10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2015

Shot an elephant. For being a girl that beat a guy in a computer game. For being a feminist with an opinion on comic books, or games. The mobs that once enforced “justice” in the streets now do so online. I think we’ve all done it. We’ve posted a link of someone doing something shameful. For being trans.

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Critter News

JULY 7, 2009

Trafficking in ivory and game meat has become one of the most lucrative illegal trades in Africa due to rising demand in Asia, experts said on Friday. "In Tags: wildlife crime ivory africa trafficking asia elephants. There is no magic, no power, NOTHING to it. It's just so frustrating! From the AFP.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Ndumo Game Reserve lies in the Easternmost part of South Africa, close to the border of Mozambique and Eswatini. On this trip, this forced me to participate in a side trip to the nearby Tembe Elephant Park. Pel’s Fishing Owl, where were you? Mostly just oversized grey mammals there, not too many birds.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2015

The river cruises up the Chobe River are most famous for the dry season aggregations of African Bush Elephants drawn to the year-round water. But even without huge herds of elephants large game is defiantly the major draw for most people on the cruise.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 13, 2015

These vast and rugged lands of savanna, hills, gorges and rivers still protect some of Ethiopia’s largest extant herds of typical African savanna game, including African Elephant, African Buffalo, Giraffe, Lion, Leopard, African Wild Dog and numerous species of grazers. Yellow-billed Stork.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 14, 2021

Finally, South Africa has three 400+ hotspots, namely 1 Mkhuze Game Reserve 458 sp. Other wildlife includes 60 mammal species, 13 primates among them, Chimp tracking, Forest Elephants too. 3 Lake Manyara NP 573 sp. 4 Arusha NP 565 sp. 5 Tarangire NP 519 sp. 2 Phinda GR 447 sp. 3 Kruger NP–Skukuza Camp 428 sp.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

It was the start of the shark season, which meant I saw my first Great White Shark attacks on Northern Elephant Seals , but it was also the best season for whales. It was astonishing, like a game drive in the savannah of Africa. The seas often seemed far calmer, and full of life in early September. A Humpback Whale.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 16, 2012

But since Horton is an elephant, and since the creature that hatches from the egg is an elephant-bird, I’m going to wait till 10,000 Birds does a Hybrid Bird Week before discussing this representative of the Seussiverse. The Pigeon has spawned an empire of books, DVDs, plush toys, games, and musical theater.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Nowhere else in Africa do the preconceived ideas of the continent really exist in such living detail; tall, red-robed Maasai herding their skinny cattle, endless grasslands studded with flat-topped Acacia trees and grazed by herds of zebras and wildebeest, and dramatic volcanic calderas brimming with big game and fierce predators!

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10,000 Birds

JULY 11, 2013

A dusty-red road leads me through Marico bushveld deeper into the 750 square kilometers large wilderness of the Madikwe Game Reserve – the 4th largest reserve in South Africa, home to 350 bird and 66 mammal species, some 4 hours’ drive from Johannesburg. Two young bull elephants slowly walk along the road in front of us.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2021

But sometimes it’s impossible to ignore the proverbial elephant in the room. On our way out we came across a tree with several drenched Turkey Vultures playing a waiting game with the weather. Some of my favourite birding areas in the higher elevation areas have changed dramatically over the past five years.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2012

Okavango sunset Almost 40% of all land in Botswana is under conservation either as wilderness areas, game reserves or national parks. It is also home to the largest concentration of African Elephants on the planet and over 450 bird species. Few countries can boast the megafaunal diversity of the Okavango Delta.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 14, 2012

These beaters usually take the form of grazing herds of game and domestic animals, and large flocks of carmine bee-eaters may gather overhead. Little Bee-eaters are commonly found in all of Africa’s famous big game parks and have even taken to residing in golf courses, where they nest in holes excavated in the bunkers.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 16, 2016

Madikwe may have been farmland once upon a time but these days it has been fully restored as an astonishing game reserve. It’s the only park I have ever been to that not only have I seen all five of the Big Five (Lion, Leopard, African Buffalo, White Rhino and African Elephant) in, but seen them all on the same day.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 28, 2022

Logging roads have opened up vast areas to commercial hunting, leading to industrial-scale poaching and a more than 60 per cent drop in the region’s Forest Elephant population in less than a decade. Mammals include Western Lowland Gorilla, Forest Elephant and Forest Buffalo, and eleven diurnal primates.

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Critter News

JUNE 26, 2009

Four chimpanzees were killed last week in the central zone and 11 elephants since the start of the year," park director Emmanuel de Merode told AFP. He added "a large number of game animals", including antelopes, had also been slaughtered.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 30, 2020

No doubt, the big five of Sri Lanka include the biggest of the big ever – the Blue Whale , followed by Sperm Whale , Asian Elephant , Leopard and Sloth Bear. Blue Whale – 80%, Sperm Whale on 1 in 3 trips, Asian Elephant 100%, Leopard on 1 in 2 game drives, Sloth Bear on 1 in 3 game drives.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Take the Selous Game Reserve in Tanzania. Similarly, the property protects an impressive large mammal fauna; it contains globally significant populations of African elephant (Loxodontha africana) (106,300), black rhinoceros (Diceros bicornis) (2,135) and wild hunting dog (Lycaon pictus).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 30, 2022

Yala National Park is brimming with wildlife and there are good chances of seeing Leopard , Sloth Bear and Asian Elephant , while it is also excellent for dry-zone birds, while the nearby Bundala coastal marshes and Palatupana ponds are good spots for shorebirds.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2012

Image taken in Selous Game Reserve, Tanzania. Other more fanciful discoveries on his journey included the Ivory-Eater (Sciurus eborivorus), a squirrel with huge gnawing teeth that scours the rainforest in search of elephant carcasses! This image was taken in Namibia’s Erongo Mountains. Image from Kakamega Forest, Kenya.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 28, 2018

The definition of the word HUNT is “to chase or search for game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing.” Lacey of Iowa introduced the nation’s first wildlife-protection law, which banned the interstate shipping of unlawfully killed game. A newly created U.S.

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