4 The Love Of Animals

FEBRUARY 18, 2011

I recently got the chance to read the book, 100 Heartbeats: The Race to Save Earth’s Most Endangered Species , written by Jeff Corwin. In this book, Corwin shares what he has learned as he travels the world to see first hand the species that are endangered.

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Endangered Species Rhinos Massachusetts Science 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

The scientific species name of the Rusty-naped Pitta oatesi honors Eugene William Oates (1845-1911), an English civil servant in India and naturalist. He published a number of books on birds of India and Burma, making me wonder how hard all these overseas civil servants really worked in their day jobs.

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Burma India Birds Indonesia 189

Critter News

OCTOBER 19, 2009

Here's another book I'll need to add to my list. Tags: wildlife crime UK books endangered species.

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Wildlife Endangered Species Tagged Species 100

Critter News

MARCH 29, 2010

I forwarded an article about this to my book club members. Tags: CITES united nations marine animals Japan endangered species. Hopefully, regular citizens will read this and not just other activists. (I Knowing them, I bet they were hoping for fish and chips instead!).

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Endangered Species Japan Campaign Fish 100

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 27, 2009

We got a chance to review an amazing book recently! Animal Investigators: How the World’s First Wildlife Forensics Lab Is Solving Crimes and Saving Endangered Species is an interesting read about the world’s first wildlife forensics lab. The book looks at three criminal cases involving wildlife.

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Investigation Animal Endangered Species Trafficking 100

Animal Person

MARCH 29, 2010

This book has so many great quotes that I'm going to have to write a couple of posts about them. Whenever the media report that someone has killed "an endangered animal" or "an endangered species," they too confuse an individual with a species. Any animal threatened with a gun or arrow is endangered.

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Speciesism Endangered Species Vivisection Killing 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2012

And, many natural things are covered by this book. The authors outline the basic problems of New England’s ecosystem, with attention given to endangered species such as the New England Blazing-star (a late-summer wildflower whose habitat is disappearing) and the dangers of invasive species (beware of Garlic Mustard!).

Massachusetts 202

Massachusetts North America Rhode Island Ohio 202

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 28, 2012

Don’t even bring up using tapes on endangered species. I urge less experienced birders to use a bird book before taking their questions to the masses. No need to get defensive. It’s illegal, it disturbs birds, and if you do admit to doing this, you are only going to encourage others to make the same mistake.

Tucson 198

Tucson Endangered Species Virginia illegal 198

10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2013

This bird is known from only a dozen localities, with only a handful of individuals and a very fragmented habitat, hence the critically endangered status in the Red Book (one of 197 such species – also my fifth). Trips endangered species India owlets owls' What are the threats? Forest Owlet © Nitin Bhardwaj.

India 253

India Owls Tigers Endangered Species 253

10,000 Birds

MAY 11, 2012

Audubon painted this new creature and wrote up a brief description, which went into his posthumous book and so out into the world. Somewhere around the Platte River one of the Audubon boys received a black-footed hide from a fur trader. Meanwhile, the black-footed ferret was declared finally, unambiguously, officially extinct.

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Ferrets South Dakota Wyoming Captive Animal 180

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2012

Baer’s Pochard is an endangered species that has undergone a rapid acceleration in its decline over the last decade, with a total world population of less than 5000 individuals remaining. for a drake Baer’s Pochard. How far would you go for an Aythya?

Ireland 155

Ireland Iceland Japan Endangered Species 155

10,000 Birds

MARCH 13, 2012

Orange Ground Thrush is a secretive mistbelt forest species that occurs in mid-elevation forests of KwaZulu-Natal, where it was first discovered by Thomas Ayres. Published in 1899, this was the first book on the region’s birds and the illustration shows Woodward’s Barbet, a species discovered by the brothers in Ngoye Forest.

Mozambique 182

Mozambique South Africa Africa Collecting 182

10,000 Birds

MAY 30, 2019

“It was all in books,” he would later admit. Endangered Species List, giving it free reign to wander and populate North America in ever increasing numbers, including a nest on the ledge of the U.S. The concern possessed him. “I didn’t have any instruction from anybody. I knew no falconers.

Falcons 171

Falcons California Condor Alaska Texas 171

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2018

It will never occur this far south but thanks to the Endangered Species Act and recovery efforts, at least they an excellent chance of seeing Bald Eagles if they venture way north of Costa Rica. From conversations I have had with Tico birders, they would be likewise elated to lay eyes on the fish eagle of North America. Cedar Waxwing.

