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.
10,000 Birds
JULY 15, 2017
Redgannet’s repeated attempts to eat stuff that was bigger than his own head brought exasperated warnings from his long-suffering mother. Asia, but have been introduced elsewhere. As an adult, he still finds fascination in watching birds swallow seemingly impossible mouthfuls. Now, the Great Crested Grebe and the perch.
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 12, 2016
The birds usually remote habitat makes it difficult to gain a full picture of range and population status, but it appears to have suffered a drastic decline in its former breeding areas as grassland is overtaken by agriculture. An article in Birding Asia from 2010 put forward that the bunting could be the next east Asia species to go extinct.
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 Crested Serpent Eagle is another species bound to suffer from a naming error in perpetuity.
Critter News
OCTOBER 6, 2011
Besides raccoon dogs, other types of domestic dogs are also suffering because of the high demand for their fur. Verna Simpson, director for Asia Pacific of HIS, estimated about 10 million domestic dogs in China are killed yearly for their fur. However, the fur is passed off as sheep skin.
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.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 27, 2014
Most of these splits are happening in the islands of South East Asia, but a few are happening in the islands of the Pacific. In spite of the bird extinctions that have plagued the islands of the Pacific, it doesn’t seem to have suffered that much; I saw it in gardens in both Fiji and Tonga.
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