Critter News

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Another book I want to read! Nevertheless the subject of eradicated species has become publishing hot property after a bidding battle in the US saw Henry Holt, a publisher, beat its rivals to buy The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert last week. I'm a glutton for depressing punishment!

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Humane Endangered Species New York Times New York 100

4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

I recently got the chance to read the book, 100 Heartbeats: The Race to Save Earth’s Most Endangered Species , written by Jeff Corwin. In this book, Corwin shares what he has learned as he travels the world to see first hand the species that are endangered.

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Endangered Species Rhinos Massachusetts Science 100

Critter News

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Here's another book I'll need to add to my list. Tags: wildlife crime UK books endangered species.

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Wildlife Endangered Species Tagged Species 100

Critter News

MARCH 29, 2010

I forwarded an article about this to my book club members. Tags: CITES united nations marine animals Japan endangered species. Hopefully, regular citizens will read this and not just other activists. (I Knowing them, I bet they were hoping for fish and chips instead!).

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Endangered Species Japan Campaign Fish 100

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 27, 2009

We got a chance to review an amazing book recently! Animal Investigators: How the World’s First Wildlife Forensics Lab Is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species is an interesting read about the world’s first wildlife forensics lab. The book looks at three criminal cases involving wildlife.

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Investigation Animal Endangered Species Trafficking 100

Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

This book has so many great quotes that I'm going to have to write a couple of posts about them. Whenever the media report that someone has killed "an endangered animal" or "an endangered species," they too confuse an individual with a species. Any animal threatened with a gun or arrow is endangered.

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Speciesism Endangered Species Vivisection Killing 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2012

And, many natural things are covered by this book. The following section on Habitats serves to provide the larger picture, frameworks in which to root the hundreds of individual species to follow. It is impressive how many living things the authors have included in 416 pages without making the book look cramped.

Massachusetts 207

Massachusetts North America Rhode Island Ohio 207

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2013

This species was discovered (shot, actually) in the 19 th century, only to be lost through the entire 20 th century. The Forest Owlet is an endemic species of this mountain range. Trips endangered species India owlets owls' Before the trip, Nitin Bhardwaj asked me: “What if we dip it?” “Not Let’s go.”.

India 256

India Owls Tigers Endangered Species 256

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2012

The species was extinct, a vanished part of the vanishing prairie — and not for the first time. Audubon painted this new creature and wrote up a brief description, which went into his posthumous book and so out into the world. You couldn’t see it. Second chances like this are the stuff of legend. But this is real life.

Ferrets 184

Ferrets South Dakota Wyoming Captive Animal 184

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2012

Don’t even bring up using tapes on endangered species. I urge less experienced birders to use a bird book before taking their questions to the masses. No need to get defensive. It’s illegal, it disturbs birds, and if you do admit to doing this, you are only going to encourage others to make the same mistake.

Tucson 203

Tucson Endangered Species Virginia illegal 203

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2019

This species was discovered (shot, actually) in the 19th century, only to be lost through the entire 20th century. The Forest Owlet is an endemic species of this mountain range. Since its rediscovery in 1997, this species has been found at a number of new locations, several of which appear to hold significant populations.

India 175

India Owls Tigers Cows 175

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

Even in the tropics there are few birds that excel some of our own in elegance and beauty of plumage and we have an unusually large number of species considering the smallness of the area they inhabit. ” (Woodward brothers, “Natal Birds”, 1899) The mighty Drakensberg Mountains run along the western boundary of KwaZulu-Natal province.

Mozambique 187

Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 187

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

Our bogey or nemesis species, birds that we would opt to see over others. Back in the early days of birding with optics, I wonder if such wanted species would have been birds that were much more common in present times. It’s a reminder of how cool that bird really does look, that species and its red, crested counterpart.

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Costa Rica Bald Eagle Eagles Birds 101

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Baer’s Pochard is an endangered species that has undergone a rapid acceleration in its decline over the last decade, with a total world population of less than 5000 individuals remaining. for a drake Baer’s Pochard. How far would you go for an Aythya?

