Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The call was issued after the animal rights group discovered that the fur were sourced from the raccoon dog in China, ABC Radio Australia reports. About 10 million dogs in China are killed for their fur, prompting an animal rights group to seek a ban on fur trade to Australia.

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Critter News

JANUARY 16, 2011

In order to offset the loss of the seal product market in Europe, Canada has made a deal with China. China as a whole still doesn't have a national conscience about these issues. Although 40 Chinese animal rights groups have protested, they don't really have any political or financial clout to change anything.

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FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Sadly, the HBW states that the species is “almost extinct in some areas in China owing to hunting and trapping for the cagebird trade and taxidermy” The Maroon Oriole looks much more interesting, though my photos do not really do it full justice.

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Reddit Animals

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Universal Images Group via Getty Images/Giovanni Mereghetti Chinese demand for gelatin is decimating donkey populations in Africa, prompting officials to curb exports of the animals. Africa curbs donkey exports ?Universal

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

Last year, two Serbian ornithologists were guiding a group of French birders and, prior to their return to the airport, the guides phoned me to enquire how to reach Beljarica – they had dipped the White-tailed Eagle! Within its Belt and Road Initiative, China asked for this location for the new harbour. Easily enough, they got it here.

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MARCH 18, 2021

Take the Grey-eyed Bulbul , which eBird describes as a “drab, undistinguished-looking bulbul” Seeing this bird in Xishuangbanna, Yunnan, China in December last year, I though it was actually quite appealing. Brown-breasted Bulbul , looking dull in various locations in China. White-throated Bulbul (Hongbenghe, China).

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JUNE 10, 2021

In contrast, the Amur Paradise Flycatcher regularly breeds in China, even in Shanghai. Unfortunately, the National People’s Congress of the People’s Republic of China declined my request to make nametags for leaf warblers mandatory (despite the obvious benefits this would bring), so these birds will remain difficult to id.

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JUNE 17, 2023

Today, I invite you to join me, Kai Pflug, on an extraordinary avian expedition as we explore the vibrant cityscape of Shanghai, a hidden gem for birdwatchers in the heart of China. Birding Beyond the City: For the more adventurous birder, Shanghai serves as a gateway to explore the diverse landscapes of eastern China.

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APRIL 3, 2023

In truth, it is present in many parts of China (not mentioned) but not really in Tibet. This is not an issue here in Shanghai – I have only seen them in very small groups this winter. This leads us to the shocking realization that there is a mistake on the internet. Apparently, there once was a Buick model named Buick Skylark.

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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. Within group, all males copulate with all females.” ” (HBW).

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APRIL 13, 2016

That’s what a group of researchers suggest in a paper recently published in Behavioral Ecology. The scientists, who studied bird populations in Europe and China , speculate that urban areas may have some appeal for passerines that rural areas otherwise lack. Songbirds may congregate in urban areas more than you’d expect.

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MARCH 11, 2024

It seems this species is shy even by pitta standards – the HBW calls it a “very shy and secretive pitta, easily overlooked” and says that it is “very rare in China (S. ” ( source ).

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NOVEMBER 15, 2021

These are the tradeoffs of modern life in China. Calls include nasal wheezes, squeals, cackling and churring; combinations of rather high nasal “u-err”, quick high nasal “ii” and rolling “pwaaowa” calls uttered by groups of two or more individuals. October is probably not a good time to visit this place. Fortunately, they are not.

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MAY 2, 2023

It could easily be mistaken for a book about aviation or space navigation or even a flight simulator game if you don’t read the long, adjective-filled subtitle: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration. The photographs, many by the author, are credited at the end of the book.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2022

In retrospect, this weekend at Wuyuan was not exactly my finest hour as a bird photographer – hopefully, I could do better now, and perhaps one day I will, should normal traveling ever be possible again in China. Well, they live in groups, something I would never survive. Wuyuan is in Jiangxi province.

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Critter News

MARCH 27, 2011

I love this organization and have supported them for a few years now. Please consider Animals Asia for your future donations. They do important work.

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APRIL 18, 2022

I saw a few of each group, with the obvious exception of the second one. Looks a bit like one of the White-Eyes we have here in China, but taken as a black-and-white photo. Being an island, Mauritius has its share of endemics, extinct endemics (the dodo again), and introduced species.

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AUGUST 22, 2014

A cooperative female Golden Bush-Robin, usually seen in the Himalayan foothills or southern China’s highlands. However, the biggest reason Doi Lang has rapidly become one of Thailand’s great birding destinations is the long list of vagrants that show up on the mountain every year, depending on how harsh the winter is in China.

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Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

I received this from Chris in China, and it underscores the importance of posting videos beyond YouTube. Dear MFA, Youtube.com is blocked in China. US groups need to make sure they post their videos on multiple sharing sites (at least on Vimeo.com). For farm animals, China is America 2.0 in the worst way.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

Two baby orang-utans and a lion cub have become the latest victims of China's contaminated milk crisis. Chinese media report that the animals had been fed on milk powder made by Sanlu Group for more than a year. Tags: china.

