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After scrolling through piles of furious emails regarding a recent blog about Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest , it seemed to me that all of us needed Dr. Phil. The subject was not hunting; it was contest killing. And being anti-hunting does not weaken our position when it comes to contest killing.”. It will never happen.
Some people think it’s just plain fun to kill enormous numbers of animals and pile up their bodies, and when there’s no “bag limit” it’s legal to do so. Obviously killing contests have nothing to do with traditional hunting, and “animal abuse” is normally used when describing domestic animals.
However, in this post, I’d like to lay out the basic numbers as we pretend to know them about overall bird mortality, human related causes of mortality, and somewhere in there I’ll note that the number of birds that are killed by windmills is so small that it says “zero” on my pie chart.
Making bad news worse, officials speculate that the Whooping Cranes likely weren’t killed by hunters, but instead by thrill-seekers. Any loss of the cranes is a huge blow, as the total current population hovers around 600. What thrill there is in murdering an endangered species, I’ll never know.).
Nearby, the Karas River is anything but a river – in this section, it is a water body that was killed by cutting off its curves, covering banks with rocks and concrete and forcing the former river to flow in the straight line. A lot of Mallard on the river, some Eurasian Coots and a few Common Goldeneyes.
Some estimates suggested that something like 28,000 birds would be killed per year in this plant. Also, cats kill many more per year. Far more birds are killed running into windows. ” The right thing to do is to figure out how to kill fewer birds. It just turns into gas and dust. So, what to do?
Below is the blog post as it originally ran: It’s not every day that you get a call from Jeff Gordon, president of the American Birding Association , asking if you will reach out to a reporter who has contacted him about a story on the Snowy Owl killings happening at JFK Airport.
Cyanide bombs are used to kill predator species that prey on livestock, but the devices unintentionally kill thousands of animals each year. Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is taking steps to stop the use of M-44 devices that deliver sodium cyanide on public land.
The revised guidelines now recommend both Food and Drug Administration (FDA)–approved isoxazolines and Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)–approved mosquito repellent products to kill mosquitoes and help prevent the spread of heartworms. Previously, only EPA-approved products were recommended.
However, no data exists on how many pets have been injured or killed in car accidents. Around 45% of U.S. households own dogs and 26% of households own cats out of the total U.S. population of 128 million households in 2020, according to AVMA data. Owners often travel with their pets, whether for vacation or even a trip to the veterinarian.
Though he destroyed more than 1,000 nests worth of chicks and eggs of the American White Pelican nearly obliterating a colony on land he rented, a guilty plea by Minnesota farmer Craig Staloch means that he faces, at most, six months in jail.
Do you or someone you love still doubt the apocalyptic ecological impacts of outdoor domesticated cats? The Oatmeal serves up a must-see infographic that makes the connection between cats and the number 2,912,000,000 crystal clear.
Imagine, though, the chances of being killed in a helicopter by a frigatebird! At our speed and height we would have crashed into the drink – our certain death avoided only because of a last minute swerve by the bird. I’m glad we lived. I wish I had seen the bird.
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As you know, a lot of birds are killed in the U.S. If so, the frequency of road kill should decline over time. Over the course of 30 years, the researchers collected all the road-killed swallows they encountered while doing their other research. because of collisions with vehicles.
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The only way we know that the species even existed is because of the single specimen and the notes Bloxam took, which, in addition to the part reproduced above, included that the bird that became the specimen was “killed hopping about in a tree.” ” … Extinction is forever. What a horror! What a disaster! What a wrong!
This is the lesson that Seaside Aquaculture owner Khan Vu has hopefully learned after being charged, found guilty, and sentenced under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
The agency that oversees the city’s airports has added the majestic snowy owl to the list of birds it kills to protect airplanes from bird strikes. The Port Authority’s “wildlife specialists” started exterminating the owls Saturday, killing three at JFK Airport with a shotgun, a Port Authority source said.
I thought that by going to see this particular bird in Staten Island’s Great Kills Park I might not only get to see a great bird but might also evoke some nice memories as well. Happily for me the traffic wasn’t heavy and I made it to Great Kills Park in almost no time.
Mr Kerridge says it is a misconception that cats kill a huge number of birds. Feral cats kill huge numbers of birds. Birds are, with reptiles amphibians, and mammals, the prey that feral cats kill. For example, how many lies can you find in the quote below from this article ?
I have received countless numbers of wild birds mangled and/or killed by outdoor/feral cats, such as the Orange-crowned Warbler pictured here. Can you convince yourselves that your cat does not kill birds, when statistics show pet cats only bring home 23% of their kills? I have been a wild bird rehabilitator for 25 years.
In addition to killing birds of prey, brodifacoum has also killed coyotes, grey foxes, red foxes, kit foxes, mountain lions, bobcats, black bears, Pacific fishers, and other animals, including domestic dogs and cats. Syngenta warns that “Talon” is “hazardous to dogs, cats, pigs, poultry and other wildlife.”
Thus the decision was made to kill 3,600 Barreds, and it’s hard to fault the inescapable logic of doing so, as one Audubon Society director expressed it: On the one hand, killing thousands of owls is completely unacceptable. Other animal control issues that involve mass killing make for easier decisions, according to Peter P.
