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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.
I’ve just finished reading THE PLUME HUNTER (Torrey House Press, December 2011) by Renée Thompson. Some of the most prolific killing fields were in the marshes of the American West (I knew about Florida but was surprised at how widespread it was), where men shot birds such as grebes, terns, pelicans, snowy egrets, and great egrets.
It seems like every 6 months or so, the Center for Consumer Freedom, a front group for the tobacco, alcohol and restaurant industries sends out a press release about how many animals PETA allegedly kills. You can read about these people here.
With a readership primarily of students, Jones—wisely, I believe—refrained from including the controversial efforts to kill Barred Owls in order to save the spotted ones. Saving the Spotted Owl—Zalea’s Story by Nicola Jones, illustrated by Alexandra Finkeldey Kids Can Press, 2023 ISBN: 978-1-525-30555-9 $19.99
Researchers told the Tribune that the testing gave the shelter animals "a second chance at life," while records obtained by the Tribune revealed that the labs had killed 116 of the 190 strays last year. Only 74 animals survived the research process to be adopted out as pets.
If you were in a position to take non-birders outside to promote conservation, say a local polititian or the press or whoever could get active to increase biodiversity values in whichever way – do not consider taking them near Black-tailed Godwits. Seriously, they hate our guts.
Legend has it that anyone who kills one of these pigeons will go blind – for once, a superstition I highly appreciate and which I wish we could expand to all other bird species as well. The second, even more pressing area is female education. We will establish a series of online workshops, trainings, and seminars for young women.
We got some press ! Wait, you actually killed someone? We got some good press and the duck is wandering around Manhattan now. A thousand apologies. I left the knife I was planning on cutting the band off with in the body of the witness. Good news, though! To: Sparrow. From: Tyrannus. Date: 11 October 2018. RE: Band on Duck.
I want to give credit to the publishers, Princeton University Press and the Natural History Museum of London, for the quality of the printing. Princeton University Press, 2011, 192 pp. All photographs, with the exception of the last, are used with the permission of Princeton University Press. Green, Tree, Leaf, or Poison Dart?
The leopards place their kill in a tree, protecting it from poaching by other predators. So, the best way to find a leopard is to find the kill. It was a fresh kill, and though it might take hours, the observers knew that eventually the leopard was going to come back for his breakfast.
From the Associated Press: Blue whales are returning to Alaska in search of food and could be re-establishing an old migration route several decades after they were nearly wiped out by commercial whalers, scientists say. The hunting peaked in 1931 with more than 29,000 animals killed in one season.
Imprisoned NFL star Michael Vick will be allowed to finish his sentence under home confinement because there is no room at a halfway house for him, a government official told The Associated Press Thursday. He also admitted to participating in the killing of several underperforming dogs.
Four senior Wildlife Officers have been arrested and imprisoned after the state Congolese Wildlife Agency (ICCN) pressed charges for complicity in the destruction of the protected forests of Virunga National Park in the east of DR Congo. And these particular guys deserve it.
The illustrations of bird behavior–a Laughing Falcon with a kill, Swainson’s, a Crested Caracara with its head thrown back–offer opportunities for a little individual style to shine through. Press, 2000), and over 140 journal and magazine articles and conference proceedings. Princeton University Press, 2017.
The latest press release from the USFWS. What this press release doesn’t mention about the amount of money pumped into the economy by the National Wildlife Refuge System, as stated in the Banking on Nature Report, about 72 percent of total expenditures are generated by non-consumptive activities on refuges!
The NRDC's press release in response to the Bush administration's actions can be found here. Why does the Bush administration think that it is wrong for the Japanese to kill whales but permissible for the U.S. Critics contend sonar has harmful effects on whales, possibly by damaging their hearing, and other marine mammals worldwide.
He is the author of several books, including Atheism: A Philosophical Justification (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1990) and The Case Against Christianity (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1991). You should survive as best you can, and killing the birds and eating them is the only way, given the situation as described.
To find out more of what the meat industry and pharmaceutical companies don't want you to know, read this Associated Press column by Margie Mason and Martha Mendoza. Here are just a few facts drawn from the column: Drug-resistant infections killed more than 65,000 people in the U.S. 70% of the antibiotics used in the U.S.
Doubtless it may and will be suggested that someone opposed to inflicting suffering on animals but not to painlessly killing them could still consistently eat the flesh of animals that had been reared and slaughtered painlessly; but Singer rejects such a suggestion on three counts.
Photo of a Golden Eagle at a Wyoming wind farm by Dina Cappiello/Associated Press. 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. In what is apparently the first case of its kind, a U.S.
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.
history; they killed a young boy just to prove they could commit the perfect crime and were the models for the murderers in Hitchcock’s film Rope. The University of Michigan Press, 2012. Photograph Credits: Book cover courtesy of University of Michigan Press. By William Rapai. Hardcover, $24.95
Charlie was never more content than when she was perched on my shoulder, her wing pressed against my neck and cheek. No human can divine what a mated pair of geese or eagles may feel for one another, but stories abound of birds,especially Canada Geese , who spurned all offers from members of the opposite sex for years after a mate was killed.
