Huge Numbers of Shark Fins Harvested in Taiwan
Critter News
JUNE 20, 2011
A local group claims Taiwan kills up to 3.86 taiwan shark fins sharkmillion sharks each year for their fins.
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A Grey-tailed Tattler flagged In Taiwan returns annually
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 24, 2016
You may remember my recent posts where we discovered a Little Tern that had been flagged in Taiwan on Cable Beach. I immediately contacted the banders in Taiwan and they confirmed that it was one of their birds and it had received its metal band and flags on 4th August 2012 at Kinmen Island in Taiwan and had not been observed since! The other interesting fact is that it has never been observed back in Taiwan and it has never been observed anywhere else in the Flyway.
Ligers in China
Critter News
AUGUST 17, 2010
A private zoo operator in Taiwan cross-bred lions and tigers, resulting in three "liger" cubs. From Focus Taiwan. The Environmental and Animal Society of Taiwan (EAST) said Huang, who possesses an array of wildlife, should be dealt with harshly to deter others from copying the behavior. Tags: zoos taiwan tigers lion endangered species One died and the other two were seized for sheltering at a research institution.
Moon Bears Rescued from Bile Farm in Vietnam
Critter News
JANUARY 26, 2010
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A Little Tern flagged in Taiwan visits Australia
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 20, 2015
This indicated that the Little Tern had been captured in Taiwan. Little Tern “M1” from Taiwan with Greater Sand Plovers. We have observed an individually marked Grey-tailed Tattler from Taiwan each year in the non-breeding part of their year since late 2012 and it is especially nice to see its safe return to Broome each year. Little Tern “M1” from Taiwan with Greater Sand Plovers.
Little Terns breeding near Broome
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 27, 2022
On one occasion we were able to identify an individual Little Tern that had arrived in Broome from Taiwan at this time of year. In Australia there are three populations of Little Tern.
Black-faced Spoonbill
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 3, 2015
In Taiwan, two major sanctuaries have been allocated as part of the spoonbill recovery program. In Taiwan, where around 60% of the birds spend the winter, they are reliant on the Large-scaled Mullet, but this small fish is also endangered so much of the conservation effort is directed at preserving the spoonbills’ food supply. It has a number of favoured wintering sites of which Taiwan is the most popular, harbouring around 60% of the world’s population.
Birding Shanghai in December 2022
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 26, 2022
Apparently, this is part of a broader trend – it has also been observed in Taiwan ( source ). This year, it seems I wrote one post on birding in Shanghai each month – and I am still not even sure anyone is interested in these. Maybe the topic is too bureaucratic or irrelevant?
Canada’s Naughtiest Dog contest
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JULY 13, 2009
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An Agile Wallaby amongst the shorebirds
10,000 Birds
APRIL 24, 2011
It was rather nice to get a report about 10 days later of one of those Great Knot feeding on a mudflat in Taiwan! It is not uncommon to see Agile Wallabies Macropus agilis around the Broome area and everyone avoids driving on dusk or dawn as much as possible when they are most active. We often see their footprints on the beaches around Roebuck Bay and we have on occasion seen them close to the sea. The male Agile Wallaby weighs in at about 27 kg and the female at about 15 kg.
Mexican Warblers
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 3, 2011
I have taken refuge on the high ground as Irene batters the east coast of North America and Nanmadol swamps the Philipines, Taiwan and east China, but my thoughts and best wishes are with anyone who has been affected by the storms. If Mexico City itself was not high enough, the mountains to the south rise above 12,300 feet and I was there looking for a Sierra Madre Sparrow to confirm a sighting of this rare and local sparrow from 15 years ago.
Liberal or literal?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 17, 2016
The Collared Finchbill is found quite commonly in Taiwan, N Indochina and S China, but being present in Beijing would extend its range by over 450 miles to the north and eBird were keen to get some additional details when I tried to submit the sighting. This week brings the quandary of whether suspect provenance should disqualify a bird from my life-list.
Birding Shanghai in September 2022
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 3, 2022
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).
A Terek Sandpiper flagged in Japan visits Australia
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 27, 2015
I had only just written about the observation of a Little Tern flagged in Taiwan last week when another flagged bird from overseas placed itself in our path! The Little Tern was also blue and white flags, but it was a white flag above a blue flag on the left tarsus and that indicates it has been flagged in Taiwan. This time we were walking the beach near the port in Broome where we regularly encounter large flocks of shorebirds at this time of year.
The Siberian Rubythroat
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 24, 2022
Birds breeding in mainland East Russia migrate through mainland China and spend the winter in South-East Asia, while birds ringed in Japan and easternmost Russia were mainly found wintering in Taiwan and the Philippines ( source ).
