10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2022

This is the usual game viewing routine in reserves of Africa and India. In India, no one goes at mid-day because of the heat and the law. What is the right stuff for you? Tropical Easy but Active – few hours in the morning, rest and few hours in late afternoon. Time and effort-wise, what types of birding do you recognise?

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India Birds Africa Game 261

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2020

Note that that’s “PA” without the “I”, which used to stand for “India” back in the nineteenth century but it’s really nothing more than a meaningless, alphabetical vestige these days. and flipped the old hierarchy of India pale ale and pale around forever.

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Ducks India America Rights 161

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2024

Gosney’s guide is lightweight and no-nonsense, offering straightforward directions like “on that meadow on the left look for these species,” but its maps resemble those from early hippy guides to India—hand-drawn and difficult to follow with hard-to-read handwritten details. Birding in Greece ” by Chris Vlachos et al.,

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

A monkey was rescued from a factory in India where it was being held in captivity. According to the article, "Zoochosis is a term used by animal rights activists in reference to the degrading effect of zoos on animals that have been kept in captivity over a long period of time. Tags: India animal cruelty macaque zoochosis.

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India Monkeys Rescue Animal Cruelty 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2020

These photos were actually taken right from my hotel room. Not every bird in India is colorful. Though with just two birds and no alcohol in sight, this may not be the right term. Also a regular in Shanghai. Black Francolin. Very shy, unfortunately. Black Ibis. Yes, I can understand how the bird got its name. Black Kite.

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Cattle India Birds Sanctuary 233

10,000 Birds

JULY 9, 2015

India, February 2013. I am camping in the dry-deciduous jungle in eastern Maharashtra, near the geographic heart of India. In the morning, still sleepy, we enter the jungle, where a sounder of Indian Boars (a long-maned subspecies Sus scrofa cristatus ) is watching us, standing among the first trees, right next to the road.

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Tigers Dogs India Snow Leopard 250

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2023

There’s an incoming car in my lane, and I am not in India! Not at all, they are very right to protest, and I have no issue with the farmers – we all share the same enemy, our own President. A mile later, there’s a traffic jam in front of us, where everyone stands still. Am I annoyed with the farmers, angry at them?

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Protest Protesting Protesters Germany 207

10,000 Birds

JUNE 20, 2022

. “I am not bad-looking, I am just badly photographed”: A Bay Woodpecker (Fraser’s Hill, Malaysia) using a joke from “Roger Rabbit” The pinkish eyerings of the Brown-capped Pygmy Woodpecker (Tansa, India) make it look as if it is constantly suffering from a hangover.

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Woodpeckers South Africa China Singapore 256

10,000 Birds

MARCH 27, 2015

The last time I visited my friend India, who lives in the hills above Karatu, I brought my own field guide and filled a notebook with bird names, descriptions, and sketches. India founded and, along with Managing Director Peter Leon Mmassey, runs the Tanzanian Children’s Fund. But that was seven years ago. But that was seven years ago.

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Mongoose Chickens India Wildlife Rehabilitation 208

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2013

Located in the Kutch District of Gujarat, the Naliya Grassland is the smallest reserve of India, covering only 2 square kilometers (yes – 0.77 Once this species inhabited wide steppes of India and Pakistan, but nowadays remain in ever smaller and more isolated habitat fragments. Trips Great Indian Bustard India'

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India Gazelles Endangered Species Pakistan 251

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

There’s a Three-striped Palm Squirrel by the side of the track, while Jungle Bush Quails are running across it in front of our Maruti Gypsy, almost the official safari vehicle of India. Somewhere below that mysterious eagle, at the far shore of the lake, lies one Bengal Tiger … and further to the right – two more!

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Tigers India Killing 2012 257

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 5, 2013

Not that the iridescent sheen on an adult European Starling isn’t attractive in its way when the light hits it just right, but when your native avifauna consists of orioles and warblers and hummingbirds, nothing the starling is dressed in can really compare. Rosy Starlings winter in this part of India in huge numbers.

