10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2024
While it is laudable to publish a paper about the threat to laughingthrushes (including this) by the bird trade, I still feel that lame-joke titles such as “Nothing to laugh about – the ongoing illegal trade in laughingthrushes ( Garrulax species) in the bird markets of Java, Indonesia” should be avoided.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 4, 2015
During this year’s competition, each team raised money for – and awareness of – the illegal trapping of migratory birds in Cyprus , a fitting cause for a race that celebrates the miracle of migration. Since 1974 it has been illegal to harvest birds there with mist-nets and limesticks. 168 Winning total.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2023
In fact, given the right chromosomes, hybridization is possible between the two species and has been observed ( source ). Other threats arise from illegal logging, hunting for bushmeat, and other body parts (feathers, beak, etc.) Of course, their own mother is not the only threat to Wreathed Hornbill individuals.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 8, 2022
In contrast, the females need to make sure not to get duped into raising actual cuckoos – the buntings are a targeted host species ( source ). Unfortunately, Hen Harriers die disproportionally near British Grouse moors – most likely killed illegally by people hunting grouse for sports ( source ).
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2015
Somewhere below that mysterious eagle, at the far shore of the lake, lies one Bengal Tiger … and further to the right – two more! The closer one raises her head, than lies back. Telia yawns, raises and sprays her urine on a dead tree stump, marking her territory. He has earned his tip. These are my first wild tigers ever!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2013
The survival of songbirds depends in part upon eliminating illegal hunting. There aren’t many solutions proferred—the article is really about consciousness-raising—but it’s well worth a read. Photo by David Guttenfelder, courtesy of National Geographic ).
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 12, 2016
We have no real way of knowing, but we surmise that he was raised illegally by a member of the public, and “imprinted.”. We definitely found the right bird for the job! in order to find enough food to survive, and our vulture friend was spending all of his time untying shoelaces. He was slowly starving himself to death.
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