10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2023

They are described as “larger and more powerful than the Common Blackbird of Europe” – I can imagine some Chinese nationalists rejoicing that “my blackbird can beat your blackbird” … According to Wikipedia, the distribution of the Red-billed Leiothrix stretches over India, Bhutan, Nepal, Burma, and parts of Tibet.

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Birds Blackbirds Indonesia Bhutan 186

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 21, 2014

He suffered from the lack of experience as a traveler and someone who has hired guides himself. 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. But that is the fun of it.”. What are your experiences with and advices to bird guides?

Birds 203

Birds Botswana Free Range Leopards 203

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 2, 2015

“It is next to impossible to persuade people in India to donate money for injured raptors,” says Nadeem Shehzad, co-founder of Wildlife Rescue , a registered non-profit in the Chawri Bazar area of Old Delhi. Birds Black Kites India Bird Rescue India raptors Mohammad Saud Nadeem Shehzad wildlife rehabilitators Wildlife Rescue'

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Wildlife Rehabilitation India Rescue Wounded 260

Animal Person

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

and a middle-aged man who lives in New Orleans and lost everything in Hurricane Katrina, and who works/worked for Shell Oil, and an entrepreneur in India who started a low-cost airline for the people of his country (and we see none other than a Shell Oil truck delivering its fuel). A young woman in Nigeria (can you say Shell Oil?)

Nigeria 100

Nigeria Vegan Neglecting Vegetarian 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Magical“ is one of those words that suffer from overuse and I usually avoid it – but in this case, I cannot think of a better description. His answer was, this site is already dry, that one may not be too bad, but the Kerkini is always good. A „ magical place “, he calls it in that chapter of his book. I brake for raptors – anytime, anywhere!

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Greece Pelicans Serbia Eagles 181

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

It describes how, when a veterinary drug used in India killed the vast majority of Indian vultures, the human death rate in affected locations increased by about 4% as the vultures were no longer around to feed on animal carcasses and the sanitation thus worsened substantially.

Los Angeles 176

Los Angeles Birds Woodpeckers Owls 176

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 7, 2013

The family also reaches into India and as far east as samoa and Fiji. This has been benefitial for the species, which suffered considerable losses after the snow storm two years ago but quickly rebounded.

New Zealand 173

New Zealand Samoa Fiji Killing 173

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. It only takes a little imagination to suppose that every bite of hamburger we eat is taking grain away from a hungry child in India.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Meat Cattle 40

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2024

Atherton (1797-1827), a naturalist (whatever that means exactly) and a member of the British Army in India. The Spot-breasted Parrotbill suffers a bit from having a contradicting scientific species name, guttaticolis , meaning “spot-throated” or “spot-necked” rather than spot-breasted.

Squirrels 136

Squirrels Birds China Bears 136

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 7, 2019

The Management are still in Africa, suffering the buffering that comes with remoteness. They ranged across 10 countries (Costa Rica, USA, UK, India, Australia, China, Brazil, Mexico, Serbia and Uganda). Their Ugandan contribution reached 258 before contact was lost. Ticks for November numbered 973 from 120 lists shared by 11 beats.

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2019 Farming Sparrows Charlotte 137