10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2015

For both forms, their little patches within the WP are but outlying exclaves of a much wider range elsewhere in Africa and Asia, respectively. This may not sound like much, but it is really good compared to just a few decades ago, when hunting had significantly reduced its range and overall population.

Spain 157

Spain Hunters Africa Hunting 157

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

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. ” The Common Green Magpie fortunately does not look common at all.

Birds 147

Birds Myanmar China Chicago 147

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. However it is now one of the world’s rarest animals after decades of relentless hunting and poaching. In Asia they are even commonly kept as pets!

Buffalo 204

Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 204

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Hunting: You may have noticed that the Written Species Accounts include a section on hunting. I am a city girl and until I became a birder my contact with hunting was limited to occasionally seeing dead deer on the tops of cars in upstate New York. So–not a fan of hunting. I was really taken aback when I saw this.

Ducks 119

Ducks North America Geese Hunters 119

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

This is partly due to hunting in China, where about 90% of the species winter (HBW). But then, I am not a hunter, and do not understand them either). And it does not even live in reeds. Sadly, the numbers of Falcated Duck are similarly declining – it is thus listed as Near Threatened.

Raccoons 216

Raccoons Birds Oregon China 216

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2012

They are also believed to be related to the Rail-Babbler of Tropical Asia. Suspecting they still occurred, we went to considerable effort searching unsuccessfully for picathartes, our suspicions all but confirmed when several hunters I interviewed said they knew the bird and claimed they still existed.

Sierra Leone 268

Sierra Leone Ghana Cameroon Equatorial Guinea 268

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

That was a wild cat, a wild Wildcat, the cat that lives in the wild because that is where it is from and where it belongs, at the southern end of its pan-African range that extended at one time well into Europe and Asia. Read what you want about the origin of domestic cats; the genetic evidence is not properly sampled.

Feral Cats 255

Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 255