Critter News
MARCH 31, 2009
But the grand tradition continues in Iraq and Afghanistan. If humans insist on wars and invasions, we should keep them to ourselves and leave other species out of it. Tags: afghanistan military military force iraq dogs. I don't like it. Even better if we didn't insist on such activities in the first place.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2014
The official definition of CR status says the species could be gone within ten years, or could lose 80 per cent of its population within three generations – whichever comes first. Sociable Lapwings breed in several areas along the Kazakhstani – Russian border and overwinter in Iraq, Sudan and northwest India. Gujarat, December 2010.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
So, here we go… Fighting in Iraq has been affecting starlings. If this was America, we might not be concerned because starlings are an invasive species, at least in North America.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 14, 2013
Part of its attraction lies in it being a monotypic bird in the family Hypocoliidae – there are no other bird species in its genus and family. The other part of its attractiveness may be coming from the fact that it breeds in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan – countries seldom visited by foreign birders.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 19, 2013
It wasn’t that long ago that Sociable Lapwing was considered a critically endangered species with a population of only around 1500. They nest on the vast central plains of Asia and winter in inhospitable places like Iraq and Pakistan, and rarely visited places like the White Desert of Kutch in Gujarat.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2014
Additional back of the book material includes a Glossary, Biographical Details, a Select Bibliography, Notes, Credits, an Index to Species and a General Index. Cocker writes about the species within each family with a literary specificity softened by a tone of conversational patience. Eagles are national symbols of the U.S.,
Animal Person
NOVEMBER 21, 2010
It has entertaining stories, includes animals people care about because they like them (and also addresses that concept), and it describes how the numbers of various species decreased to the point of being classified as "endangered" or worse. Consider this: Every month, it takes $12 billion to fund America's involvement in the Iraq War.
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