10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2018

The Lesser White-fronted Goose is one of the most threatened waterfowl species of the Western Palearctic, with illegal killing being the most important threat globally. The water level was very low, exposing the large mudbar dotted with waterfowl in the distance. Stopping here and there to scope the mudbar….

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Greece 2017 Pelicans Geese 176

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2021

Sometime back in 2018, I started sharing some of my photos by e-mail with my sister and aunt. I can’t really blame the farmers, even though much of the expansion of avocado orchards is the product of illegal slash-and-burn practices (as in the photo below, which I took just last week). It’s all about the avocados.

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Costa Rica Birds Mexico illegal 149

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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. for decorating the headgear and house interiors by the local tribals, at least in parts of India ( source ).

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Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 124

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

The same weakness is found in The Feather Thief (2018), a book similarly about an obsessive thief with flexible boundaries of right and wrong. Waller, who gave one interview to Hammer, adamantly denies any illegal connection to Lendrum, despite allegations made by Mullins.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 200

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

But every photo is clearly here for a reason, whether to show juvenile plumage or large egg clutches or illegal trapping (many of the images in the Challenges and Conservation chapter are from CABS, the Committee Against Bird Slaughter).

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Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand 2014 224

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

Viking, April 2018. To the end of the book, though, I would get confused between ‘tier’ for a person who ties flies and ‘tier’ for a layer or level of a structure. The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century. by Kirk Wallace Johnson.

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Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 102

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

Naziridis, whose authority doesn’t only come from his position, but also from a fact that he was born and bred in one of the villages around the lake – so he is not seen as a ‘foreigner’, but as one of the locals – answered: “It is not the pelicans, but your illegal fishing doing the damage.”

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Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 189