Ireland 155

Ireland Iceland Endangered Species Japan 155

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

“It was all in books,” he would later admit. And they were the ones who, at the end of the conference, decided to get together and talk about the possibility of breeding Peregrines in captivity as a way of at least saving the species from extinction.” The concern possessed him. I knew no falconers. And grow they did.

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Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 179

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2012

Sharks cruise off the city’s beaches, and just yesterday a deadly species of snake was found in a suburban railway station. The whole effect made for one of those birds that are far more impressive in life that you ever expected from books and the TV. Lurking in the suburban lawns of Sydney are the deadly Funnelweb Spiders.

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Sharks Birds Australia Boars 222

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Developed in the post-frontier era, the NAMWC helped put a stop to wanton wildlife destruction in an era where many species were being hunted and trapped ruthlessly to the brink of extinction. Wilderness Act, Endangered Species Act, Clean Air and Water Acts, and similar acts in Canada.

Wildlife 239

Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 239

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

because, if the film rights to this book have not been snapped up yet, Hollywood is making a huge mistake) (c) Will I ever see a Blakiston’s Fish Owl? This book is the story of his search for his grail and what he does with it and why, a quest that took place from 2005 to 2010 in the Russian province of Primorye.

Owls 135

Owls Russia Fish Research 135

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2022

It should cover all of the obvious topics, such as selecting binoculars, how to look at a bird, how to use a field guide, where to go birding, birding ethics, birding terminology, birding books, eBird, etc. Some of this content already exists, but it should be brought together in a single comprehensive publication.)

Advocacy 211

Advocacy Wildlife Portland Science 211

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

Wildlife conservation is concerned with protecting wildlife at the level of species or perhaps population. With the exception of species that number in the hundreds, conservation biologists are not as concerned with the fates of individual animals, it is only when such fates of many individuals are added up do they begin to worry.

Animal Rights 262

Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 262

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2014

If the whole thing passed you by then Mother Jones did a good piece on why zoos sometimes have to kill individuals for the good of the species. The drug that turned the White-rumped Vulture from the “most abundant large bird of prey in the world” in 1985 to a species that is critically endangered.

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Lions Giraffes Zoos Killing 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death. She illustrates her books and magazine articles with her own sketches and watercolor paintings.

2011 242

2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 242

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2014

David Diskin has authored or co-authored a slew of books, including Birding Hong Kong: A Site Guide , The Avifauna of Hong Kong , Hong Kong Nature Walks: The New Territories , and Hong Kong Nature Walks: Kowloon, Hong Kong and Outlying Islands. SPECIES LIST. What is a day of birding without scanning malodorous mud, right?

2014 214

2014 Eagles Asia Groups 214

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2011

It’s a great book, don’t get me wrong. But I’ve spent a lot of time working with kakariki, museum specimens, and the treatment of the genus in the book doesn’t match up with what I know. He lists four extant species, along with the two extinct species. of the Yellow-crowned Parakeet.

New Zealand 146

New Zealand Fiji Parrots Tonga 146

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

My best bird of the year is based on the sighting rather than the species. Obviously my best bird of the year is going to come during this trip, what with several species of endemic pitta and broadbill possible, not to mention 8 species of hornbill and numerous babblers, storks, kingfishers, trogons and even the endemic Bornean Bristlehead.

2013 167

2013 Birds Costa Rica India 167

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Nineteen days later we had racked up an amazing list of 436 species, including some of Africa’s least known birds such as Congo Serpent Eagle , Yellow-footed Honeyguide , Tessmann’s Flycatcher , Yellow-bearded Greenbul , Black-collared Lovebird and much besides. We also knew we had discovered Africa’s next hot birding destination.

Ghana 192

Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 192

Critter News

MARCH 29, 2009

Hicks, a researcher at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), describes the plight of the apes and other forest creatures in a new e-book to be released this week. Tags: chimpanzees poaching congo endangered species.

Congo 100

Congo Endangered Species Apes 2008 100