10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2019

It is illegal to feed wild animals, take animals, birds and insects and it is also illegal to release animals in Singapore. There are also wild boars and macaque monkeys and you are advised to not rustle plastic bags, because they associate the noise with food. We started our day by walking from the main jetty to Chek Jawa Wetlands.

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Singapore Birds illegal Eagles 133

10,000 Birds

MARCH 5, 2011

These Blasts From The Past Ease Into Some Oekologie Oekologie #10 Undercover Taxidermist Busts Illegal Hunters Cerulean Warbler Gets a Boost in Colombia Audubon Rebrand About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens.

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2011 Deer Cuba Hunters 145

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 7, 2020

Species order follows the AOU Checklist of North American Birds up to the 2015 supplement (so warblers come before sparrows), with a variation– certain subspecies are treated as full species (Eurasian Teal, Western Willet, Audubon’s Warblers, Red Fox Sparrow, and more). . It’s a very mixed chapter.

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New York City New York Birds Breeding 157

10,000 Birds

MARCH 18, 2011

In fact, all of the images of Scarlet Macaws in this post are of the birds that live at Copan Archeological Park, birds that were seized at the border before they could be illegally exported.* If it weren’t such a horrible thing to do one might almost understand why folks would want to poach and cage Scarlet Macaws.

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Honduras 2011 Deer Birds 154

10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2021

I can’t really blame the farmers, even though much of the expansion of avocado orchards is the product of illegal slash-and-burn practices (as in the photo below, which I took just last week). S triped-headed Sparrows. Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrows. The state is, after all, Mexico’s fourth-poorest state.

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Costa Rica Birds Mexico illegal 150

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2018

Shakespeare was, supposedly , the reason starlings, house sparrows, and other non-native birds were introduced to North America. Ten thousand years ago, Thomas notes, house sparrows were unknown in Britain. By the time of Queen Elizabeth I, they were considered vermin, a bounty placed on their small heads. What’s magic about 1970?

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Humane Species North America Sparrows 105

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Unfortunately, Hen Harriers die disproportionally near British Grouse moors – most likely killed illegally by people hunting grouse for sports ( source ). As with many other bird species, the Latin name of the Hen Harrier , cyaneus (“dark blue”), is not a very good description of the female.

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