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Threatened Birds of Nanhui, Shanghai

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This means that every year, millions of birds fly by the city on their way between their breeding grounds in Northern Asia and their wintering spots in Southeast Asia and Australia. A former World Wildlife reserve in Nanhui was simply turned into agricultural land.

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Attempt to Recover Sumatran Rhino Species

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A breeding program in Malaysia will attempt to breed a rescued Borneo Sumatran rhino in order to save the endangered species. Tags: captive breeding rhino asia malaysia. Their numbers are so low that they might drift into extinction if no one does anything," Payne told The Associated Press.

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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

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If you want to know what happened on August 31, 1984, I can name at least one event: In the Padang-Sugihan Wildlife Reserve in South Sumatra province, a Large Frogmouth was mobbed by a Greater Racket-tailed Drongo, as described here. At between 4 pm and 6 pm, to be exact.

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Penguins, Parrots and Wine on Matiu / Somes Island

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As I have explained before these islands are the best place for a lot of the birding here because they are more easily protected from introduced mammals which wreck such havoc on the wildlife here. Since 1984 it has been planted with native bush and pests were controlled, and is now used as a wildlife reserve.

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Week 21: Our last week in Scotland

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What started as a small group of birds, with the hope they would make it on their own, is now a very strong breeding population. Tomorrow morning we will head on down to England, and the township of Hull, to visit the Spurn Wildlife Reserve. Todays demonstration was certainly enough to convince me that the program was working.

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