Critter News

MARCH 16, 2009

A limit on the hunting of polar bears by sportsmen and native Arctic people will top the agenda at an international summit in Norway tomorrow, seen as vital to the survival of the predator. Native and sport polar bear hunters may be facing more restrictions due to increasing threats to bear populations. In Norway, stalking is banned.

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Polar Bears Bears Hunters Norway 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

Great Frigatebirds engage in “unihemispheric sleep” on hunting trips of six to ten days, never landing, sleeping less than an hour in a 24-hour cycle, often keeping one-half of their brain awake while the other slept. Pause while we all try to imagine what our lives would be like if we could do that.)

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Cyprus Slaughtered Slaughter Research 249

Animal Ethics

JANUARY 9, 2008

But most important, they are beginning to starve, because the sea ice they depend on for hunting seals, their main food, is melting at a very rapid rate because of global warming. Though hunting still plays a role and led to a bilateral treaty with Russia, ratified last September, climate change is the major threat to polar bears today.

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New York Times Polar Bears New York Alaska 40

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2021

Nordmann’s Greenshank photographed hunting on the Cairns Esplanade [Ken Cross]. The species nest in Russia in trees and for the Russians looking it was for too-many years, ‘Nyet, Nyet, Nyet” until finally in June 2019 a Russian scientist, looked up, smiled, nodded, and muttered a thankful, “Dah!”

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Australia 2019 Thailand Russia 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2023

Shockingly, the Ashy-throated Parrotbill apparently is a species heavily hunted for bird fighting in Guizhou Province, China ( source ). If being hunted by evil humans was not enough, Ashy-throated Parrotbills are also hosts of the parasitic Common Cuckoo. Shame on the researchers.

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Eggs China Mammals Birds 166

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.”

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Montenegro Serbia Greece Bulgaria 200

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2022

” Incidentally, the large number of woodcocks hunted also established the basis for a study analyzing the importance of millipedes in the autumn-winter diet of the species. I am not sure I understand the logic of this, but I guess evolution does. A bird serves one person.”

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Italy Deer Russia France 173

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2023

Plume hunting raged supreme 150 years ago, when egret feathers were part of a worldwide trade in feathers and other bird parts, used for women’s hats and other articles of clothing (but mostly hats), delighting the upper classes and practically wiping out bird species. It has become the cornerstone of U.S.

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Connecticut Washington Legislation Hunting 147