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Birding the Danzhou Bay area (Hainan, China) by day

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The Spring Festival – or Chinese New Year – is a big period for traveling in China. There are probably not too many words that will allow you to use two y in the same word, and – I looked this up – ever since a Scrabble rule change in 2010, names of locations are allowed.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 3)

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Wikipedia seems not too impressed with the species, stating that “the brown honeyeater is a medium-small, plain grey-brown honeyeater” The Latin species name indistincta (indistinct, obscure) sounds similarly underwhelming. The species was bred at the zoo of Memphis, Tennesee ( source ). ” ( source ).

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Sobering Tiger Statistics

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Reduced to Skin and Bones (PDF, 4 MB) shows that from January 2000 to April 2010, parts of between 1,069 and 1,220 Tigers were seized in 11 of the 13 tiger range countries—or an average of 104 to 119 animals per year. Tags: India wildlife trafficking poaching tigers china endangered species.

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The Danube Backwaters

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It is a fascinating world of swampy forests of willow and poplar, inhabited by Black Storks , White-tailed Eagles , Eastern Olivaceous and Icterine Warblers (above), among more than 200 other species. Locations, dates, species and numbers, right? Among the common species, Nagy mentions the Corn Crake.

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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

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The chapter titled “Chasing Angels,” for example, starts with naval officer Irven Buss using his naval ship’s radar to track birds off the coast of China in 1946. Schulman, 2010. As Heiman points out herself, there are many migratory species we still know very little about. Photo taken at the Sandy Hook, N.J.

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Jankowski’s Bunting

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An article in Birding Asia from 2010 put forward that the bunting could be the next east Asia species to go extinct. The Birdlife International factsheet makes depressing reading and suggests that the IUCN Red list entry for the Jankowski’s Bunting could be uplisted from endangered to critically endangered.

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Tadoba Andhari Tiger Reserve: the Tiger Afternoon

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During 1990s, the South China Tiger became extinct in the wild (some still survive in zoos) and the number of extinct races reached four. Conservation endangered species India Mammals tiger' At that time there were still some 40,000 tigers in the wild. Tiger’s historic range in about 1850 (pale yellow) and in 2006 (in green).

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