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.

Burma 245

Burma India Birds Indonesia 245

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

With a picture of the then-queen of Thailand on it, if I remember correctly. Tiphys died either of a snakebite or of a mysterious illness but he was not killed by either a tiger or a rhinoceros. I guess he should have stuck with the substantially less dangerous trogons. Lucky him, right? Though he ended up dead anyway.

Birds 246

Birds Eagles Elephants Rhinoceros 246

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2014

I mean, how do you pick between a handful of broadbills, Rhinoceros Hornbills , two pittas, a falconet and the Whiskered Treeswift ? But the news isn’t entirely gloomy, as numbers of Asian Openbill Storks have recovered in Thailand after crashing. I was Borneo-bound. Greater Adjutants are even rarer.

2013 208

2013 Birds Rhinoceros Thailand 208

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

At the time of writing, Thailand has 18 hotspots over 300 species, and I will focus on the #1, the Doi Inthanon National Park in the north, among the easternmost slopes of the Himalayan range. Indian Rhinoceros in Kaziranga, photo Anuwar Hazarika/Wikimedia Commons. Other wildlife includes Asian Elephant , Tiger , Leopard.

Asia 279

Asia Malaysia Papua New Guinea Thailand 279

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2014

In many ways that seems to be the pattern, as the major holiday breaks for New Zealand are over December and January; the year before I started in tropical Queensland and ended in Thailand and the UK. Rhinoceros Hornbill ( Buceros rhinoceros ); Danum Valley, Borneo, 1 January. CORACIIDAE (ROLLERS). Bucerotidae (Hornbills).

2014 150

2014 New Zealand Singapore Rhinoceros 150