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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

10,000 Birds

Below is a quotation directly from this paper by the Monitor Conservation Research Society: “Trade data from the range countries of Thailand and Vietnam and from Indonesia and USA, both non-range countries, revealed 10,841 Black-throated Laughingthrushes in trade, across 762 visits to 51 markets between 1966 and 2019.

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Birding Singapore

10,000 Birds

I guess having one racket is still enough to play the game, though it may not be sufficient to find a high-quality mate. 1) Not surprisingly, the Pink-necked Green Pigeon is widely distributed in Indonesia, where the batik technique was invented. It does indeed look like a racket – not a tennis one but a hockey one.

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Bowling for Rhinos

4 The Love Of Animals

All donations go to the National AAZK for distribution to the Lewa Wildlife Conservancy in Kenya, Africa, the Ujung Kulon National Park in Java, Indonesia and the Bukit Barisan Seletan National Park in Sumatra, Indonesia. Date: May 1, 2009. Time: 5:00pm-9:00pm. Location: Olympus Hills Bowling Alley. 4015 Wasatch Blvd.

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The Nonessential Whooping Crane

10,000 Birds

That’s what you do with other game, right? Soo…if all the cranes look white in a light regime like this, how does an excited gunman tell which one is the endangered one? Why not just shoot the biggest one? The biggest gobbler, the biggest buck… And this? I thought whooping cranes were all white.

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