Plume hunting is the hunting of wild birds to harvest their feathers, especially the more decorative plumes which were sold for use as ornamentation,...

endangered by relentless plume hunting, since hat makers in Europe and the United States demanded large numbers of egret plumes, leading to breeding birds...

Space Center at least as far north as South Carolina's Myrtle Beach. Plume hunting in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries almost drove the roseate...

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humans arrived to their respective islands, likely as a result of human hunting. It is unclear if humans ever coexisted with the terror birds of South...

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survival, as did the loss of wintering habitat in the Caribbean and plume hunting. Small-scale logging in the 1800s may actually have increased the Bachman...

was created to protect egrets and other birds from extinction through plume hunting. The oldest government wildlife refuge of any kind in North America...

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was young. As a boy, he often served as guide to visiting fishermen and plume hunters, although he later denounced poaching after legislation was passed...

250 alligators and 172 otters. Water birds were a particular target of plume hunting. Bird feathers were used in women's hats in the late 19th and early...

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White Plume (ca. 1765—1838), also known as Nom-pa-wa-rah, Manshenscaw, and Monchousia, was a chief of the Kaw (Kansa, Kanza) Indigenous American tribe...

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of the bison, increasing devastation of wading bird populations by plume hunting in Florida, and severe reductions in the populations of other once abundant...

wear exotic feathers in hats, and the consequent encouragement of "plume hunting". To this end the Society had two simple rules: That Members shall discourage...

extinction. Vernay made many appeals to regional authorities to obtain hunting permits; in later museum-related expeditions headed by Vernay, these appeals...

bird-of-paradise plumes in their dress and rituals, and the plumes were popular in Europe in past centuries as adornment for ladies' millinery. Hunting for plumes and...

against the fashion industry in the hopes of putting an end to plume hunting. These plumes were often used in the clothing of the day. The millinery industry...

arthropods. One of the most heavily hunted birds of paradise in the plume hunting era, the Empress of Germany's bird of paradise was the first bird of...

Lodge in Ealing, and Horsa Dun Lodge and Jersey Lodge in Middlesex. Plume hunting Feathers and Facts. London: RSPB. 1911. p. 14. Sharpe, Montagu (1919)...

fashion, both due to the reduction of bird population and the cruelty of plume hunting. In February 1889 she founded the Society for the Protection of Birds...

establishment of ostrich farms. During the 19th and early 20th centuries, Plume hunting for feathers used in hats decimated bird populations, especially in...

Wolf hunting is the practice of hunting wolves. Wolves are mainly hunted for sport, for their skins, to protect livestock and, in some rare cases, to protect...

sanctuaries, and working for public policy changes like a prohibition on plume hunting, the 1918 Migratory Bird Treaty Act, and a ban on DDT. NYC Bird Alliance...

Fashion" in the March 1914 Pearson's Magazine argued to protect birds from plume hunting, their large-scale slaughter for hat feathers. Hesketh-Prichard was...

Victorian women campaigning against feathered hats?" In 1880s Britain, plume-hunting was a thriving trade: vast numbers of feathers and whole birds were...

Marias of South Bastar. Men put head-dresses with stringed 'cowries' and plumes of peacock feathers and make their way to the dancing ground. Women ornamented...

decline. He noticed that the whooping cranes were not returning after plume hunting in large numbers like other birds. He began studying the whooping crane...

area's unusual diversity of birds, as well as the detrimental impacts of plume hunting. Finley used photographs to personally lobby President Theodore Roosevelt...