10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2013

while herbivores are represented by Chital (above) and Sambar deer, Wild Boar, Nilgai antelope, etc. Wild Boar stands next to the road, watching us without nervousness or fear. We’re here for the birds!”. Lions aside, carnivores are represented by Leopard, Hyena, Jackal, etc., The largest reptile is the Indian Mugger Crocodile.

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Lions India Mammals Boars 248

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2021

It is a spacious floodplain between the River Danube and the levee, 2.1 mi at its widest point and some 9 km2 / 3.5

Serbia 279

Serbia Boars Deer Otters 279

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2020

In mid-December, I was birding along the Beljarica levee (Beh-LYAH-ritza), my local patch north of Belgrade, when something other than birds attracted my attention: three Wild Boars. Finding birds in Belgrade. I have written about finding birds in Belgrade several times and always choose some of my favourite sites to recommend.

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Serbia Sanctuary Bosnia Birds 317

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road. Nitin hopes to enlarge his collection of photos of Tigers. I am curious to see whatever awaits us in the Nagzira Tiger Reserve.

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Tigers Dogs India Snow Leopard 252

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2016

A shot or two coming from the opposite bank, but they do not sound like geese shooting – more like boar hunting. Also, Little and Great Crested Grebes , Pygmy and Great Cormorants , Eurasian Coots and Common Moorhens , Black-headed and Caspian Gulls … And a lot more birds further in the background.

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Geese Boars Hunting Serbia 189

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2012

The chicks, which were about the size of chickens, had brown and fawn striped plumage reminding me of the colours of young wild boars. The whole effect was capped off literally by a bony casque that looked ancient and weathered. Check out those claws!

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Sharks Birds Australia Boars 255

10,000 Birds

MAY 18, 2023

while herbivores are represented by Chital and Sambar (above) deer, Wild Boar , Nilgai antelope, etc. Wild Boar stands next to the road, watching us without nervousness or fear. We’re here for the birds!” Lions aside, carnivores are represented by Leopard , Striped Hyena , Jackal , etc.,

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India Boars Lions Mammals 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2021

Two Wild Boars crossed our path, returning from the arable field where they fed overnight, to the safety of Beljarica. Park at the beginning of the route (driving along the levee is prohibited and the barrier is often closed and locked), but at the side – be sure not to block heavy lorries full of poplar trunks.

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Farming Fish Birds Boars 264

Critter News

MARCH 22, 2010

Among them, stag and wild boar accounted for around 70 per cent of the consumed meat, followed by turtle, snake, fox and porcupine. In Viet Nam, hunting and trade in wild animals had been alarming, he said. A WCS study conducted at 200 restaurants in the central region found they consumed nearly 2 million wild animals per year.

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Vietnam Trafficking Meat Porcupines 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

Back on dirt tracks by a Desert Wheatear decorated bush (bellow), to spot five or six Wild boars disappearing among the bushes. They belong to the same species like those found back in Europe, Sus scrofa – which inhabits a belt stretching from northern Africa and Europe all the way to Indonesia, but a different subspecies, S.s.

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India Birds Boars Eagles 253

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 16, 2014

The only mammal species I have observed here were the Brown Hare and Least Weasel , but Golden Jackals and even Wild Boars are present, too. In northern plains of Serbia some 37 species of Odonata were recorded – 30 of them on and around this pond alone. Pancevo Road turn off. eBird list.

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Serbia Ducks Birds Eagles 254

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2015

There are 172 species of butterflies recorded within the national park, 24 species of bats, plus the Beech Marten (which I saw only as a road-kill), Otter , Wild Cat , Badger , Wild Boar , Grey Wolf and the European Brown Bear, among others. Maps and guides.

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Greece Pelicans Geese Albania 252

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

On her own, two months ago, she took down a big, old and experienced Indian Boar , who already had some old tiger claw scars. They are 20 months old, as big as their mother, but not as heavy. The fourth one is missing – she is the adventurer among them. These are my first wild tigers ever! The closer one raises her head, than lies back.

