10,000 Birds

JUNE 13, 2022

Readers with a pornographic mindset will enjoy the following information about the Dusky Moorhen: “Simultaneously promiscuous, forming breeding groups of 2–7 apparently unrelated birds; individuals sometimes switch groups between seasons. If you are thinking of having kids, let this photo be a warning to you. ” (HBW).

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Australia Birds Feral Cats Kangaroos 206

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2013

No matter how much we do to protect the breeding grounds of Neotropical migrants, we can’t assure the safety of those species that lose essential wintering habitat.

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Dominican Republic Haiti Pythons illegal 174

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

According to IUCN , because of illegal hunting and habitat degradation across most of Indochina, ungulates occur at levels well below natural. While the second reason is the expected habitat fragmentation and destruction in the most populous region of the World, the first, somewhat surprisingly, is the lack of prey animals.

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Tigers Dogs India Snow Leopard 244

Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2010

Both species are endangered and it is illegal to cross breed them. Cross-breeding two protected species is completely against nature. One died and the other two were seized for sheltering at a research institution. From Focus Taiwan.

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Taiwan China Lions Tigers 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2013

In short, the accepted view used to be that a small breeding population of Egyptian Vultures inhabited Southern Africa, but has vanished facing the spread of towns, roads and farms. In the 1970s we had two to four breeding pairs, in the 1980s one to two, in the 1990s it was zero to two (irregular breeding).

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Sudan Macedonia Botswana Serbia 234

10,000 Birds

JULY 7, 2022

Wikipedia also has some highly specific information on the appearance of the eggs of this bird over time, something that I would not necessarily have needed to know: “They become increasingly stained with feces, as does the nest, over the duration of the breeding season.”

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Birds Australia Parrots Memphis 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 29, 2011

Migrating warblers typically pass through Cyprus from March until May every Spring – a fact that is sadly taken advantage of by illegal poachers. Not counting very scarce vagrants, wintering birds, or breeding birds – just migrants that is – there are by my count at least 2 Acrocephalus sp., Too good to pass up!

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Cyprus illegal 2011 Breeding 154

Critter News

JULY 13, 2009

The trade in TCM {Traditional Chinese Medicine} products has also been growing at an annual rate of 10 percent, which has seriously impacted medicinal plant and animal populations, though more than half of plants and animals being used by TCM are from artificial propagation or captive breeding.

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China Wildlife Tigers Endangered Species 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The only wildcat I found was illegally killed by hunters during closed season. These handsome finches breed in the far north of Europe and come here for the winter only. Photographed within Beljarica: five White-tailed Eagles by Snezana Panjkovic. I barely started when some sulphur (a.k.a.

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Serbia Otters Boars Eagles 246

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

The authors’ detailed delineation of problems with the accuracy of NYC breeding bird surveys or with the limits of historical writings may test a reader’s patience. Because, as this book demonstrates so well, it is sometimes important to look back in order to move forward. It’s a very mixed chapter.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 155

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2015

We also try to re-nest uninjured baby birds so we don’t interfere with a bird’s breeding cycle. It is illegal to keep a wild bird. Wild bird rehabilitators want bird parents to feed their own babies. After all, “Mother knows best.” And yes, it is tempting to want to feed that helpless begging little bird, but resist!

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Wounded Rescue Medical Cats 256

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2013

The survival of songbirds depends in part upon eliminating illegal hunting. The population of Millerbirds on Laysan has doubled , and breeding seems to be going well. Photo by David Guttenfelder, courtesy of National Geographic ). If you are a migratory bird in Europe and western Asia, this is your sweet spot.

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Cambodia Slaughter Slaughtered Cyprus 144

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2014

In the breeding season, some 50 species were recorded here, including Little Bittern and Golden Oriole , both unusually easy to see, as well as Ferruginous Duck , Red-backed Shrike and Penduline T**s that bred here this spring – but all I managed to see was their nest ( again ) and not the inhabitants!

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Serbia Stray Dog Protection Botswana 244

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

It is obvious to me that the male Marsh Wrens at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge are getting ready for the females to visit their breeding territories. Back in the 2010 breeding season, I was able to observe a male building a nest at this exact same time of year.

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Sacramento North America Wildlife Defenders Of Wildlife 162

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

Marshes are the habitats with the greatest species richness in moderate zones, also significant as breeding, wintering and migratory stopover sites for birds; it therefore comes as no surprise that this one is among the 10,000 Important Bird Areas of the World (one per each bird species?).

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Greece Serbia Hunters Cows 197

Animal Person

AUGUST 1, 2009

While whites use illegal drugs at substantially higher percentages than blacks, black men are sent to prison on drug charges at 13 times the rate of white men. As of mid-2008, there were 4,777 black men imprisoned in America for every 100,000 black men in the population.

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Obama New York Times New York illegal 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

With the help of a captive breeding program, the Peregrine bounced back, and in 1999, they were removed from the Endangered Species List. Without adequate funding, habitats are not restored, invasive species are left unchecked, poaching and other illegal activities occur and our nation’s wildlife suffers 3.

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Falcons Wildlife Sacramento Endangered Species 137

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2024

Explaining the increase in the number of sightings is difficult, as the Siberian breeding population is declining. This current winter is no exception, and at the time of writing there are no fewer than five to be seen at four different locations. With luck I might well see the Cley bird again before it heads back to Siberia.

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Bulgaria Geese Romania Estonia 130

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2015

The State of Louisiana has increased fines for illegal killing of bears. Seney National Wildlife Refuge was established in 1935 as a refuge and breeding ground for migratory birds and other wildlife.” Swan Lake Refuge is managed as “a refuge and breeding ground for migratory birds and other wildlife”.

