10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2013

If you are a migratory bird in Europe and western Asia, this is your sweet spot. This grim scenario is a fact of life for millions of migrating songbirds, raptors, and other birds each year. Volunteers with the Committee Against Bird Slaughter sneak into a grove where a farmer has just placed lime sticks to snag unwary birds.

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Cambodia Slaughter Slaughtered Cyprus 142

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

It’s also endangered, with populations in India and Cambodia numbering barely around the 1,000 mark. To counter the common image of the birds as unclean pests, the volunteers point out their ecological role in clearing away animal carcasses. They also note the bird’s sacred role in Hindu mythology.

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Cambodia India 2016 Groups 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 10, 2019

The 125 Best Bird Watching Sites in Southeast Asia, edited by Yong Ding Li & Low Bing Wen. And now I am holding the “The 125 Best Bird Watching Sites in Southeast Asia” – an expanded and fully updated second edition of “The 100 Best Birdwatching Sites in Southeast Asia”. That is about it – I do not know much more about this region.

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Asia Laos Myanmar Indonesia 219

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2014

I dreamed of birding the Sundarbans delta – roughly the size of Connecticut or Cyprus – ever since my very dear friends Tim and Hanna Balke told me a story of their visit to these swamps where the Ganges, Brahmaputra, and Mehgna rivers converge in the Bengal basin. Irrawaddi Dolphin photographed in Cambodia (Dan Koehl/Wikimedia Commons). *

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Bangladesh Dolphins Cambodia Cooking 181