10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

Within its Belt and Road Initiative, China asked for this location for the new harbour. In other words, Serbia will take an expensive Chinese credit in order to hire a Chinese company and their labour (hence, the Chinese funding goes back to China) to build a harbour that will immediately be given to the Chinese concessionaire.

Serbia 246

Serbia Otters Boars Eagles 246

Animal Person

JANUARY 27, 2010

I've been blogging here less partly because I've been blogging at Animal Rights & AntiOppression (check out my latest post " On Corporate Personhood and Animal Rights " and the better-than-the-post comments) but also because I've been feeling like a broken record and I don't want to bore anyone. What do you think?

China 100

China Cats Speciesism Dogs 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 1, 2022

Shanghai parks are rather crowded and noisy places, but the goshawks – who unlike me have lived in China all their lives – apparently do not mind. Coming from somebody who has exiled himself to China, this is not exactly a compliment. Actually, as I just found out, this is not really new information. but they do.

Birds 147

Birds China Eggs Breeding 147

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2022

One strange thing about Chongming is the inevitable presence of people fishing. Not professionally – these people come in SUVs and probably never recapture their gas money from the fish they catch (though come to think of it, neither do I with my bird photos). of catching extremely small fish. meters instead of 0.7

Birds 162

Birds South Korea Japan Abandon 162

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

1201-1400 sp: Venezuela; China. This portal has compared on a per unit of area basis data on the percentage of a total global number of species of birds, amphibians, mammals, reptiles, fish and vascular plants, creating a biodiversity index. 1101-1200 sp: Mexico; Argentina; DR Congo (Kinshasa), Tanzania, Kenya; India.

Equatorial Guinea 207

Equatorial Guinea Costa Rica Guyana Central African Republic 207

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2020

Their use in ancient China is attested in the Huainanzi , a collection of essays compiled before 139 BCE. A few of my own observations of birds perching on Albany, New York’s weathervanes (clockwise from the upper right): A pair of Fish Crows ( Corvus ossifragus ) perched on a “fish”vane (what else?)

New York 156

New York Farming Belgium Fowl 156

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

Right: Robert McCormick, by Stephen Pearce. Unlike Darwin, who was a self-funded gentleman naturalist on board, McCormick was bound to the Beagle by his duties and was furious that a civilian passenger on board had usurped his rightful position as ship’s naturalist. (“Antarctica” by Kim Stanley Robinson, 1998).

Russia 181

Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 181

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2014

Off to the nearest kaiki (traditional Greek fishing boat) followed by a flock of shearwaters and gulls. On our way back, three Common Bottlenose Dolphins show right next to the boat and, some time later, a Painted Lady ( Vanessa cardui ) butterfly appears some 300 metres downwind from the shore. diomedea ).

Greece 242

Greece Malta Croatia Birds 242

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

This is a bird I had been looking for for a long time – it is not actually particularly rare in China (in fact, I have heard its call many times and also use it as the wake-up call for my mobile phone), but somehow I had never seen one, to the point of writing frivolous comments in eBird-Lists (“Collared Owlet. A Collared Owlet.

2020 245

2020 Birds Costa Rica Germany 245

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

melli is the Hong Kong form that visits during the winter from southern China. Fish & Wildlife Service expects sea levels to rise due to global warming, swamping beaches on which Snowy Plovers currently nest, it is good news that the number of beaches proposed for protection as Snowy Plover nesting habitat has doubled. In the Z.c.

2011 191

2011 Deer India New York 191

10,000 Birds

MARCH 8, 2020

9 beats visited 9 countries (China, Costa Rica, USA, UK, India, Australia, Jamaica , Serbia and Japan) and submitted 151 checklists when they got back. Fish Crow – Corvus ossifragus. Note; The Megalomanagement reserve the right to refuse to gift prizes on the grounds that they are The Megalomanagement. Just me then?

2020 157

2020 Sanctuary Australia Sparrows 157