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Critter News

JANUARY 24, 2011

The arrival of 48 monkeys on a flight from China this weekend has brought Air Canada under fire for shipping primates destined for research laboratories, but the airline says it is obliged by federal law to accept monkeys as cargo. Under pressure from animal rights groups and the public, many airlines have banned the practice.

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MARCH 23, 2014

Big news about a small bird broke earlier this month when bird researchers from several nations announced that the species formerly known as Spotted Wren-Babbler ( Spelaeornis formosus ) — a tiny, secretive bird of montane forests from the eastern Himalayas to southeast China — is not a Spelaeornis wren-babbler at all.

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APRIL 15, 2011

EXTRA CREDIT Name a guide or a group that you would recommend using when visiting. Instead, name one of the endemic species in this country.

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MAY 15, 2023

In Indonesia, Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpeckers can be ordered online – offers are posted in closed Facebook groups. So, there are some positive aspects of Facebook being blocked in China. ” From Memphis, Tennessee directly to Tengchong, Yunnan: The Crested Finchbill. In 2015, the price for this bird was 35 USD ( source ).

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JANUARY 21, 2016

Consequently, the Ross Sea has become a focus of numerous environmental groups who have campaigned for a world marine reserve. In October 2014, during a meeting in Hobart, Australia, the protection of this important region was once again blocked by China and Russia. Back to the Future – the Case for Protection.

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JUNE 11, 2011

Being part of the polyphyletic Larus group ( a group that does not contain the most recent common ancestor and whose common feaure developed seperately), makes them the grit in the cladistic (natural ancestrally related grouping) vaseline however and a new genus has been proposed, making the binomials, Chroicocephalus ridibundus and C.

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NOVEMBER 20, 2011

When they depart on their northward migration it is possible to go into Roebuck Bay in the late afternoon and watch them group up, call and then take off in beautiful V-formations. They have returned from the north, though more are returning and there is very little knowledge on their arrival back in the Bay.

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NOVEMBER 11, 2021

You can easily see that this blog post is trying to appeal to two very different target groups – birders and those who like independent/alternative music. learning to swim” A baby bird ( Robin Accentor , Dulan, China). Several baby birds ( Little Egret , Shanghai, China). Black-necked Crane , Qinghai Lake, China.

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MARCH 20, 2011

This year will be tough on many birds as further mudflat destruction to construct factories in China means that they may not be able to feed in areas that they have known in the past. We receive some beautiful photos from China of individually marked shorebirds on migration each year as they travel through the Flyway.

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OCTOBER 17, 2019

In contrast, Oriental Scops Owls seem to often migrate in slightly larger groups of maybe 10 or so. Northern Boobooks are mostly found as individuals. They look a bit like cartoon birds, with ridiculously huge yellow eyes. They even try to roost close together during the daytime.

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4 The Love Of Animals

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

For example, shark fin soup is a delicacy in most of Asia, especially China. There are many groups and people working to end this practice, and with any luck bringing it to light will help speed along the process. In fact, dried shark fin can go for as much as $300 a pound or more.

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DECEMBER 2, 2014

Karen studied graphic design in London and has illustrated a number of books on Asian birds, plants, and wildlife, including the mammoth A Field Guide to the Birds of China (co-authored with John MacKinnon, Oxford Univ. Species Accounts are grouped by family, following what appears to be Sibley and Monroe’s 1996 taxonomy. (I

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DECEMBER 21, 2014

The prinias are a group of around 25 Old World warbler species found in Africa and Asia. It inhabits rather dry areas within a region notorious for being one of the rainiest parts of the world, and is thus patchily distributed from Burma through Laos, Cambodia, parts of Thailand and south China, all the way to Vietnam.

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MARCH 25, 2017

White’s Thrush contains two subspecies, aurea and toratugumi; and Scaly Thrush includes the subspecies dauma, major, and horsfieldi, each of which also is recogized as a monotypic group. Nilgiri Thrush and Sri Lanka Thrush are monotypic. Reference: Rasmussen, P.C., Birds of South Asia. The Ripley guide. Volume 2: attributes and status.

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MAY 23, 2022

At this moment, Baihualing is the eBird hotspot in China which has by far the largest number of species – 486. The scimitar gave the name to a group of birds, the 17 species of scimitar babblers (claims that these birds were named after the Scottish naturalist Edgar Scimitar, 1755-1806, are plainly wrong).

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MARCH 6, 2023

The last time I birded Longcanggou, a national forest park in China’s Sichuan province, was in November 2021. Today, the national forest park is open to tourists – which in China means large groups of people in similarly large buses. However, instead of a tit joke, some wren pornography.

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APRIL 4, 2022

.” This should make the bird somewhat unpopular with the socially rather conservative Chinese government – maybe the birds in China do not show this behavior in order to adapt to local customs? On the other hand, given China’s low birth rate, they might serve as an example for the future.

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