10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

On average, over 100 rhinos were illegally killed each month. We haven’t seen the reason yet, but suddenly you could have palpated a tension in the air that made the zebras step away and even one female Ostrich stand up… Then the Lord of the waterhole came, a young – although nine years old White Rhinoceros.

Rhinos 173

Rhinos South Africa Rhinoceros White Rhinos 173

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Indeed, the proposal to up-list four southern African populations to Appendix I could well have opened a back door to illegal international trade.”. But the “illegal international trade” is already there, killing – among other places – in Kruger (S.

Elephants 185

Elephants Botswana Zimbabwe Africa 185

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2018

71): Ingredients include feathers from a Spangled Cotinga (called ‘Chatterer’ by tiers), Blue Macaw, Red-Ruffed Fruitcrow (‘Indian Crow’), Ostrich, and, according to Johnson, Golden Pheasant (the jungle c**k, I think). Here it is as typed out in The Feather Thief (p.

Collecting 103

Collecting Iraq Ostriches Science 103

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 5, 2014

1700, is a fake, formed from a plaster cast of a real Dodo head and real Dodo feet combined with chicken wings and Ostrich feathers. 40, 1895) helped me appreciate practices that were essential to the late 19 th century naturalist, though controversial and, in the case of oology, illegal today. I’m not sure what to make of this.

Mauritius 172

Mauritius Collecting Egypt Cyprus 172