false 3 0 false false Tue Sep 23 10:04:20 -0700 2008 Mon Nov 10 05:52:32 -0800 2008 100 people have spotted 6,000.
12 people have 7,000

PETERSON: "The boom in birding seems to be an antidote for the pressures and artificialities of the modern world."

Birders : John Cahoon searching for Raven's eggs, lost control of ropes and tumbled to death, corpse hung over palisade for several day before retrieved. Others killed in crashes, Phoebe Snetsinger raped, David Hunt killed by tiger while chasing a Forest Eagle Owl.


April 1886 - passenger pigeons shooting was major pastime - winners of some shoots killed 30,000 birds ]]>