10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 21, 2022
The 2000 MacKinnon guide is showing its age while my preferred choice for the Shanghai area, Mark Brazil’s “Birds of East Asia”, covers non-Chinese locations such as Japan and Korea while excluding Western China. While there are some decent Chinese-language guides, they are of limited use for (local) illiterates like me.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 11, 2011
Illegal capture for the wild animal trade is an obvious peril for such a charismatic species, but this big blue bird is also hunted both for its meat and feathers. As much as 21% of Brazil is covered by the little-known but precious savanna, yet the Cerrado is disappearing faster than the Amazon rainforest (and you know that’s fast!)
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2024
My good friend Hilton and I wanted to go out to Mogri das Cruzes in Brazil to try and see the São Paulo Marsh Antwren. His collection was impressive and overwhelmingly illegal so he will remain unnamed too. We glimpsed a lot of presumably good birds flying away from us. It is possible to clutch victory from the jaws of defeat.
Critter News
MARCH 13, 2009
Police said it was the biggest single operation in the past decade against rampant illegal wildlife traffic in the South American country. Brazil is one of the world's hotspots for animal smuggling because of its rich diversity of animals. Tags: wildlife crime smuggling brazil trafficking latin america.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 7, 2020
September 2017, Cerrado, Brazil. The Falcon Thief is the sometimes exciting, sometimes horrifying story of Jeffrey Lendrum, an African-born adventurer who has been arrested multiple times for raptor egg and chick poaching and smuggling in southern Africa, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Brazil.
10,000 Birds
JULY 3, 2018
Credits: Red-ruffed Fruitcrow, Brazil, by Francesco Veronesi, used under Creative Commons license; Spangled Cotinga by Mathias Appel, Flickr, public domain. There are other questions though, and Johnson patiently teases them out. The Feather Thief is divided into four parts.
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