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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

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Birds included common species such as Black Drongos , Jungle Babblers and a Hoopoe. These days, the species shares habitats with Tigers, Snow Leopard, Bears, etc. According to IUCN , because of illegal hunting and habitat degradation across most of Indochina, ungulates occur at levels well below natural.

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U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Proposes 2015 Expansion of Hunting and Fishing Opportunities on National Wildlife Refuges

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The Refuge is now home to nearly 200 species of birds, over 50 species of mammals, 25 species of reptiles and amphibians, and a wide variety of insects, fish and plants. The Louisiana black bear’s threatened status warrants protection under sections 7 and 9 of the Endangered Species Act.

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Birding Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo

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When not climbing, he collected species, and thus a number of birds are named after him. So, like a football stadium named after an insurance company, the broadbill ended up bearing a name celebrating a sponsor. Interestingly, the first description of a nest of Whitehead’s Spiderhunter was only published in 2015.

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