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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 22, 2020
Beside India, Lynx Illustrated Checklist of the Mammals of South Asia covers Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Mammals of South Asia follows the latest taxonomy, describes all the species recorded within the region and provides a range map for each species. monkeys, deer, gazelles, etc.). cm Weight 0.4
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AVMA News
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
The American Animal Hospital Association has begun to accredit veterinary practices internationally. Daktari Animal Hospital in Tokyo became the first internationally AAHA-accredited animal hospital followed by five institutions in Japan that were accredited this summer.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 10, 2019
The 125 Best Bird Watching Sites in Southeast Asia, edited by Yong Ding Li & Low Bing Wen. And now I am holding the “The 125 Best Bird Watching Sites in Southeast Asia” – an expanded and fully updated second edition of “The 100 Best Birdwatching Sites in Southeast Asia”. As a rule, I like second editions better.
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Critter News
DECEMBER 1, 2008
I recently wrote my first check to Animals Asia. They are doing very important work on animal welfare in Asia. Our Mission "The mission of the Animals Asia Foundation is to improve the lives of all animals in Asia, end cruelty and restore respect for animals Asia-wide." Tags: bears bile farming asia.
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Critter News
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife trafficking asia pet trade.
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Critter News
MARCH 27, 2011
Please consider Animals Asia for your future donations. I love this organization and have supported them for a few years now. They do important work.
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10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 18, 2020
Dollarbirds left Broome earlier this year to return to Asia. They had arrived from Asia and were being chased away by Torresian Crows. It remains on the power line waiting for a mate to arrive from Asia. So much has happened in the world in their absence from Australia. It was a raucous sound of Channel-billed Cuckoos.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 5, 2013
Photo by JJ Harrison/Wikimedia Commons. Children are cute. So are Spoon-billed Sandpipers. And when you have adorable children coloring adorable pictures of Spoon-billed Sandpipers for an animated video about saving said Sandpipers, my friends, you have officially pushed the cute meter to the limit.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 1, 2024
Weaver Birds are commonly found in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia, thriving in savannas, grasslands, and open woodlands. Long-tailed T**s are widely distributed across Europe and Asia, inhabiting woodlands, gardens, and hedgerows. The Long-tailed Tit Nest ( Aegithalos caudatus ): Cozy Minimalism Photo: nottsexminer, CC BY-SA 2.0
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2014
Timaliidae is currently thought to contain 50-odd babbler species distributed across southern and eastern Asia. Birding Asia genetics taxonomy and systematics' The Spotted Wren-Babbler had been classified with a handful of other wren-babbler species in the genus Spelaeornis , in the babbler family Timaliidae.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
And, expectedly, the advice was: you should significantly lower your prices and move production to Asia. Now, that is an attitude I have to respect, just ask any former worker in car and other industries whose management went after the short-term profit and moved production to Asia, and you’ll know why.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2015
I’ll start off by naming the univerally accepted species, the House Sparrow propper Passer domesticus , the Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus and the ill-named Spanish Sparrow Passer hispaniolensis , which occurs from Spain all the way to central Asia and is rather difficult to find in the former.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2012
White-backed / Striated Munia Lonchura striata Munias or mannikins (but not manakins), are small, seed-eating finches from Africa, Asia and Australia. They are popular as caged birds and escapees have established a number of feral populations beyond their normal ranges.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 5, 2013
To all but the greediest rice and spirulina farmers of Southeast Asia, any member of the genus Lonchura is a joy to watch. The munias, or mannikins, or silverbills, as the genus’ members are called, are finches belonging to the Estrildidae , and the 40-odd species range from Africa throughout South and Southeast Asia to Australia.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2020
This means that every year, millions of birds fly by the city on their way between their breeding grounds in Northern Asia and their wintering spots in Southeast Asia and Australia. Shanghai is located on the coast of the East China Sea and lies right on the East Asian–Australasian Flyway.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 16, 2016
Due to habitat encroachment and environmental degradation in its traditional home base of Asia, the bird’s worldwide population has dropped to roughly 20,000 individuals, marking it as a Vulnerable species. The world’s biggest flying bird—the Sarus Crane , with a maximum of height of 6 feet/1.8 meters—has had a rough go of it.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2025
Red-crested Pochard (Netta rufina) is a striking diving duck species native to Europe and Asia. Red-crested Pochard, February 25, 2025, Mehsana, India Eurasian Teal, February 28, 2025, Kutch, India Greater Flamingo, March 01, 2025, Jamnagar, India Photos by Ming Li. I took the photo from a small boat in the river.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 28, 2015
You see, the Great (White) Heron/Egret is a polytypic species with four subspecies: alba in Europe, egretta in the Americas, melanorhynchos in Africa, and modesta in Asia and Oceania. But we’re far from done with the confusion. The data for splitting off modesta is pretty compelling, but the rest are still in limbo.