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India Stray Dog United States Stray 162

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2022

As the species has a rather large area of distribution including Thailand and India, chances are not too bad in the long run. Right now I do not have anything interesting to say about the Hainan Blue Flycatcher , except that it is not a Hainan endemic. The main spa users these days are Grey Wagtails.

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Birds Egypt China 2002 271

10,000 Birds

MARCH 19, 2014

The serpent-eagles of the genus Spilornis are an Asian group, not to be confused with two different genera found in Africa or, for that matter, the snake-eagles, a mostly African but also European and Asian genus (simple, right?). This species ranges from India to Japan and south down Borneo.

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Eagles Japan India Africa 182

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 1, 2021

With this novel ingredient, English and Scottish brewers had been pioneering lighter beer styles like India pale ale as early as the eighteenth century, but darker brown beers remained the staple in the German-speaking lands of Dreher’s time.

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Boston Austria Industry Europe 204

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2015

I live in the southeast of Europe, for a while lived in the south of Africa and also have extensively birded western and central India. Which leaves me with quite a few choices – practically the entire tropical belt, right? India (1180 / 1171). Map by BirdLife International. Taking as a rule, the higher figure is more accurate.

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Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 257

Critter News

JANUARY 4, 2010

From the Economic Times (part of the India Times, I think). India’s newfound partnership with China on environment issues has yielded results in the area of tiger protection as well. whether it be animal rights or human rights. Tags: India wildlife trafficking poaching tigers china. I'm too, too cynical.

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Tigers China Protection Trafficking 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

As in this quote by Mr. Andrew Breitbart: “Liberals in blue states just think that they are on the right side of history, and anybody that disagrees with them has to be a troglodyte or a neanderthal.” He was from the area but had apparently been traveling to India to see the Dalai Lama.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 14, 2021

As long as this decidedly bird-themed brewery – located right down the road from my house – keeps putting out beers, I may be set on Birds and Booze material for quite a while. So, tomorrow night I’ll be looking forward to coming home to a can of this week’s featured beer, Dissimulation India Pale Ale. But can you blame me?

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India Boston 2018 Birds 171

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 13, 2021

Other than paint, the only other thing I do is organize and joint-lead wildlife tours, mostly in Africa and India. I am a wildlife artist based in the UK, I have never had a real job! Those waters never see the sea! The Okavango Delta is rightly famous as one of the last great unspoilt wild places on earth.

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Botswana Africa Elephants Angola 198

10,000 Birds

MAY 12, 2016

This is the usual game viewing routine in reserves of Africa and India. In India, no one goes at mid-day because of the heat and the law. What is the right stuff for you? Tropical Easy but Active – few hours in the morning, rest and few hours in late afternoon. Time and effort-wise, what types of birding do you recognise?

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Birds India Africa Serbia 123

10,000 Birds

JULY 19, 2018

1101-1200 sp: Mexico; Argentina; DR Congo (Kinshasa), Tanzania, Kenya; India. . – now the pace quickens: USA; Angola, Cameroon, Nigeria, Uganda, Sudan, Ethiopia; Nepal, Myanmar, Malaysia, Vietnam. 1201-1400 sp: Venezuela; China. 1401-1600 sp: Ecuador, Bolivia; Indonesia. Mongabay.com has done exactly that.

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Equatorial Guinea Costa Rica Guyana Central African Republic 219

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2013

we’re already in an open 4×4 heading for the salt pans of the Little Rann of Kutch in Gujarat, India. Continuing by the yellow sandstone Hindu temple under construction, than by the large heaps of salt (two thirds of all the salt used in India comes from here) and finally entering the Kutch Biosphere Reserve. Trips desert India'

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India Birds Eagles Boars 246

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2019

I said in my last review that it wouldn’t be long before we saw yet another New England India Pale Ale (IPA) at Birds and Booze – and here we are with one more. And as long as brewers keep slapping birds on the labels, I should be happy, right?

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Columbus Massachusetts Birds India 113

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

The first stop of the morning: young White–tailed Eagle , right next to the road and several dozen Rooks around. I observed this species in the Little Rann of Kutch in India and since then, have been burning with desire to see them back home.

