10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 11, 2012
They are not necessarily the biggest African animals, but represented those that were considered a real hunter’s worthy prey or “game” – the African Elephant, Cape Buffalo, Black Rhinoceros, Leopard and king of the jungle, the Lion (which of course doesn’t inhabit jungle but savanna!). In Asia they are even commonly kept as pets!
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 5, 2020
Hence, for the rest of the world, I lowered my threshold to 400 and that worked well in Africa, but I soon discovered that for Asia I need to go further down, to 300. In this first part, I’ll focus on continental Asia, its south and south-east (Oriental region). Indian Rhinoceros in Kaziranga, photo Anuwar Hazarika/Wikimedia Commons.
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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.
Critter News
OCTOBER 2, 2009
In July, Kenyan authorities intercepted 16 elephant tusks and two rhinoceros horns being illegally exported to Laos from Mozambique. Tags: wildlife crime ivory africa Kenya china asia elephants traf. So far this year poachers in Kenya have killed 128 elephants for their ivory; last year 98 were killed.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 20, 2014
I mean, how do you pick between a handful of broadbills, Rhinoceros Hornbills , two pittas, a falconet and the Whiskered Treeswift ? A lot of Asia’s storks are threatened by human activities. I was Borneo-bound. Borneo did turn up some great birds, as expected, but it still turned out to be quite hard to pick a winner.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 2, 2014
Kinabalu (at 13,455 feet the highest peak in southeast Asia), and human development that has resulted in freshwater rice fields, secondary forest, and oil palm plantations, this means that Borneo offers an incredibly high degree of biodiversity. Borneo, the authors say, is under-birded. I think we need to do something about that.
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). The Natal Spurfowl forages on rhinoceros and elephant dung (HBW) and does so without complaining. Ostriches originated in Asia.
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