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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

10,000 Birds

The chapter titled “Chasing Angels,” for example, starts with naval officer Irven Buss using his naval ship’s radar to track birds off the coast of China in 1946. There are many strands that make up the scientific investigations into the question, “Where do the birds go?”

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Birding Yancheng, Jiangsu

10,000 Birds

While these birds are very much liked by Chinese birders, the species could unfortunately not be named the National Bird of China as the Latin species name of the bird is Grus Japonicus. From my home in Shanghai, it is about a four-hour drive to the North to Yancheng, a place to look for Red-crowned Cranes in winter.

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Birding Wuyuan, China

10,000 Birds

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. Wuyuan is in Jiangxi province. I’d rather see yellow birds than yellow plants.

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Pangolins Saved from "Harvesting" by Trafficker

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After about three weeks of surveillance and investigations, the department’s Wildlife Crime Unit raided the house early Wednesday morning and found the smuggled pangolins along with 6.5 Tags: wildlife crime Traditional Chinese Medicine trafficking china malaysia. pounds of pangolin scales. "We

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Birding Napo, Guangxi, China – part 1

10,000 Birds

The Bar-backed Partridge is a species of partridge found in southwestern China and Southeast Asia. The Bar-backed Partridge was also one of four focal species in an investigation into illegal bird hunting in Southwestern China. If I can give you some advice: Better not be a bird in China. Unsurprisingly, it is.

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Tropical Cyclone Iggy

10,000 Birds

We have been aware of large flocks of the smaller species using Cable Beach during the day and night on very high tides to roost for some years and decided to risk the weather and investigate. The sea has been rough and there has actually been some surf!

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On Google, HSUS and Fur

Animal Person

link] If Markarian cares about the fur animals of China, he could easily demand that HP stop selling fur on his blog. The horrors of fur farming in China will never end until we in America stop advertising and buying it. All the evidence you need is on [link] -- there is no investigation required. They're not hiding anything.)

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