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Unethical Photographers Bait Critically Endangered Eagles

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Charlie is an amateur nature photographer from Singapore who has been birdwatching for close to 15 years now. The purpose of using bait was to be able to capture action shots of the bird swooping in for the kill. 10,000 Birds readers love terrific bird photography but hate bird abuse. A Grey-headed Fish Eagle photographed ethically.

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Birding Tabin, Sabah, Borneo

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The Plain Sunbird is the plain vanilla version of the otherwise often very colorful family (ok, a very low-budget sort of joke). ” If you have ever been to Singapore, you will know that about half the places there are named after Sir Thomas Stamford Bingley Raffles (1781 – 1826). “Dull, me?”

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Birding Shanghai in May 2023 – Part 1

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A paper reports on how a female Common Cuckoo was mobbed and killed by Oriental Reed Warbler hosts. While to my knowledge the Large Hawk-Cuckoo only migrates through Nanhui, the Common Cuckoo stays here in summer and looks for host species, particularly the Oriental Reed Warbler.

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