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Serbia Owls Rodents Eagles 247

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 20, 2018

I observed my first GS eagles in India some 8 years ago, then the first for Europe in Greece only last December , and finally I have them in my home country list. Usually only several birds overwinter in Serbia – the biggest count ever was less than 10.

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Moldova Birds Serbia Greece 124

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

This was only my second time ever to observe this subspecies (the first time was here as well), two other subspecies I have observed in India. For a while, they followed the levee, then climbed and crossed it in front of me, only to disappear in the poplar plantation at the other side.

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Serbia Otters Boars Eagles 246

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 5, 2012

Do try and get it right) is found from the Canary Islands to India; in the Middle East it is found in oases and dry barely vegetated wadis like the one I saw them in, in the drier areas of Syria, Saudi Arabia, Yemen, Oman, UAE and Iran. Sparrows are from the family Passeridae.

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United Arab Emirates Saudi Arabia Oman Yemen 161

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 4, 2013

Therefore I have decided to right my wrong by providing first and foremost some avian eye candy, and not talk. It breeds in a broad and not quite coherent band from Iceland in the west through central Europe and southern Scandinavia all the way to eastern Russia, wintering in Africa, parts of India, and Southeast Asia to Australia.

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Germany Russia Iceland India 184

10,000 Birds

MAY 24, 2018

It was the final day of my two weeks long first passage to India. The only person I asked before the trip was one seasoned Canadian traveler who has spent some time in the subcontinent: “Do you have any advice for an absolute beginner in India?” And in the process, I fell in love with India. Let me see, when was it?

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India Stray Dog Cows Rats 152

Critter News

DECEMBER 3, 2009

From an opinion piece in the Times of India. They come from the same source right? Scientists at Eindhoven University in the Netherlands have grown in-vitro meat, using cells from a live pig to replicate growth in a petri dish. They haven't been able to actually taste the pork they've grown because of lab rules.

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Meat Factory Farm Factory Farming Netherlands 100

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

After careful scrutiny of images, it seems that the Blue Sheep lost its footing as it tried to escape but in the process it kicked up a load of gravel and dust, right into the Snow Leopard’s face, temporarily blinding the cat. Towards the centre of the image is the young Blue Sheep with the Snow Leopard right behind.

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Snow Leopard Leopards Hunting Sheep 279

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2014

One thing every guide should avoid – and it may be hard to resist, especially when it is some mega, is giving useless information like: “Right there, two weeks ago, I’ve seen an Elvis Bird.” Still, I do remember a long drop loo in one national park in central India, with an inscription: “There are no guarantees that you will see the tiger.

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Birds Botswana Free Range Leopards 233

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2019

is Outta Line, a West Coast India pale ale from Rogue Ales & Spirits of Newport, Oregon. But we’re certainly in the right family and that’s close enough for me as a celebration of my sighting. Rogue Ales & Spirits: Outta Line West Coast India Pale Ale. I’ll be back for the condor some other day – at least in drink.

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India Penguins San Diego Peru 113

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2017

I was practically right next to the two in this photo (and, note the Rufescent Tiger-heron photobomb). It was one of my most-wanted birds for Brazil, and I was overjoyed when our first morning at Posada Piuval was filled with herons, egrets, ibises, Wood Storks, and, the biggest big bird of them all, Jabirus.

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Brazil Birds Los Angeles Tigers 173

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 26, 2018

In the case of Mendocino, it seems that troubles at the top levels of management are also to blame: its majority stakeholder is on the lam in London facing extradition to India to face charges of financial fraud and money laundering.

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United States North America Abandon Abandoning 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 1, 2012

Another oft-quoted account is that of Lopo Vaz de Sampayo, governor of the Portuguese possessions in India. When he returned to Portugal in disgrace after usurping his position from the rightful governor, Sampayo supposedly took tulip bulbs with him from Sri Lanka.

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Sri Lanka Kazakhstan 2009 Portugal 219