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Tigers India Killing 2006 258

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2019

There are also wild boars and macaque monkeys and you are advised to not rustle plastic bags, because they associate the noise with food. We returned down the same road and all other areas around the island were easily accessible.

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Singapore illegal Boars Birds 133

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2019

There were wild boars and monitors rustling through the leaves as well as the plantain squirrels that we had become so accustomed to. The walk trail at Lower Peirce Reservoir is only 900 metres long and it is a boardwalk. As we went along the trail it appeared to be fairly quiet and then we started to find a few birds.

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Singapore Unwanted Pets Woodpeckers Parrots 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2013

Examples are wolf, beaver, otter, domestic cat, wolverine, wild boar, elk (moose), and reindeer. Now, let us move beyond the cover and forget the little fright the title gave me: the book’s content. The claw marks on this brown bear’s footprint make you wish you had taken the other kind of canon with you.

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Europe Mammals Animal Reindeer 167

Animal Ethics

JUNE 27, 2008

To compensate for their lack of skill, hunters set their dogs upon a wild pig—a descendant of boars brought to America solely to give hunters the pleasure of killing a helpless animal. As the dogs tear chunks of flesh from the terrified pig, the hunters undoubtedly feel proud of their accomplishment.

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New York Times New York Boars Pigs 40

10,000 Birds

MARCH 31, 2019

Squirrels, water monitors, lizards, wild boar, macaque monkeys and more had too often stopped us in our tracks when we heard leaves rustling or odd sounds initially! We spent most of the morning walking around the reserve slowly. Suddenly across the dull and threatening sky we observed two large birds.

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Singapore Transported Boars Malaysia 115

Animal Ethics

OCTOBER 6, 2009

In 2004, Robert Stevens was convicted of violating this law and sentenced to 32 months in prison for selling videos featuring pit bulls chasing wild boars on organized hunts and depicting a pit bull attacking the lower jaw of a domestic farm pig, according to the Philadelphia-based appeals court. In July, a divided U.S.

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Pit Bulls Animal Cruelty Animal Cruelty 40

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

In mid-December, I was birding along the Beljarica levee (Beh-LYAH-ritza), my local patch north of Belgrade, when something other than birds attracted my attention: three wild boars , appearing all black because they had just swam through the swamp to reach the bottom of the levee. I think all were males, at last two huge ones certainly were.

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Serbia Otters Boars Hunters 246

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Recently, 29 fish species of fish were recorded in this area, together with 8 amphibians, 9 reptiles and 62 species of mammals (including 20 species of bats), together with Wild Boar , Roe Deer , Wildcat , Golden Jackal , Eurasian Otter , European Pine and Beech Martens , Steppe Polecat , Stoat and the Least Weasel.

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Serbia Eagles Protection Ducks 188

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Well, the snowmobile ride back to civilization at the end of phase one, zooming over slush as ice breaks behind them, is understandably exciting, as is the burning field outside their camp in the middle of the night, and the herd of stampeding boar that narrowly misses Slaght one evening.

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Owls Russia Fish Japan 163

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2017

Were the hydrologists of 1920s worried where the fish will spawn, Wild Boars fatten and eagles nest? Then, between 1929 and 1933, 89 kilometres of embankments were built all around it, cutting it off from the rhythms of seasonal flooding and opening it to agriculture and settlement. Yet, the Beljarica remained open to flooding.

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Eagles Campaign Otters Serbia 188

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2019

Then there are the Wild Boars, Plantain Squirrels, Monitor Lizards and of course the bird-life. Well, not quite alone because you often encounter the Long-tailed Macaques as in the header photo! You should not carry plastic bags that rustle, because the Long-tailed Macaques associate the sound with food. Also, don’t steal the birds!!

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Singapore Boars Transported Squirrels 133