10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Sukau birding essentially means staying in a more-or-less comfortable lodge on the banks of the Kinatabagan river, and taking boat tours on more-or-less rickety boats on the river. So, just photos of the birds themselves. Why that makes Mr. Graydon worthy of having a bird species named after him is a mystery to me.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

The main attraction for birders here are the hornbills – I have written about them before , so this post will be more on the other birds I saw there in 2017. Anyway, it is a very cute-looking bird if you are big enough not to be among its prey of (mostly) insects. I have written about the hornbills of this area before.

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Reddit Animals

APRIL 11, 2023

FWC officers arrived at a reptile facility and forcefully killed 29 reticulated pythons, 5 Burmese pythons, and 1 pregnant Boa constrictor. The FWC then proceeded to kill the total 34 pythons using a bolt gun. After killing Coffee's pythons, the FWC then committed another criminal act.

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Pythons illegal Florida Killing 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 27, 2017

The three young men returned to their friends, bragged about their exploits, and showed them trophies: metal banding tags, which members of the Pacific Rim Conservation had carefully placed on the albatrosses’ legs in order to keep track of individual birds. The young men had severed the birds’ legs in order to remove the tags.

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Albatross Honolulu Hawaii Killing 214

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 9, 2018

Some animals are injured and killed by wildfires. Birds are able to fly away, but their nests and eggs can be destroyed. In the months after a fire, wildlife populations can suffer substantial losses due to habitat alteration and destruction. I was able to visualize six of the bird houses that survived.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 9, 2014

Think twice, and do some research. However: they are not wild birds, and have no idea how to survive outside captivity. They are highly trained homing pigeons, which is why it costs more to hire a company that will deliver this type of bird, and to make sure they are released correctly. Where do they go after they fly away?

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

Increased scrutiny of practices long considered the norm in wildlife management, including predator hunts, commercial trapping, the legal culling of non-game birds like American Crows, and some of the research protocols used to track and translocate wild animals. required to determine those catch limits.

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