skip it.

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AUGUST 17, 2012

She flew overhead glancing down from time to time as Buteos do when hunting. But suddenly a switch was flipped and she decided something wasn’t right. She turned and headed right for me with a few powerful flaps of her wings, screaming the whole way. She began vocalizing and wheeled upwards in a big wide arc.

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JUNE 26, 2013

The survival of songbirds depends in part upon eliminating illegal hunting. That means passing over the Mediterranean Sea and the Middle East, where you’re liable to get shot, trapped, or otherwise hunted. Photo by David Guttenfelder, courtesy of National Geographic ).

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JANUARY 24, 2013

Sure enough, the owl flew in closer and posed proudly on a snag right beside the road. I could hardly contain my excitement as I gazed at a Great Gray Owl and watched it hunt through someone else’s scope. Within minutes, I spotted a crisp, cold white bird flying right in front of the car.

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2014

Must be a joke, right? However, if we accept that some old reports were this species and not the very similar and easily confused Bat Falcon , it’s pretty likely that a few Orange-breasteds did hunt for Band-tailed Pigeons , parakeets, parrots, and other birds over the canopy of rainforests at the base of the Costa Rican mountains.

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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. What a horror! What a disaster!

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Critter News

AUGUST 12, 2009

ALF activists burned the hunting lodge of Novartis CEO Daniel Vasella. If you think it's fun killing animals in your own forest in Austria and bring them to your hunting estate, we will destroy it. Understand this: This will continue until you sever all ties with Huntingdon Life Sciences. Have you got any more hobbies Daniel?

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JUNE 15, 2023

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. What is the right stuff for you? In India, no one goes at mid-day because of the heat and the law. Yes, animals are guaranteed some time free of the camera-snapping crowds.

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APRIL 3, 2022

There are currently several Swamp Harriers that are hunting across the floodplains and the other birds are nervous. This goanna below is quietly hanging out beside the highway and in the background on the right you can observe a rather vocal Red-backed Fairywren. A few of the many Great Egrets. Goanna in a tree.

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OCTOBER 12, 2021

For example, hunting is not permitted in most NPS wilderness areas, but it is often allowed in wilderness areas managed by the other agencies. And it prohibits human infrastructure, e.g. , roads, buildings, dams, and pipelines, etc. However, there are some exceptions for all of these restrictions.)

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AUGUST 3, 2014

Whether the inspiration to this post came from Germany winning the U19 European football championship yesterday right on the heels of our (adult) team winning the world cup (Yes! They used to breed throughout the country, but were wiped out mostly through hunting more than 100 years ago. Four stars!!),

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MAY 28, 2015

They got the message right. And that is why the hides are where they are, not to admire the scenery (or shoot at it – hunting is prohibited in the reserve and the ban is enforced). km long bird path leading to the Palic 2 hide – ignore the confusing arrows pointing left, the path goes over the dyke at the right hand side).

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