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Which species?

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Was hiking through the southern Japanes Alps today (near Fuji) and ran into these tracks and droppings a few times. The paw prints scream bear to me, but the droppings seemed to small (they were maybe 50cm away from each other). I was curious to which animal they belonged.

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How to find the Ural Owl in Serbia

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The Ural Owl inhabits old and undisturbed boreal forests, in an unbroken belt from Sweden and Finland across Russia to Japan, and is rarely seen to the south, only here and there, in the Carpathians (Slovakia/Ukraine/Romania/eastern Serbia) and Dinaric Alps (Croatia/Bosnia/western Serbia).

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Marine Life Top of CITES Meeting Agenda

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Apart from issues like combating elephant poaching for ivory in Africa and banning trade in polar bear skins, those focusing on sharks and tuna are likely to be among the most contentious. Australia and Japan are among the countries refusing to back a total ban. Tags: australia CITES marine life marine animals Japan.

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Psychiatrist Arrested for Trafficking in Gall Bladders

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From the Seattle P-I: A Japanese psychiatrist with a home in Seattle is facing poaching and gun-possession charges following allegations that he poached several black bears and tried to smuggle gallbladders back to Japan. Tags: wildlife trafficking gall bladders bears.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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.” And after separating all the parts of the boluses and presumably weighing them, your conclusion would have been that “the most regularly occurring food items recorded are fish (63%) and insects (33%)” (the other 4% are the few remaining bits of chocolate and gummy bears brought to the chicks by their grandparents.

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I Remember Elephants

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Late last month, while searching for bears , woodpeckers and spirits of Greece, I deliberately avoided checking any news, especially from my home country. A laughing matter (Japan was first to laugh at it, saying it doesn’t give a …, well, not in those exact words). But I do not feel amused by it.

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Missing Mojo

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However my ‘twitch’ pales in comparison with the big twitch undergone by a couple of Brit birders in recent days who headed out to Japan on a 5814 mile twitch (and that was just to get there!) for a drake Baer’s Pochard.

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