This is approximated by the size of the animal, but really, this has to be adjusted for depending on modality of killing. An abstract from a recent paper in Nature : Anthropogenic threats, such as collisions with man-made structures, vehicles, poisoning and predation by domestic pets, combine to kill billions of wildlife annually.
He wrote a column , not for Audubon, but for the Orlando Sentinal , in which he advocated the killing of feral cats instead of the use of trap-neuter-release. Feral cats kill birds by the billions in the United States and the only real solution to the problem is removal and euthanasia, along with heavy fines for those caught dumping cats.
Interesting to learn, for example, that in 1885 more than five million birds were killed in the United States for the millinery industry, and that in 1904 market hunters in Oregon killed over 120 tons of waterfowl for the restaurant trade in San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle.
For instance, assume (and I will NOT stand by this number, it is just one I’ve heard here and there) that kitty cats in America kill 50,000,000 birds a year. Hardly any Sandhill Cranes are killed by domestic (including ferrel domestic) cats. In fact, there are certainly a few cats killed by hawks every year. Raptors either.
Britain’s Peregrine population collapsed in the early 1960s, the result of poisoning by organochlorine pesticides that either killed the birds or rendered them infertile. The unfortunate pigeons have few fans, so almost everyone is happy to see the falcons killing and eating them.
Neighbor B’s cats are constantly on neighbor A’s property, urinating and defecating all over her garden, spreading disease, maiming and killing the birds who flock to her feeders. Neighbor A’s private property and peace of mind are both suffering because of the cats, which are killing government-protected species. What can she do?
A Cooper’s Hawk almost killed me this weekend. Well, “almost killed” may be modest exaggeration, but I happened to look out my window at the exact time the hawk was hurtling toward it. You’ve got to imagine that the only thing better than winning a gold medal would be getting the gold AND a bunch of lifers.
Almost every single outdoor pet cat, feral cat, or stray kills other animals , no matter how well fed the cat is through other sources. As anyone who follows this blog knows, outdoor cats are a veritable holocaust for wild birds, small mammals, reptiles, amphibians, and even insects.
As those who are not into protecting the environment would probably like to point out, “People don’t kill birds. I am afraid if I told you which snipe, I would have to kill you. I know I just published a separate post on the Japanese Paradise Flycatcher. Should be a role model for other warblers. Yes, this is a snipe.
Nonnative species have huge impacts on wildlife species everywhere… mice kill seabird chicks in their burrows, rats eat endangered bird eggs, overpopulated deer clear the understory of forests, pigs root out native plants and terrestrial animals, cats kill anything they can get their paws on. The logic of this is ridiculous.
wind-energy company has admitted that its farms have killed birds, and has settled with prosecutors. expressed particular regret that its wind farms killed two Golden Eagles. Photo of a Golden Eagle at a Wyoming wind farm by Dina Cappiello/Associated Press. In what is apparently the first case of its kind, a U.S.
American Crow carrying a road-killed bird Some birds die anonymously on their long trek – unmourned, unloved, and unknown. No other predator that I know of in North America kills and sometimes leaves its prey entirely intact, uneaten. But even more dangerous are cars.
Another product has been invented that could cut down on the number of wild birds killed by domestic cats. The testimonials all credit Birdsbesafe with reducing the number of birds killed by pet cats. Susan Willson, who led a field study involving pet cats in 2013 and 2014. Three of my eight are prolific bird killers.
Because whenever I encounter one of these insects I’m either trying to avoid it or kill it, not take a picture of it, and this was the only uncopywrited photo I could find. Why am I posting a photo of a hippoboscid on a Red-tailed Tropicbird, a bird I’ve never rehabbed?
These birds will even stand stubborn on road kill as large road trains up to 53 metres long go by. Wedge-tailed Eagle You don’t need to worry about the Wedge-tailed Eagle going hungry, as there is always plenty of road kill about.
The Navajo also use eagle feathers as part of rituals, but don’t believe in killing the birds. The ruling is important because as recently as three years ago, several Hopi were prosecuted for illegally killing eagles. The permit allows the Hopis a total of 40 birds that may be sacrificed for use in religious ceremonies.
In a news report from 2009, the DNA quoted a senior Forest Department official who feared that the poachers must have killed around 20 tigers in the region in just five months. Earlier, a large number of villagers were being killed by tigers: 11 in 2006, 13 in 2007 and more than 26 during 2008.
Superstitions about the Red-tailed Streamerbird’s supernatural powers continue today and it’s considered bad luck to kill one. Which is no easy feat if the words to an old Jamaican folk song are to be believed: “Doctor Bud a cunny bud, hard bud fi dead” (“The Doctor Bird is a clever bird that cannot be easily killed”).
As the year is closing, I am looking back to realise, despite it being such an awful year, it’s far from the worst I had, it doesn’t even come close (it’s the mileage that’s killing me, I guess). Birdwise, I am lagging some 10 to 15 species behind my usual tallies, considering everything – not too bad at all.
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