239 10,000 Birds
JUNE 4, 2013
I’ll also take any bird that has wren in the name, like Fairy Wrens of Australia and Wren Babblers of Asia. You’ve got till the end of the night to get me your wren posts and photos for the next I and the Bird! Send them to naswick AT gmail.com and put IATB in the subject line.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 10, 2024
I’d really like to see a Coral-billed Ground Cuckoo (South-East Asia), while to see any of the Madagascan couas would be pretty cool (there’s 11 of them). There are 154 species of cuckoos in the world, and they’re all a fascinating bunch. I reckon I’ve seen around 60 or them, which still leaves a lot to go.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 9, 2013
The Brown-headed Gull is a bird of Asia, breeding from Turkmenistan to Mongolia, and winters along the coasts of Asia. This gull is closely related to, and necessary to separate from, the Black-headed Gull , a bird familiar to any birder from Europe (or even just anyone from Europe!). Notice the white iris.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 29, 2013
Admittedly, This next I and the Bird doesn’t offer a ton for our friends in Europe and Asia and I apologize for that, but it’s hard to ignore those wonderful little Troglodytes. Wait, that sounds odd. In any case, the next I and the Bird is going to be all about Wrens.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 29, 2013
The series, which was four years in the making, follows birds across six continents, from eagles in North America to hummingbirds in South America, cockatoos in Australia, cranes in Asia, and flamingos in Africa. And many more!). The sixth episode of the series provides a behind-the-scenes look at how the filmmakers got the shots.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 18, 2012
Its natural range in Europe was restricted the the surroundings of the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, and in Asia it ranged from Asia Minor to central China. Mute Swans are large, white, and decorative, and as such their natural range has been significantly altered by humans who generally enjoy having them around.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2012
They breed in the arid inland areas in Mongolia and northern China and then migrate south into coastal parts of south-east Asia and northern Australia. Oriental Plovers stand very upright and look very brown compared to the usual grey of shorebirds and tend to be rather more vocal in flight.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 23, 2014
I don’t want my Best Bird of the Weekend to be Red-breasted Merganser while I’m in Asia. Unfortunately for me, that special species spotted in the bay separating Hong Kong from China was Red-breasted Merganser. I can spot that bird perfectly well at home! I can’t say the same for Gray Treepie , so let’s go with that.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 2, 2012
I get my own idea of the lunacy of Gooddie’s quest when I talk to a friend who has birded Asia and Africa. Beer looms large in Gooddie’s daily routine, and much text is devoted to finding beer in the middle of rural Asia and evaluating its quality. I’m reading a book about a man who is doing a Pitta Big Year,” I say. And leeches.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 30, 2020
Winter is not the greatest time for birding in Shanghai, and this year, there was no escaping to Southeast Asia due to Covid-19. In fact, if I were to leave China right now, they would not let me back into the country. So, the onset of spring here in Shanghai, particularly at my local spot at Nanhui, was even more highly expected than usual.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 21, 2014
It’s perhaps an easy one for many people to overlook, since they don’t occur in Europe or the Americas, but visit a patch of forerst or bush in Asia or Africa and there should be one or two species around.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 5, 2014
Other great birds here included a flock of Asian Rosy-Finches and a Siberian Rubythroat that should have been several thousand miles away in Southeast Asia. Trips Asia Hokkaido Japan' The sight of Steller’s Sea-Eagles banking against the snowy crags of the Shiretoko Peninsula is something I will not soon forget.
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 28, 2013
Common throughout India with a range that covers much of South-east Asia, it can often be seen around habitation where it catches small rodents, insects and invertebrates. Its Latin name, Athene Brama, obliquely acknowledges it’s importance in Hindu culture with a hat-tip to Brahma.
240 10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2013
Purple Herons Ardea purpurea are an old world element of the Ardeidae and range widely throughout sub-Saharan Africa, South and Southeast Asia, and parts of Europe and central Asia. Within Europe, they are mostly found in the South (around the Mediterranean), and the East.
196 10,000 Birds
JANUARY 20, 2013
Asia is home to all kinds of cuckoos, but none are as elaborately colorful as malkohas with those gaudy faces and painted bills. Con is a master at his craft and an uncanny resource on the birds of Singapore, Malaysia, and much of Asia. Malkohas are large Asian tropical cuckoos in the genus Phaenicophaeus. Bats under a rocky overhang.
234 10,000 Birds
JANUARY 1, 2012
The Rose-ringed Parakeet naturally occurs in two isolated areas: a thin strip across Africa just south of the Sahara, and south Asia where it is mostly found in India with smaller ranges in adjacent countries. We are therefore talking true evil here when we are talking about Germany’s Rose-ringed Parakeets.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 22, 2011
After all, Hooded Crows are a bird of eastern and northern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East and are not known as long distance migrants. It had to be an escaped bird or at least one that didn’t make it to the southernmost borough in New York City under its own power but by riding a boat.*
267 10,000 Birds
MAY 1, 2014
The White-crowned Shama is one such endemic, a split from the much more familiar White-rumped Shama that visitors to South East Asia may have encountered. I have encountered this sister species, insofar as I heard one once. Maybe twice. The White-crowned Sama was, for most of the start of my time in Borneo, similarly elusive.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 25, 2015
The distribution of Old World buntings (and the presence of longspurs and Snow Buntings in the Palearctic) is explained by colonization back across Beringia into Asia. An early pioneer, however, made it to South America early on and founded the tanager lineage, which has gone on to diversify into nearly 400 species.
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10,000 Birds
JULY 19, 2018
201-400 sp: Madagascar, north African countries; European countries; Asia Minor, Arabian Peninsula, Mongolia. Costa Rica has 900 and not 800 species, but I made no corrections, remaining faithful to the original map data. Shown as a list, it looks like this: Less than 200 bird species: Antarctica; oceanic islands. 801-1000 sp. –
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2022
There are Little Terns that breed across the north of Australia, Little Terns that breed on the coast of eastern and south-eastern Australia and another population that visit at this time of year from Asia. The population of Little Tern that visit from Asia breed in Asia and visit Australia in their non-breeding months.
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10,000 Birds
APRIL 5, 2021
Carolina bristlemallow (not from the carolinas), native hawksbeard (actually native to Asia). Scrambled eggs, drug fumitory, clasping venus’s looking glass, false garlic (than what is it exactly?), The same flower can have half a dozen common names.
222 10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 18, 2012
Posts from the Neotropics and Asia will be most appreciated, but we’ll take a wide variety of North American species as well. We love their attitudes. We love their colors. We love their intelligence. So let’s celebrate them a little bit. The next I and the Bird will be all about Jays !
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