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Crows, Contest Killing, and Communication

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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.

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Rip Van Winkle’s Crow Killing Contest

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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.

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How many birds are killed by windmills and other green energy projects?

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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.

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Whooping Cranes Shot and Killed in Kentucky

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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.).

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Birding Where St. George Killed the Dragon

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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.

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Solar Plant Stopped Killing Birds: One Weird Trick!

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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?

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NBC News 4 Covers the Killing of Snowy Owls at JFK Airport – Updated!

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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.

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