10,000 Birds

JANUARY 12, 2024

Only in Africa is it really easy to see a big variety. Lion – much easier to see than an Aardvark In contrast to East Africa, encounters with mammals while out birding in Europe are relatively few. They will also kill any water birds they can capture, from Kingfishers to Mallard.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2015

The vultures didn’t kill it, but they’ll clean up the mess. The White-backed Vulture is the most common species of vulture in Africa, although these days they are, like most vultures, globally endangered. The cute dead little Wildebeest?

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Reddit Animals

MAY 21, 2023

Claim 1: A gorilla can definitely kill any animal below 400 lbs easily and still put up a good fight for those above that weight class The truth: Forest leopards in Africa are known to kill gorillas, and while rare, the current record is skewed heavily in favor of the leopard coming out the better in these encounters.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2016

When you talk about birding botanical gardens in South Africa, Kirstenbosch in Cape Town is perhaps what automatically comes to mind. But it would be a mistake to assume that they are the only botanical gardens in South Africa worth spending any time in. And then several more hours admiring the birds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2012

Before self-rule it was administered by South Africa and known as South-West Africa. After a brutal colonization that included genocidal campaigns against the Herero (80% killed) and Nama (50% killed) tribes, the Germans lost control when South Africa invaded soon after the declaration of the First World War.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

I’m sure you’ve all heard of Africa’s famous Big Five , but do you know there is also an equally fascinating Little Five ? Africa is famous for its large, charismatic mammals, and the Big Five epitomize the most sought-after of these fantastic beasts. This blog post will discuss both the Big and Little members of these quintuplets.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 12, 2015

I get that you’re really angry, I mean, he was a popular lion and yes, his cute widdle cubs will probably die to, but I can’t help feeling you’ve kind of missed the point a bit, and well, ending all hunting in Africa will not solve much and maybe make things worse and… No, no, I’m not a hunter. I’m sorry.

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Critter News

APRIL 20, 2012

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). King Juan Carlos of Spain, Honorary President of WWF Spain, is recovering in hospital after breaking his hip in Botswana where he was on an elephant hunt.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 29, 2014

It’s six weeks to the day till I go to Africa, and of late conversations about the subject have taken a reliable and predictable detour. ” I’ll sometimes add “It’s in West Africa, I’ll be in South Africa. The disease had killed a tourist like ourselves.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Yet Birkhead credits British ornithologist Edmund Selous with sparking the world’s interest in watching rather than killing birds, despite the fact that Bailey’s “interest in bird-watching predates his,” as he admits in a footnote (p. The difference seems to be that Selous had previously killed birds and she had not.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 2, 2009

So far this year poachers in Kenya have killed 128 elephants for their ivory; last year 98 were killed. Some wildlife experts have attributed the increase in elephant poaching to the presence of Chinese workers in Africa. Tags: wildlife crime ivory africa Kenya china asia elephants traf.

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Critter News

APRIL 23, 2012

As Spaniards grapple with severe austerity measures and 24 percent unemployment, their king is dealing with a different kind of pain — extreme embarrassment over public outrage upon his return from an elephant hunt in Africa that cost nearly $60,000, or more than twice the average salary in Spain. And the Royal Palace's budget? And now this.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 22, 2022

So, it sometimes comes to South Africa to relax and enjoy relative anonymity. Others are being killed for use in traditional medicine. As the national bird of Namibia, Zambia, and Zimbabwe, the African Fish Eagle is usually very busy whenever it stays in these countries, giving speeches, opening shopping centers, etc.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

With this quote I have the pleasure of introducing my home province (state) for this month’s 10,000 Bird’s Africa Beat. mi (almost exactly the same size as Indiana), it is one of the smaller provinces of South Africa, but is the second most densely populated with over 10 million inhabitants. At 36,433 sq.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2015

And on their way south, they reach the killing fields of northern Serbia ( Newsweek on poaching in the Balkans ). But by then, all surviving Turtle Doves are already in Africa, and those less fortunate await in deep freezers for their final flight to Italy. Money and effort are being invested in that protection.

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Critter News

DECEMBER 29, 2008

Elephants in Zakouma National Park, the last stronghold for the savannah elephants of Central Africa's Sahel region, have crashed to just 1,000 animals from an estimated 3,000 in 2006. Several park guards have been shot and killed in recent years. Tags: ivory chad africa poaching elephants.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2015

I finally broke this nemesis cat in Mkuze in South Africa. Obviously we had interrupted a kill, but the Leopard didn’t reappear and we had to move on (to find the rest of Fala’s pack). It was, I don’t know, maybe twenty minutes after we left Fala dying in the bush ( as told last week , go read! I’ll wait).

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4 The Love Of Animals

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Filmmaker John Varty, who filmed a wild female leopard for 17 years, opens an extraordinary window into the lives of Africa’s most secretive big cat. Leopard Queen follows the life of “Manana,” a wild leopard whose territory spans the heart of the Londolozi Game Reserve in South Africa.

