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

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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Birds Australia Asia Species 111

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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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Austria Birds Woodpeckers Factory 119

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 27, 2022

When you think of the best birding in the south of Asia, it is Malaysia that comes to mind, although you are likely not to even think of the country as such: you are dreaming of the (Malaysian) province of Sabah, in the north of the island of Borneo. And yet, it easily fits the largest pocket of my reporter’s vest.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

850 illustrations by Tomasz Cofta are both accurate and stunning, and 2,400 photos by Michal Jakuj and 189 other photographers from Europe and Asia are good documentary shots. For easier comparison, confusingly similar pairs are shown on the same page, side by side. in, 156 x 235 mm Weight: 2.88

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Birds Species Europe Asia 105

10,000 Birds

JULY 24, 2014

Miami, Florida has a reputation among the birding community for being overrun with exotic bird species. It is well-deserved.

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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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JANUARY 20, 2022

While the Black-throated Laughingthrush is native to Southeast Asia, it is also kept at the Toronto Zoo and has its own web page there. However, as the zoo is (at the time of writing this post) closed due to covid, you still have to leave Canada and come to Southeast Asia to see it. Which (due to covid) you probably cannot.

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APRIL 20, 2023

He has led more than 100 tours for the British bird tour company Avian Adventures, in Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia. He is an associate of the Royal Photographic Society and his photographs are regularly published in journals and books all over the world.

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JANUARY 2, 2020

Being a European birder, I find it particularly interesting to discover which of “my birds” extend their ranges through Asia all the way into this Pacific island country, and it is especially fascinating to see the diversity of stilts, woodcocks and snipes as one goes further east. What I don’t like?

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Japan Birds Species Owls 98

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

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.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Note the Asia connection again. Tags: seattle State of Washington gall bladders poaching bears asia. This happened in my own State of Washington. We allow hunters to shoot bears, but not to sell their parts.

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Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2010

Thank Animals Asia for the rescue. Tags: taiwan Traditional Chinese Medicine bear bile china asia. Again, the China connection. I can't read such stuff without being sickened by my species. They are an amazing organization that we support financially.).

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2022

If you are plugged into the birding community, you’ve probably seen photos of this errant eagle, normally found in Russia and Asia but now be-bopping around the United States and Canada. It’s a giant, striking raptor, with a bright bill and distinct white wing stripes.

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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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Critter News

JULY 7, 2009

Trafficking in ivory and game meat has become one of the most lucrative illegal trades in Africa due to rising demand in Asia, experts said on Friday. "In Tags: wildlife crime ivory africa trafficking asia elephants.

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Critter News

APRIL 5, 2012

There is only one greyhound racing course in Asia and that is in Macau which now belongs to China. American organization Grey2K visited it and expressed concerns about treatment of the greyhounds both during their racing careers and once they are over.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

An article has been published recently describing the current breeding distributions and predicted range shifts due to climate change in the two subspecies of Black-tailed Godwit in Asia. All of the migratory shorebirds make incredible journeys around the world to breed.

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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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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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Sparrows Birds Species Italy 103

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Edward Brown (1810-1867) was a Victorian-age bird collector particularly active in East Asia, in whose honor this shrike species was named. It is a fact unknown to most birders that the name of the Brown Shrike originally was Brown’s Shrike.

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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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Birds Family Species Sparrows 108

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2021

A typical description of the family is that of “a tropical African and Asian songbird that typically has a melodious voice and drab plumage”, another is “small, dull-colored passerine birds of Asia and Africa”, yet another states that they are “often rather plain” Individual species get even harsher reviews.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2020

Trogons and quetzals are an ancient, colorful bird family that occurs in forests and other wooded habitats from the American tropics to Africa to Southeast Asia. Elegant Trogon by Homer Gardin.

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Critter News

AUGUST 25, 2008

State wildlife officials are investigating a possible poaching case in which someone removed the gallbladder of a black bear -- which can sell for thousands of dollars in Asia -- after the animal was struck and killed this week by a car in the Lake Tahoe area. Tags: bear poaching asia. Beware the disturbing photo.

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Bears Wildlife Trafficking Asia 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

A thousand of our soldiers would be enough to subdue all Asia from Lake Baykal to the Himalayas … Here the exploits of Cortez can still be repeated.” Europeans must use these to come and bear away in the name of civilization all these dregs of the human race.

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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.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

The 2000 MacKinnon guide is showing its age while my preferred choice for the Shanghai area, Mark Brazil’s “Birds of East Asia”, covers non-Chinese locations such as Japan and Korea while excluding Western China. While there are some decent Chinese-language guides, they are of limited use for (local) illiterates like me.

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Birds China Species Brazil 105

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2020

With improved stability and infrastructure, the Irrawaddy plains and Eastern Himalayas of Myanmar could offer some of the greatest bird species densities in the whole of Asia.

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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

APRIL 25, 2019

Not surprisingly, ten of these 19 countries are in the Americas, but what does surprise me, there are just 4 in Africa and just 1 in Asia (2 if you count Indonesia). With 400 endemics, Indonesia tops the list of the world’s most wanted lister’s destination, but the only destination in Asia proper is India.

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Costa Rica Birds Papua New Guinea America 85

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2022

Bird in southern Asia and there are mynas and magpie-robins. In being wonderfully obvious, such birds become avian ambassadors, special “signature” species with the potential to raise bird awareness, to reconnect crucial links between people and the nature that surrounds them, with the ecosystems they partake in.

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Costa Rica Birds Species San Jose 59

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2016

Asia: Indeed, some 150 meters away, four males of the Great Indian Bustard are semi-displaying – more than one per cent of the surviving population! Asia: We wait on the top of the hillock crossed by a barbed wire fence and topped by a scarecrow. 10000birds.com/rock-partridges-and-hollywood-mandolins.htm. The Sun is just rising.

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JANUARY 20, 2016

The Azure-winged Magpie is a pretty member of the crow family found in Eastern Asia, from Siberia and Japan down to Hong Kong. As well as the population found in East Asia, another smaller population also occurred in the Iberian Peninsula, in Spain and Portugal. I’m back! And what a bird I have for you today. Azure-winged Magpie.

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Birds Spain Species Portugal 58

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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DECEMBER 10, 2020

Yes, it beat the European Robin, at least here in Asia. According to Billboard, an industry paper, the Japanese Waxwing is the bird with the highest income from Christmas cards, and has been in this enviable position for the last 3 years.

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