Critter News
NOVEMBER 28, 2010
From TRAFFIC, Customs officers from Russia and China met last week to strengthen international co-operation in tackling cross-border smuggling of Tigers and other wildlife products. Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife trafficking tigers china russia.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
A few do breed in Europe, on the extreme north-east of European Russia. These were dark-bellied birds from Russia. Today many thousands spend much of their year there, arriving in September and not departing for their breeding grounds in arctic Russia until late May. Norfolk’s Pinkfooted geese are another success story.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 11, 2024
According to eBird, “it breeds on rocky cliffs on islands in the Bering Sea, from Alaska to Russia; winters on open ocean”. In contrast, eBird notes that the Black-legged Kittiwake “breeds at high latitudes across the Northern Hemisphere, primarily in large colonies on cliffs and other structures overhanging water”.
Critter News
APRIL 20, 2012
From the Wildlife Extra News. Apparently it isn't the first time the King has been shooting big game in Africa, or elsewhere (Apparently he killed a bear in Russia a few years ago too). April 2012.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 9, 2018
Alaska Day commemorates Alaska’s formal transfer from Russia to the United States in 1867. By designating more than 97 million acres for new parks and refuges, we are doubling the size of our National Park and Wildlife Refuge System. Alaska Maritime National Wildlife Refuge. Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. Wrangell-St.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 14, 2021
For example, my list of the Top 25 National Wildlife Refuges for birding includes an excellent location in Minnesota ( Minnesota Valley NWR ). The map would look a lot more complete if someone added a checklist from Russia.). However, at 691 species already observed, new species will be relatively rare going forward.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
Primorye is officially part of Russia’s Far Eastern Federal District. The fish owl is an endangered species, and before Slaght’s work, very little was known about it, especially in Russia. (It Most of the area is forested mountains, cut into sections by rivers and large brooks. So, Blakiston’s Fish Owl it was.
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