10,000 Birds
JANUARY 18, 2018
With only a few more days left, 2017 was coming to a close. The Lesser White-fronted Goose is one of the most threatened waterfowl species of the Western Palearctic, with illegal killing being the most important threat globally. I needed 4 more birds to round it up to 400, and as I said, I had only a few more days left. The solution?
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2020
E-bird data up to November 2017 was used to update migrational pattern data and “for locating obscure but locally significant records that otherwise might never have seen the light of day” (p. It’s a very mixed chapter.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 26, 2024
An adult Red-breasted Goose in a wildfowl collection Red-breasts are indeed popular in wildfowl collections, but they are valuable birds that are rarely kept full-winged (it has been illegal for many years to keep them un-pinioned) so these days escapes are relatively rare.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
September 2017, Cerrado, Brazil. Author Joshua Hammer, who previously wrote about a different type of real-life-unexpected-caper in The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu , read about Lendrum in the Times of London in 2017, realized the possibilities, did the research. We are cautioned to keep the location of the eagle a secret.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 7, 2022
But every photo is clearly here for a reason, whether to show juvenile plumage or large egg clutches or illegal trapping (many of the images in the Challenges and Conservation chapter are from CABS, the Committee Against Bird Slaughter).
10,000 Birds
MAY 16, 2018
Now, there are still 10 million of them there but, due in part to a population dip after 1970, it is, in the reign of the second Elizabeth, illegal to kill them intentionally. The trouble is, the definition of “native habitat” is, for starlings and many other species, now quite elastic. What’s magic about 1970?
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 7, 2017
This information comes from the January 2017 issue of the HBW Alive Newsletter ; aside from a thank you in the Acknowledgements section, there is little information in the book itself on which of the 27 artists listed on the title page are responsible for which sections.
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