Critter News
MARCH 7, 2012
The story, by author and animal rights activist Ernest Dempsey calls Stanwood, Washington “Death Row for horses” because of the location not far away of a “major buying station, collection point and feedlot for U.S. horses destined to die and be butchered in one of Canada’s equine slaughterhouses for human consumption abroad.”
10,000 Birds
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. In fact, bulbuls are the work horses of the bird world in many parts of Asia and Africa.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 10, 2022
With regard to the Grey-backed Thrush , “further research should focus on identification of nest predators, implications of nest exposure and begging calls on nesting success, and breeding habitat requirements at different spatial and temporal scales of Grey-backed Thrush in fragmented landscapes of northeast China.”
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2023
In Kangding, there is a rather opulent bird hide – two stories, solid construction, spacious, lots of glass, a separate paved parking lot, though mysteriously (and as far as I can tell from my experience of living in China for almost 20 years, not indicative of fundamentally different physical needs of Chinese people) missing a bathroom.
Animal Person
MARCH 26, 2009
One good acquaintance I could probably call a friend is an ethics professor who flies back and forth from Texas to China frequently argued in a group pertaining to bestiality. This occurs in all animal breeders: bovine, horses, dogs, cats, pigs, and other animals. He was the only one against it for religious reasons.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 10, 2013
We did have the good fortune of finding an individually marked Bar-tailed Godwit that was marked in Yalu Jiang Nature Reserve in China last April 15th and was last seen there on May 11th 2012. Sometimes they were with horses, but that’s OK! It appears to work very well and the birds were relaxed. Shorebird roost at Toorbul.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 26, 2018
Horses bolted. Restoration of the Yi qi dinosaur from the late Jurassic era, China, by Emily Willoughby, used under Creative Commons license. Children screamed and ran for home. Women gathered their long skirts and hurried for the shelter of stores. … Day was turned to dusk.
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