A poisoned rodent can kill whatever eats it, and death by poison is a very bad way to go. The rodents eat the bait, stagger out of the building looking for water, and are easy prey for whatever carnivore happens to be passing by, be it wildlife or someone’s pet. as well as a rare mammal, the California fisher.
But that may be an exercise in closing the barn door after the horse is out, if the Associate Press story linked to above is any indication: ”… the wind energy industry has pushed for, and the White House is currently evaluating, giving companies permission to kill a set number of eagles for 30 years.
What wasn’t publicised at the time, but the scientist later both admitted and owned, is that the kingfisher was then killed and collected for scientific reasons. In part this was due to the outstanding way the reporting was handled by the press. I’m not going to rehash the arguments for scientific collecting here.
May 29, 2010 BP finally announces that Operation “Top Kill”, the effort to force drilling mud into the wellhead and seal it, has failed. June 2, 2010 BP apparently bans workers from showing dead or dying wildlife and from talking to the press. Government officials estimate that thousands of them are badly sealed.
She seamlessly interweaves memories of her bryologist father (he collected mosses), statistics on building-killed birds and the Audubon volunteers who collect them, details of modern taxidermist techniques seen on a visit to a Pennsylvania taxidermist, and the sight of hundreds of bird study skins at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates.
Every now and the the loosing Loon would disappear like it had been killed and sunk. From a press release about that research: >Common Loons (Gavia immer) nest on lakes across Canada and the northern U.S., Then it would reappear way far away and they’d stay apart for a while. But now there is some research on that.
That sounds important (the ABC press release is here ), but what is the dispute really about and what happens next? The Preliminaries : Paragraphs 1-5 identify the issues at a high level: the lawsuit involves a proposed turbine at a facility near Ottawa NWR in Ohio that will allegedly kill birds in violation of federal law.
Ironically, the bird in the photograph served as the model for the bird in the lithograph; it was killed, skinned, preserved and stuffed a few days after the photograph was taken. Princeton University Press, 2014 (also published by Bloomsbury Publishing, London, 2013). These are not the words of a scientist. by Errol Fuller.
Nevertheless, killing an eagle is a federal crime in the United States, and recently a wind energy company linked to eagle deaths settled with the federal government. The National Audubon Society and American Bird Conservancy both issued press releases blasting the administration for the rule change.
I’m not sure why all the birds scattered at its approach, Frigatebirds are known for stealing the catch of other birds, not for killing elegant, cinnamon-chested Avocets, but scatter they did and only a couple of hundred came back down. Behrstock, and Seth Davidson, with maps by Cindy Lippincott, Texas A&M University Press, 2008.
In addition to longtails and rats, Wingate battles developers (of course), a rare Snowy Owl that kills 5% of the cahow population (Wingate shoots the owl, to the dismay of many), and the U.S. Beacon Press, 2012. Ultimately, the story always comes back to the cahows, whose population grows slowly. —————-.
In the 19th- and early 20th-centuries, shorebirds were killed outright for their meat, a trade that only ended with the passage of federal legislation (which still excepts game birds such as woodcock and snipe). Karlson Princeton University Press, June 2024; UK August 2024 Hardcover; 8.25 0691220956; ISBN-13 ?
Below is a press release about the mailing. Press Release Governors: Stop Ecodestructive University Training! On March 11th, RPA sent the governors of all 50 states a letter and two factsheets urging them to help get their land-grant universities (LGUs) out of the meat industry. Another went out last Friday. Thanks and best wishes!
What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? Those who harvest are unfortunately myopic, seeing only the instant gratification of the meal or the kill. Those that are out to kill this species for their own pleasure.
Most of Waldman’s Introduction, for example, is based on five photographs and drawings illustrating random, perhaps representational, examples of how New Yorkers relate to nature in the past (a shark is killed in the Gowanus Canal in 1950) and the present (the fight to re-install the nest of my spark bird, Pale Male). Just a little.
Occasional stories in the British press remind us that such disgraceful violence against Scottish raptors, while perhaps no longer celebrated so triumphantly on canvas, has not yet been consigned to the annals of history.
Fuller has not preached about the evils of the human practices that killed and dislocated the Passenger Pigeon; he hasn’t moaned and groaned or sentimentalized. In both countries, birds have been killed for reasons of food, commerce, and sport. It wasn’t just the mass killings in so many ways. The Passenger Pigeon.
And once in a while, there is a check-in on what was happening in the United States–the killing of a bird protection warden in the Everglades, investigations into millinery sweatshops, the earlier passage of bird protection legislation. Aurum Press, June 2018, 336 pp. ISBN-10: 1781316546; ISBN-13: 978-1781316542.
Dan Richards, president of the California Fish and Game Commission, is shown in the photo, holding a mountain lion he reportedly hunted and killed in Idaho, according to Western Outdoor Press, which published the photo. Hunting mountain lion is legal in Idaho, but illegal in California. KCRA 3 could not reach Richards for comment.
Being homeless, at first, this cat became one of the top-figures in press, both newspapers and TVs: even Oprah Winfrey has talked about her in own talk-show! All in all, Karen had to make a dramatic and hard decision of mercy killing to stop the agony of her pet, which happened on October 2008, when Scarlett peacefully passed in Karen’s arms.
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