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Fish Wildlife Hunting Game 144

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2024

A study on the breeding biology of Whitehead’s Broadbill was just published in May 2023 but leaves a bit of a puzzle as the breeding success is described as relatively high, meaning there should be other reasons for the population decline of the species. Leave the bad jokes to me, please.

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Birds Indonesia Breeding Charlotte 234

Animal Ethics

MARCH 29, 2008

Earlier this month, NASA released new satellite photographs showing continued illegal cutting of the Mexican fir forests where virtually all of eastern North America’s monarch butterflies spend the winter. The loss of migration is of more than aesthetic importance.

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New York Times New York United States illegal 40

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2019

The Kerkini Lake National Park is my favourite birding area in the whole of the Balkans and while I’ve been here in April and again (migration), September (migration), October (coffee break), December and January (wintering), this was my first time in the breeding season, in May. But nowadays, they, too, breed here, about 20 pairs this year.

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Greece Pelicans Buffalo Fish 199

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A paper on the Chestnut-vented Nuthatch titled “Nest-Site Features and Breeding Ecology of Chestnut-Vented Nuthatch Sitta nagaensis in Southwestern China” has 8 authors. The Orange-bellied Leafbird tends not to be very amused when hearing a Bronzed Drongo imitating it.

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Birds China Woodpeckers Breeding 185

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2016

The decrease in numbers has been accompanied by fragmentation of the breeding range and is continuing to affect all populations. Disturbance on breeding grounds (e.g. Illegal spring hunting and round-ups of moulting birds are taking place on the Russian breeding grounds and illegal shooting continues in Norway.

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Serbia Greece Montenegro Bulgaria 203

10,000 Birds

JULY 10, 2012

Image by Adam Riley Of the 115 African species now listed as Endangered or Critically Endangered, nearly half occur on the islands surrounding Africa or are non-breeding migrants to Africa. In this blogpost I will discuss ten of the 60 endangered species that are resident on the African continent.

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Endangered Species Species Morocco South Africa 198

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 9, 2023

One paper describes them breeding in a human settlement in abandoned clay jars. Other threats arise from illegal logging, hunting for bushmeat, and other body parts (feathers, beak, etc.) Now pairs of hornbills feed outside this correspondent’s window”. Unfortunately, the other hornbill species are not nearly as adaptable.

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Rhinoceros Singapore Transported Hunting 130

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Bar-backed Partridge was also one of four focal species in an investigation into illegal bird hunting in Southwestern China. It should not be confused with “Bareback Partridge”, a desultory term used to describe certain sexual practices among pheasants in general.

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China Hunting Birds illegal 147

10,000 Birds

JUNE 7, 2022

But every photo is clearly here for a reason, whether to show juvenile plumage or large egg clutches or illegal trapping (many of the images in the Challenges and Conservation chapter are from CABS, the Committee Against Bird Slaughter). My Wryneck, Fang, Thailand, February 2019; copyright © Donna L.

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Woodpeckers Hungary Thailand 2014 245

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2022

When these birds breed, this can lead to highly cringeworthy announcements, for example from Adelaide Zoo : “We have egg-citing news!” Breeding pairs form exclusive social bonds, yet each partner will still mate with other individuals.” They just sit and pretend not to be there to avoid interaction.”

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Birds Australia Ducks Mountain Goats 239

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 17, 2012

When songbirds endeavor to head hundreds or thousands of miles south they are risking everything in order to find a place that they can winter and hopefully survive in order to head back north and breed. Migration is the single most dangerous thing that birds do and many don’t survive as Greg pointed out in his recent post.

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Feral Cats Cats Killing North America 190

10,000 Birds

APRIL 7, 2020

a close childhood friend of Lendrum’s, Howard Waller, breeds falcons for Sheikh Butti bin Maktoum, a member of the Dubai royal family. Waller, who gave one interview to Hammer, adamantly denies any illegal connection to Lendrum, despite allegations made by Mullins.

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Falcons United Kingdom Zimbabwe Eggs 221

10,000 Birds

MAY 3, 2011

Known breeding localities are now limited to only a few of the islands in the Caribbean including the Bahamas, Hispaniola, Puerto Rico, the Turks and Caicos, Jamaica, the Cayman Islands and Antigua/Barbuda. A recent focus has been on habitat preservation since wetlands in the Caribbean are a very scarce resource.

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Antigua and Barbuda Puerto Rico Dominican Republic Jamaica 230

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2024

” The website www.jwcpheasants.com seems to endorse polygamy for this species despite this being illegal in the USA for other animals such as humans. The site states that in captivity, “two hens can be paired with one male.” I lowered the volume and after a while they got used to it and slowly went back to sleep.”

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Burma Birds Vietnam Laos 202

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

There are more than 1,300 distribution maps, indicating resident birds, breeding visitors, and migrants. Eaton is co-founder and guide for Birdtour Asia, a passionate foe of illegal bird markets, and the author of numerous articles about little-known Southeast Asian bird species.

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Indonesia Brunei Birds Malaysia 132

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2015

Here local hunters had known about the colony and for generations had been harvesting the birds by simply picking the adults off their nests during the breeding season. According to the World Bank, up to 80 percent of Ghana’s forests had been destroyed by illegal logging by 2008. million hectares in 2007.

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Ghana Hunters Gambia Guinea 197

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

There seem to be so many that some days the negative stories just seem to pile up in my reader, species lost here, habitat destroyed there, poisoning, illegal persecution, the list can seem endless. It can be difficult not to feel impotent and under attack from all sides.

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Morocco Turtles Protest Protesting 174

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Hopefully, the winter time in Shanghai gives the Black-faced Buntings some time to relax from the challenges of the breeding season. One Japanese study found that it arrives at its breeding grounds earlier than in the past, most likely due to increased spring temperatures. No wonder no species are named after me.

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Birds Eggs Bangladesh China 218