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Costa Rica Bald Eagle Eagles Birds 101

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

because, if the film rights to this book have not been snapped up yet, Hollywood is making a huge mistake) (c) Will I ever see a Blakiston’s Fish Owl? This book is the story of his search for his grail and what he does with it and why, a quest that took place from 2005 to 2010 in the Russian province of Primorye.

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Owls Russia Fish Research 131

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2019

This bird is known from only a dozen localities, with only a handful of individuals and a very fragmented habitat, hence the critically endangered status in the Red Book. What are the threats? We don’t really know – if we put aside already well documented habitat destruction.

India 168

India Owls Tigers Cows 168

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 17, 2014

” Compassionate conservation describes an emerging field of interest which Bekoff describes in his book Rewilding Our Hearts : “Compassionate conservation has become a popular new phrase and mind-set over the past few years, one that has increasingly informed global efforts to conserve species and restore ecosystems.

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Wildlife Coyotes Hunters Wolves 232

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 11, 2012

The whole effect made for one of those birds that are far more impressive in life that you ever expected from books and the TV. The chicks, which were about the size of chickens, had brown and fawn striped plumage reminding me of the colours of young wild boars. Check out those claws!

Sharks 215

Sharks Birds Australia Boars 215

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 24, 2022

It should cover all of the obvious topics, such as selecting binoculars, how to look at a bird, how to use a field guide, where to go birding, birding ethics, birding terminology, birding books, eBird, etc. Some of this content already exists, but it should be brought together in a single comprehensive publication.)

Advocacy 202

Advocacy Wildlife Portland Science 202

10,000 Birds

MARCH 26, 2014

I follow quite a few people on Twitter, a mix of friends, comic book professionals that I complain to about my favourite comic book characters, and bird and conservation people, who I either support or tweak depending on my mood. In a way, it isn’t surprising that stories can get buried.

Lions 150

Lions Giraffes Zoos Killing 150

10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2012

One of the first examples I ever encountered was in the books of Gerald Durrell, the famous conservationist who was an early pioneer of the roles of zoos in conservation. He often defended that role in his books from animal rights activists who opposed “imprisoning” animals in zoos even if it saved them from extinction.

Animal Rights 257

Animal Rights Rights New Zealand Animal 257

10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2011

What could motivate gunmen (I cannot call them hunters) in two states to deliberately kill North America’s tallest and most critically endangered bird? It may be as sick as deliberately targeting an endangered species for death. She illustrates her books and magazine articles with her own sketches and watercolor paintings.

2011 239

2011 Hunting Kentucky Hunters 239

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2014

David Diskin has authored or co-authored a slew of books, including Birding Hong Kong: A Site Guide , The Avifauna of Hong Kong , Hong Kong Nature Walks: The New Territories , and Hong Kong Nature Walks: Kowloon, Hong Kong and Outlying Islands. Many at Mai Po, which is one of the best places in the world to see this endangered species.

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2014 Eagles Asia Groups 207

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2011

It’s a great book, don’t get me wrong. But I’ve spent a lot of time working with kakariki, museum specimens, and the treatment of the genus in the book doesn’t match up with what I know. The illustrations are lovely and the cverage everything you’d expect from world experts.

New Zealand 145

New Zealand Fiji Parrots Tonga 145

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

This species was discovered in the 19th century, only to be lost through the entire 20th century and considered possibly extinct until it was rediscovered 113 years later by an American ornithologist Pamela Rasmussen. Forest Owlet by Dragan Simic. Nate’s best was also a rarity in India. What are the odds? Sociable Lapwing.

2013 167

2013 Birds Costa Rica India 167

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Blue-moustached Bee-eater is rainforest species occurring in just a few scattered sites in Ghana, it was previously considered a subspecies of Blue-headed Bee-eater. Back home I meticulously planned the perfect birding route based on our explorations, made the bookings and confirmed the first commercial birding tour to Ghana.

Ghana 188

Ghana Hunters Guinea Gambia 188

Critter News

MARCH 29, 2009

Hicks, a researcher at the University of Amsterdam (UvA), describes the plight of the apes and other forest creatures in a new e-book to be released this week. Tags: chimpanzees poaching congo endangered species.

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Congo Apes Endangered Species 2008 100