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Critter News

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Over 150 rangers have been killed on duty in this park in the past decade. Tags: virunga africa congo gorillas endangered species. Many worked for years without receiving a salary. And did you know. Rangers are able to identify individual gorillas because each animal's nose is uniquely patterned.

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Critter News

AUGUST 4, 2009

The dramatic film shows seals being killed by hunters during a hunt at the Cape Cross Reserve in Namibia and hunters armed with clubs running towards film maker Bart Smithers and Jim Wickens, from the UK's Ecostorm agency. Tags: animal cruelty africa seal hunters seals namibia hunting.

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Reddit Animals

DECEMBER 15, 2023

forest buffalo goes into first ​ hyena: The spotted hyena is a highly successful animal, being the most common large carnivore in Africa. This species is found on the African continent, in Angola, as well as central, eastern, and southern Africa. Ostrich kicks can kill a human or a potential predator like a lion.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2013

It breeds in a broad and not quite coherent band from Iceland in the west through central Europe and southern Scandinavia all the way to eastern Russia, wintering in Africa, parts of India, and Southeast Asia to Australia. Somehow – given our current weather – I can relate. .

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

The Cherokee nation called them “Peace Eagles” owing to the fact that they never killed a living thing – and also that they tended to show up in numbers after battled when peace treaties were being signed, though admittedly that may have been for a slightly more macabre reason. Here’s the kicker though.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 25, 2015

Early starts are the rule when monitoring endagered species in Mkuze Game Reserve, in South Africa, but there’s a particular urgency to this morning’s start. And the two species were not inclined to get on, by which I mean that Lions will kill other large predators including Painted Wolves. Her concern was well founded.

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Critter News

MARCH 2, 2009

Tags: wildlife crime ivory africa zambia trafficking elephants.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2013

A dusty-red road leads me through Marico bushveld deeper into the 750 square kilometers large wilderness of the Madikwe Game Reserve – the 4th largest reserve in South Africa, home to 350 bird and 66 mammal species, some 4 hours’ drive from Johannesburg. Trips Mammals South Africa'

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Animal Ethics

JUNE 7, 2016

Further, did those who reacted so strongly to Harambe’s killing go home and serve meat to their children? It is estimated that due to conflicts with humans, the bushmeat and body parts trade, disease and habitat destruction, large mammals in Africa may be extinct by the end of this century. Finally, what of the audience?

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 19, 2011

In many cases, myself included, the desire manifests itself in less apparent ways than going out and killing something for the trophy wall. I don’t need to kill something to feel the rush of the hunt. The stuff we get in South Africa or the UK. Although for some, it is buried deeper than others. But I digress.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 24, 2011

Here is a sneak peek: Mark Thompson, the former host of Guinness World Records Primetime and Fox’s Emmy Awards red-carpet coverage, will co-host Shark Attack Experiment LIVE with Anna Gilligan, former Fox News Channel personality, from Rocky Bay, South Africa, commonly referred to as “Shark Park.” Time of day. Panic and fear.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 28, 2008

He says: "We've not had reports of any gorilla killings. Tags: virunga africa congo gorillas. Over the next month he and his staff will conduct a census of the mountain gorillas, hoping to find the population of roughly 200 unaffected by the tempest that has raged around them in the past 18 months.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

We’ll see ambitious programs to save diverse species from the outback of Australia, the savannahs of East Africa, the Brazilian Amazon and some of the most successful zoo breeding programs in the world. Each animal they raise to adulthood is a step away from extinction, with the ultimate challenge to return them to the wild.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 15, 2012

He interpreted the bones, also at Klasies but other sites in South Africa as well, to indicate that human ancestors hunted only Eland until they became fully modern very recently, then they started hunting the much more dangerous and harder to hunt Buffalo. Eland are pretty darn hard to hunt. Perhaps we can discuss that some other time.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 31, 2019

I birded Uganda, which was my first time on the continent of Africa. The second trip was in the rain and it killed my camera but fortunately not the memory card as the image above shows. This last year of the twenty-teens was a monumental birding year for me. I saw 863 species of birds, bringing my life list to 1,820.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

The six international teams were as follows: The Zululanders – South Africa. “I am covered in bug bites, my legs are killing me and I got sick and threw up from the altitude,” Ryan Terrill, 26, a member of the winning American team, the LSU Tigrisomas, commented. The E-Birders – Cornell, USA.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

White-faced Ibis Killed by One-eyed Peregrine – Alex Lamoreaux, The Nemesis Bird. The Sacred Ibis in Africa – Susan W, The Nature of Framingham. Juvenile White Ibis in New Jersey – Corey Finger, 10,000 Birds. White-faced Ibis , Plegadis chihi. White-faced Ibis in Flight – Mia McPherson, On the Wing Photography.

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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. How do you find lions in Africa? The water level was very low, exposing the large mudbar dotted with waterfowl in the distance. Lesser White-fronted Geese, of course.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 20, 2011

Then, as often happens, a PhD student (one of mine) by the name of Rusty Low came along and proved that the Holocene was full of all sorts of rapid climate change thus killing my beautiful hypothesis with a bunch of ugly facts. because the Holocene had little rapid climate change.

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