Reddell Beach shorebirds
10,000 Birds
APRIL 3, 2016
In fact we are still observing our Grey-tailed Tattler that was flagged in Taiwan on 4th August 2012 and returns to Broome each year in the non-breeding season! Reddell Beach or Riddell Beach, depending on your source of information is a very picturesque beach in Broome between the port of Broome and Gantheaume Point. It varies from Cable Beach , because rather than white sand and white sand dunes it offers pindan red cliffs and the dirt does stain!
Three Amazing Things
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 19, 2013
A throat swab sent to the Taiwan Centres For Disease Control helped scientists identify H6N1, a subtype of avian flu that has been spreading in chickens. Migration Shift Cause Better Understood. Birds have been migrating earlier. The mechanism by which this is happening in at least some species of birds is very interesting. If you know a lot about birds, this might be entirely expected. I’d love to know if you think this is surprising. First, climate change is the ultimate cause.
Greater Sand Plover with abnormal colouration
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 19, 2017
A fine example of site faithfulness in shorebirds can be shown by the Grey-tailed Tattler “35” that was flagged in Taiwan in August 2012 and has returned to our local beach during the non-breeding season for five years now. Over the years that we have birded we have observed some variation in the plumage of birds including a Crimson Finch that wasn’t crimson, but orange.
Back to the beach!
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 16, 2014
I have observed a Greater Sand Plover carrying flags from Taiwan and a Red-necked Stint marked in the Bohai region of China and they have flown a long way to be with me on a beach in Broome. It is good to be home! There have been a lot of good birds seen in the Northern Territory over the past few weeks , but this is home. It is good to go down the beach and have it all to yourself apart from a lot of shorebirds this time of year!
The wonders of migration
10,000 Birds
MARCH 30, 2014
In Taiwan there are also migratory shorebirds passing through and they also upload photographs of individually marked birds on their website and detail the history of the birds. The time has come… sadly we are losing huge numbers of migratory shorebirds as they head off on their journey north. It is a sad and a happy time for us all here as they head off to the northern hemisphere.
Shorebirds of Roebuck Bay
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 20, 2011
We have seen most of the individually marked birds that have been seen in Taiwan, Hong Kong and China this year back in Broome, so that is encouraging to both us and the overseas observer. We have spent most of our time recently with the shorebirds of Roebuck Bay. They have returned from the north, though more are returning and there is very little knowledge on their arrival back in the Bay.
Birding Napo, Guangxi, China – part 2
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 19, 2023
On the third day in Napo, the local driving me to a bird hide was coughing a lot. And I was the only guest in an otherwise deserted hotel (shutdown due to lack of staff, with everybody having caught covid). Still, I was healthy.
Comebackers
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 9, 2014
They bred on a number of islands near Japan and Taiwan, and ranged widely and abundantly from the Aleutian Islands south through California. If you ask this Great Ornithologist, extinction is an extremely depressing issue. For mankind to snatch away a species’ very existence is wrong on so many levels that I can’t begin to explain them. It is the ultimate expression of ignorance, greed, and rampant anthropocentrism that seemingly drives cultures around the world.
Tropical Cyclone Iggy
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 29, 2012
The rest of the birds had been marked locally, but we still took down the details as the next time they are observed may well be in Taiwan, China or Korea. We have had a wet week in Broome with a tropical low to our north and further down the coast there is a cyclone. This cyclone has been named Cyclone Iggy and is a dominant circle on our satellite image of Western Australia.
Red-necked Stint with a Japanese flag
10,000 Birds
MARCH 9, 2014
I also have a Grey-tailed Tattler that visits us and was marked with a plain white and an engraved blue flag “35″ in Taiwan in August 2012. At this time of year in Broome there are thousands of migratory shorebirds along the shores of Roebuck Bay and in the township itself and along Cable Beach. They have been here for several months and are currently changing into their breeding plumage and fattening up.
Gantheaume Point shorebirds
10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2016
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. Last week I introduced you to the magnificent sight of thousands of shorebirds roosting on Reddell Beach at high tide at this time of year before they head north on migration. In Broome our lives evolve around the tides when considering any coastal activity, because our tides are some of the largest in the southern hemisphere.
Birding Shanghai in November 2022
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 8, 2022
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 ).
Autumn colours
10,000 Birds
MARCH 20, 2011
I am currently busy entering data on a voluntary basis for about 3500 shorebirds, so everything is up to date when I get reports of these birds in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea in future weeks.
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