Huge Numbers of Shark Fins Harvested in Taiwan
Critter News
JUNE 20, 2011
A local group claims Taiwan kills up to 3.86 million sharks each year for their fins.
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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 2)
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
I agree with eBird that the Asian Glossy Starling is “fierce-looking” Appropriately, it is an invasive species in places such as Taiwan, where some papers recommend reducing the population. The dangers of being a geologist.
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Gantheaume Point shorebirds
10,000 Birds
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We have seen Peregrine Falcons fly through circling flocks of shorebirds and Brown Goshawks attempt a kill, but generally they are able to escape by their constant circling. The shorebirds need to consume as much as they can before they set off north with their next stop likely to be several days later in Taiwan or China.
Birding Shanghai in September 2022
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The bird “spent five months on Mindoro Island in the Philippines during the non-breeding season and migrated through Taiwan, the Chinese east coast, and the Korean peninsula” and on to the Russian Far East (indicating a certain lack of solidarity with Ukraine). This is the dark blue adult male (also shown on top of this post).
Birding Shanghai in November 2022
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A study found that for Plain Prinia , egg characteristics in a mainland China location with many cuckoos make it much easier to spot cuckoo eggs than in a Taiwan location with few cuckoos ( source ). For those who think evolution is a wrong theory, these differences may well have been created by god.
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