10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2022

. “I am not bad-looking, I am just badly photographed”: A Bay Woodpecker (Fraser’s Hill, Malaysia) using a joke from “Roger Rabbit” The pinkish eyerings of the Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker (Tansa, India) make it look as if it is constantly suffering from a hangover.

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Woodpeckers South Africa China Singapore 231

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

The Blue Whistling Thrush is presumably named for its loud human-like whistling, and possibly for being blue. The Latin name “ chinensis ” is somewhat misleading as is much more common in Southeast Asia than in China – apparently, it was chosen in the mistaken belief that the type specimen had come from China.

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Birds Myanmar China Chicago 147

Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Humane Society International (HSI) called on Wednesday for a ban on the fur trade to Australia. Besides raccoon dogs, other types of domestic dogs are also suffering because of the high demand for their fur. Excerpted from the International Business Times. However, the fur is passed off as sheep skin.

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Fur Australia Groups Raccoons 100

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

I do not get too many comments on my blog posts, but it seems that whenever I write about jacanas – whether in Africa, Australia, or Asia – there is an unusually high number of reactions (well, maybe one or two rather than the usual zero) from female readers. This is ok as birds do not have teeth anyway). How efficient.

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Birds South Korea Japan Abandon 162

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2014

People who follow conservation may recall this range overlaps nicely with an area that has suffered a distressing amount of deforestation and general habitat loss in the last few years, and unfortunately this has had a dramatic effect on the species. A lot of Asia’s storks are threatened by human activities.

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2013 Birds Rhinoceros Thailand 174

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The Red-flanked Bluetail is also the subject of an otherwise relatively unremarkable paper , but it uses the interesting term “autumn obesity” Maybe this Marsh Sandpiper also suffers from autumn obesity? Thank god that this does not apply to humans. Sometimes being a member of the human race feels very embarrassing.

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Birds China Eggs Owls 197

Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

According to this Associated Press story, if you are wearing a Sean John jacket with fur trim purchased from Macy's, that trim might have come from a dog indigenous to Asia known as a "raccoon dog." One immediate consequence of the prima facie wrongness of causing animals to suffer is that it is ultima facie wrong (i.e.,

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Fur Fur Industry HSUS Raccoons 40