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2010 Declared the Year of the Tiger.So What?

Critter News

The Kathmandu Global Tiger Workshop declared 2010 to be the Year of the Tiger. The intention is to focus on saving the tiger species which is being decimated. When China won't support a ban on tiger farms, nor will it work to curb the ridiculous demand for tiger products in its own country, what's the point?

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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl–A Book Review

10,000 Birds

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. The fish owl is an endangered species, and before Slaght’s work, very little was known about it, especially in Russia. (It So, Blakiston’s Fish Owl it was.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of March 2011)

10,000 Birds

For Corey, this was a weekend without a single standout species but with many birds that were pretty darn neat. Where Are You Birding This Second Weekend of January 2010? I suspect though that once we get past the Ides of March (beware!) we might have a shot at another spring. And isn’t that an inspiring thought?

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