Sentences with phrase «birds by hunters»

However, the Cocker Spaniel has long been a bird dog, and they are still used to flush out and retrieve birds by hunters today.

Not exact matches

Bald eagles have made a remarkable recovery across the United States since the pesticide DDT was banned 45 years ago, but the majestic birds are still dying from another environmental poison: lead from bullets and shotgun pellets in wildlife carcasses left behind by hunters.

For example, narwhals in northwest Greenland have long been hunted by subsistence hunters, notes study co-author Fernando Ugarte, head of the department of birds and mammals at the Greenland Institute of Natural Resources in Nuuk.

Goja, named by Jane Goodall and the poster bird for a project to save northern bald ibises from extinction, was killed by illegal hunters

This boom - and - bust scenario also lines up well with arguments by some that human immigration from Europe may have artificially swelled the ranks of the passenger pigeon by eliminating their Native American hunters and foragers, who competed with the birds for nuts and other forest foods.

In the new work, the researchers quantify the benefit to people helped by the birds and test how much more guiding occurs when the honey hunters attract the birds first with a «trill - grunt» call.

They found that frugivores which are not targeted by hunters — such as small birds, bats and marsupials — are only able to disperse small seeds, which are associated with small trees.

Humans killed off the giant birds by overhunting, a new study says, although the hunters did not use bows and arrows.

We learn about Toronto activists who've drastically cut collision deaths by placing small markers on mirrored or clear - glass building surfaces that birds otherwise can't perceive; a fight between hunters and preservationists over the ortolan bunting, still a culinary delicacy despite its trapping being declared illegal in 1999; and monitors at a 9/11 memorial in New York, making sure that a temporary light sculpture doesn't confuse birds at the height of migration season.

The truth is, nobody knows for sure where this small spaniel with the waterproof coat and keen nose came from, but by 1870, the American Brown Water Spaniel, as he was often called, was established in the Midwest as a versatile hunter that could find, flush, and retrieve birds with uncanny ability.

They were bred as gundogs used by bird hunters to flush the game from the heavy briar.

The setter shows a hunter he's found birds by «setting» down on his belly.

Birds and cats have been known to co-exist peacefully, but remember that felines are hunters by instinct.

The 1916 tract The Domestic Cat: Bird Killer, Mouser & Destroyer of Wild Life; Means of Utilizing and Controlling It, authored by then - Massachusetts state ornithologist Edward Howe Forbush, in original form furnished the quasi-scientific basis for more than half a century of concerted efforts by hunters and birders to add cats to state lists of legally hunted species.

Their love of water and retrieving meant they were also eager to get birds downed by hunters.

Yes, I do believe that most dogs, especially those owned by first time hunters, should be sent out to a pro for early introduction to bird and gun.