Critter News
MARCH 22, 2009
Conservation groups have staged protests in 20 Russian cities this week, demanding an end to the slaughter. Activists accused Norwegian companies of encouraging the killing because seal hunting was no longer allowed in their own country.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2014
Back to Gipsy and toward a distant group of farmers working their fields. Sociable Lapwings breed in several areas along the Kazakhstani – Russian border and overwinter in Iraq, Sudan and northwest India. Peter is running back from his recce: some 600 meters away, he has noticed about 15 Sociable Lapwings in flight!
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10,000 Birds
MARCH 6, 2023
Today, the national forest park is open to tourists – which in China means large groups of people in similarly large buses. Shockingly, the Ashy-throated Parrotbill apparently is a species heavily hunted for bird fighting in Guizhou Province, China ( source ). Shame on the researchers.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2021
Great Frigatebirds engage in “unihemispheric sleep” on hunting trips of six to ten days, never landing, sleeping less than an hour in a 24-hour cycle, often keeping one-half of their brain awake while the other slept. Still–it’s a lot of material to take in. Pause again to think about having this superpower.).
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