Cats China Raised Species 
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 2, 2021
Presumably, the parents of black drongo chicks sometimes meet with Red-billed Starlings to sympathize with each other about the challenges of raising chicks these days. Given the limited amount of creativity available here in my apartment, this has sometimes led to the problem of these cats being given rather uninspired names.
4 The Love Of Animals
SEPTEMBER 13, 2011
Nat Geo WILD takes viewers around the world to follow dedicated people working to save Nature’s Miracle Babies – often the last hope for critically vulnerable species. Each animal they raise to adulthood is a step away from extinction, with the ultimate challenge to return them to the wild. Tuesday, September 13, at 8P ET/PT.
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10,000 Birds
JANUARY 22, 2015
The lake consists of a large body of open water, a belt of tall yellow grass (where a big orange cat can blend and disappear if it chooses so) and, all around it, thick forests of predominantly teak, interspersed with thickets of bamboo. The closer one raises her head, than lies back. These are my first wild tigers ever!
10,000 Birds
JUNE 9, 2022
After writing this last sentence, I looked up the species in the HBW and found the sentence “Song poorly documented” in the appropriate section, while with regard to calls, the description is that “call is a two-note raspy nasal ‘ryeeh-reh’”. In New Zealand, the Spotted Dove is an introduced species.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 2, 2023
Not a cover species The Black Kite is not actually black, but of course, misleading bird names are not exactly rare. It is mostly a question of economics – raising just one is troublesome enough given the resources required to feed and educate the chick. No surprise then that the species is listed as Vulnerable.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
The White-shouldered Starling is not very common in Shanghai or even in China in general, despite its species name sinensis. It is another species on which limited information is available – there is still work left for ornithologists outside of the determination of mitochondrial DNA. Who would have thought.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 31, 2023
Like the Eastern Crowned Warbler (which eBird mysteriously calls a “boldly marked songbird” despite its similarity to about 50 other warbler species) … … and the Arctic Warbler (or maybe some other warbler looking very similar). Fortunately, the Brown Shrike does not make me think of Mr. Trump.
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