10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2015

The vultures didn’t kill it, but they’ll clean up the mess. Fortunately, after what happened in Asia conservation groups are alert to the risks and are working to protect them before things get dire. They are birds at their most composed, soaring effortlessly on thermals across the sky, and birds at their most feral.

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Africa Feral Ethiopia Tanzania 174

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.

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Bears Asia Trafficking illegal 100

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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Germany Russia Iceland India 173

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2022

The shame would kill them. ” As well as in Southeast Asia, there are also Spotted Laughingthrushes (photos taken at Longcanggou and Wolongshan, Sichuan) at the San Diego Zoo. Better lose some lady friends than a mediocre joke).

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San Diego Malaysia China Zoos 200

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2011

The kitten Venus is an F4 Bengal meaning she’s four generations (F4) removed from the Asian Leopard Cat which is a small wild cat from Asia. According to US Fish and Wildlife domestic rural cats kill roughly 39 million birds annually. Lorraine started with one tiny kitten when she moved into her home.

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Cats Leopards Kittens Unwanted 233

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 27, 2013

Seed eaters looking for the next kill. I stood there at the edge of a green meadow, looked at the bird and thought to myself that Tennessee was not in Asia, and that a lush green meadow was not within what the Chukar’s normal ecological parameter’s range should be, and that this was indeed a sorry sight to see.

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Kazakhstan Tennessee North America Sparrows 173

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. White-backed Vultures, photo by Adam Riley.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 177

10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2015

Will H5N2 Kill Wild Birds? We have seen H5N2 become an important virus for domestic poultry, suddenly, starting in Asia, moving to Europe, then to North America with wild migratory birds as the likely vector. They also have made progress in developing H5N1 fowlpox vaccine. So, what about wild birds?

Mississippi 174

Mississippi Fowl Turkey Minnesota 174

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

They are part of the scarab beetle complex and over 300 species have been described, occurring not only in Africa but also Europe, Asia and the Americas. In Asia they are even commonly kept as pets! They are harmless to humans and their horns are used for wrestling other males for mating rights.

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Elephants Leopards 197

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

White-faced Ibis Killed by One-eyed Peregrine – Alex Lamoreaux, The Nemesis Bird. 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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Birds North America Charlotte New Jersey 206

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2013

Also known as the Flyeater, this tiny bird is the only representative of the Australasian warbler family found in mainland Asia, and very similar to my own Grey Warblers in New Zealand, even their songs. If you have some time to kill, or better yet a tour of Thailand planned, be sure to include it!

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Thailand New Zealand Family Bats 102

10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2013

Let’s take Singapore’s Changi International Airport as an example; it is a huge hub airport with large numbers of people passing through in transit to Australia, Indonesia and south-east Asia. Anyone with more than a couple of hours to kill could easily make a quick birding foray out from the airport.

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Singapore Woodpeckers Parrots Zebras 159

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

” The Wels Catfish, Silurus glanis , is the second largest fish in its range, which covers much of Europe and parts of West Asia. Usually, it’s “Bird eating fish” but here we have a case of a “Bird-eating fish.” It has also found its way to Japan where it is considered to be an invasive species.

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Fish Birds Whales Whaling 200

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

This was truly an incredible encounter we had been so, so fortunate to witness; a full Snow Leopard hunt from beginning to end including the take and kill. The red line follows the chase with the yellow dot indicating the first failed attack and the red dot being the final kill position.

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Snow Leopard Leopards Hunting Sheep 279

10,000 Birds

JULY 21, 2022

Europe has one species (Eurasian Spoonbill), the Americas have one (Roseate Spoonbill), Australia two (Royal and Yellow-billed Spoonbill), and Asia has two as well (Eurasian and Black-faced Spoonbill). Ostriches originated in Asia. Preliminary Study of Slaughter Value and Meat Characteristics of 18 Months Ostrich Reared in Hungary.

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Ostriches Parrots Birds Eggs 147

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. This is approximated by the size of the animal, but really, this has to be adjusted for depending on modality of killing.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 253

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2022

It seems that at Nanhui, somebody is trying to kill even more than 2 bird(s) (species) with one stone (to be more accurate, not a single stone but a massive amount of concrete). On the other hand, for every disturbed Nanhui, there are probably at least 10 coastal places in China that are completely undisturbed, so it all evens out.

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Cattle Portugal Buffalo Humane 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2014

Well, Copenhagen Zoo is back in the news; a few weeks after killing a giraffe and feeding it to some lions, it went and killed some of those same lions. If the whole thing passed you by then Mother Jones did a good piece on why zoos sometimes have to kill individuals for the good of the species.

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Lions Giraffes Zoos Killing 150

10,000 Birds

MARCH 4, 2011

It is also familiar at inland sites in winter, especially reservoirs and refuse tips, and breeds in the relatively-Northerly regions of Europe, Asia, and North America. Herring Gull The Herring hull is everybody’s idea of a seagull, being present throughout the year at coastal cliffs, beaches, harbors and towns.

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2011 Cyprus Deer Species 157

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

They are also threatened by cultural beliefs that lead to killing them because they’re seen as harbingers of death and bad luck. Ackerman skirts around a related problem, the trade in owls in markets in southeast Asia and Japan, an outgrowth of Harry Potter mania. They are also hunted.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 203

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Oriental Pied Hornbills are common enough and probably the most likely hornbill to be seen in many parts of SE Asia, but seeing them at such close quarters and seemingly so relaxed is unusual. Oriental Pied Hornbills by Redgannet. Though Clare K. no longer regularly blogs here on 10,000 Birds he shared his Best Bird of the Year anyway!

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2013 Birds Costa Rica India 167

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2023

Elliot’s Laughingthrush is named after Daniel Giraud Elliot (1835 – 1915), an American ornithologist who apparently did not really do anything related to laughingthrushes and/or Asia but was rich. Maybe that was enough. At least he did not have a book titled “The Art of the Deal” ghostwritten for him.

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Birds Mammals St. Louis Monkeys 147

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2024

Thomas Mitchell had a brutal history of killing Aboriginal people, and in 2023 Birdlife International and the Royal Australasian Ornithologist’s Union officially renamed the bird. I like to think that the change occurred after the book went to press, though I know the MM name is still commonly used.

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Australia Birds Europe Collecting 180

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 of the questions on the survey is: "Is it morally permissible to kill animals for fur coats?" Not according to my students.

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Fur Fur Industry HSUS Raccoons 40

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

A paper titled “Crested Goshawk Accipiter trivirgatus may adapt well to life in urban areas across its range in Asia” already made the same observation in 2018. Actually, as I just found out, this is not really new information. ” Indeed, the main health risk in these Chinese parks probably comes from badly played saxophones.

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Birds China Eggs Breeding 147