10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2024

Below is a quotation directly from this paper by the Monitor Conservation Research Society: “Trade data from the range countries of Thailand and Vietnam and from Indonesia and USA, both non-range countries, revealed 10,841 Black-throated Laughingthrushes in trade, across 762 visits to 51 markets between 1966 and 2019.

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Burma India Birds Indonesia 189

10,000 Birds

APRIL 3, 2023

And here is the Collared Finchbill , who like me suffers from being less social than others. One paper describes them living in the cemeteries of Yogyakarta in Indonesia. Which limits both its and my range expansion (though in my case, not having kids is an important additional factor).

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Birds Blackbirds Indonesia Bhutan 186

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 1, 2013

Still I struggled and I suffered in the heat and humidity of a survey’s day on Java this past April, and I thought of the times in my 20′s when I hiked the Namibian deserts as if it was the easiest thing to do. Birds Indonesia nightjars' Legs: The Expendables 2. Legs: The Expendables 3. Who knew, or could have known!?

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Goats Indonesia Science Experience 186

10,000 Birds

JUNE 12, 2023

Strangely, the Oriental Dollarbird seems to suffer a bit from an image problem. Apparently, in many regions of Indonesia, songbird contests are frequently held. The paper examines the bird species involved in these bird singing contests.

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Malaysia Indonesia Lifestyle Japan 130

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

In a review of Gorman’s book on woodpeckers, the reviewer (Koenig) suggests a woodpecker big year, as he reasons that the chance to encounter a wave of Buff-rumped Woodpeckers in his (presumably North American) backyard is very slim … Not only humans suffer from Harry Potter books.

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Los Angeles Birds Woodpeckers Owls 176

10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2012

I suffered, I lost birding time, and I made the most stupid mistakes imaginable. I was seeing all sorts of small to very small songbirds with yellow bellies and a greenish back in the dense foliage of Indonesia’s trees. “In failure lies opportunity”, and luckily I noticed this while still being in Indonesia.

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Indonesia Family Asia Species 229

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 22, 2013

Destinations Indonesia' Reading other birder’s travel reports afterwards was quite a shock, and in November 2013 I came back with a vengeance and the knowledge of its calls, leading to multiple encounters. End of part 1.

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Suffering Birds Indonesia 2013 158