10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2022

There are Little Terns that breed across the north of Australia, Little Terns that breed on the coast of eastern and south-eastern Australia and another population that visit at this time of year from Asia. The population of Little Tern that visit from Asia breed in Asia and visit Australia in their non-breeding months.

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Critter News

JANUARY 26, 2010

Thank Animals Asia for the rescue. Tags: taiwan Traditional Chinese Medicine bear bile china asia. Again, the China connection. I can't read such stuff without being sickened by my species. They are an amazing organization that we support financially.).

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2015

I had only just written about the observation of a Little Tern flagged in Taiwan last week when another flagged bird from overseas placed itself in our path! The Little Tern was also blue and white flags, but it was a white flag above a blue flag on the left tarsus and that indicates it has been flagged in Taiwan.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

The bird flu, in Asia, has been out of the news but that’s just because the news ignores anything that happens for more than three days in a row that is not an election. A throat swab sent to the Taiwan Centres For Disease Control helped scientists identify H6N1, a subtype of avian flu that has been spreading in chickens.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 9, 2014

Many of these migratory shorebirds will be heading into the Arctic to breed and some will make a stopover in Asia on their way to their breeding grounds. I also have a Grey-tailed Tattler that visits us and was marked with a plain white and an engraved blue flag “35″ in Taiwan in August 2012.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2015

This indicated that the Little Tern had been captured in Taiwan. Little Tern “M1” from Taiwan with Greater Sand Plovers. Little Tern “M1” from Taiwan with Greater Sand Plovers. Little Tern “M1” from Taiwan with Greater Sand Plovers.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 19, 2023

If you are thinking of studying ornithology because you – like me – enjoy the beauty of birds such as this Streak-breasted Scimitar-Babbler , take a look at the titles of three relatively recent papers on the species: Unravelling mitochondrial capture of the Streak ?

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