Critter News

JULY 26, 2009

From EcoWorldly.the frozen carcass of a baby tiger was found in the trunk of a taxi cab on its way to a buyer in Hanoi. The baby tiger was between four and five months old. The baby tiger was between four and five months old.

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Critter News

AUGUST 27, 2009

Tigers are not safe anywhere. Tags: zoos wildlife crime poaching tigers indonesia. A Sumatran female at the Taman Rimbo Zoo was drugged by poachers, slaughtered and harvested for her parts. Just awful.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 9, 2010

A coordinated international law enforcement operation has led to the arrest of 25 individuals suspected of taking part in the illicit trade of tigers, one of the world's most endangered species. Tags: wildlife smuggling tigers interpol asia endangered species.

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Critter News

AUGUST 1, 2009

India is to amend its wildlife crime laws to protect the country's tigers, a government minister said. He added that the forest ministry, state governments and a separate authority on the management of tiger reserves had agreed to work together to ensure conservation of the endangered animal.

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Critter News

JANUARY 1, 2010

With only 3,200 tigers left in the wild. Tags: tigers.

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JULY 2, 2009

Things have been tough at the San Francisco Zoo after Tatiana the Siberian tiger attacked those three people in 2007. The zoo made major changes to its emergency-response procedures, including raising the wall of the tiger grotto, found to be about 4 feet shorter than what national standards recommend. It's a long list.

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Critter News

APRIL 24, 2011

This is an awful story of a tiger kept captive at a horrible truck stop in Louisiana. The Animal Legal Defense League is trying to save it. Please visit this link and respond.

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Critter News

JUNE 25, 2010

The guy was clearly trafficking in illegal parts as there were about 50 kg of bones belonging to other tigers. Tags: wildlife smuggling vietnam wildlife trafficking tigers panthers. This happened in Vietnam.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

What you might get instead, assuming the larva reaches maturity, is a lovely Isabella Tiger Moth. Isabella Tiger Moth © Steve Jurvetson a. Other factors such as age also affect the fuzz factor. A woolly bear won’t give you a clue regarding the coming cold.

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MAY 7, 2013

Three endangered Malayan tiger cubs were born at Busch Gardens Tampa Sunday, March 31. Malayan tigers are critically endangered. Malayan tigers are critically endangered. These newborn cubs will add to the genetic diversity of the Malayan tiger population and contribute to conservation efforts for the species.

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Critter News

MARCH 2, 2010

It's the Year of the Tiger on the Chinese calendar and there's plenty of talk and meetings going around. Tags: tigers china endangered species. I like this opinion piece in the Huffington Post. But what does it really mean if you and I don't engage in saving this beautiful animal?

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Critter News

MARCH 8, 2009

Tags: darwin award tigers.

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Critter News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Tags: India poaching tigers china endangered species.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2019

A tin yellow tiger is staring at us from the Melghat Tiger Reserve gates, as the narrow tarmac road winds through teak forest ( Tectona grandis ) along the hillside. From the next curve in the road, I can see the cows grazing deep in the valley: “If I was a tiger, I would check my prey from here.”

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2011

Despite being an ordinary family with the usual interests in elephants, lions, tigers and the likes (there are sadly no Banded Pittas at Heidelberg Zoo), there is one feature that has been our main attraction and focus for the last few months: the duck pond.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2013

A tin yellow tiger is staring at us from the Melghat Tiger Reserve gates, as the narrow tarmac road winds through teak forest ( Tectona grandis ) along the hillside. From the next curve in the road, I can see the cows grazing deep in the valley: “If I was a tiger, I would check my prey from here.”

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10,000 Birds

JULY 12, 2011

Especially when an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Papilio glaucous is feeding on some absolutely gorgeous flowers. That is what we did on a recent visit to the New York Botanic Gardens in the Bronx, a place where the exponential forces of natural world beauty often threaten to overwhelm the senses.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Kaziranga has one of the densest populations of Bengal Tiger in India. We would also visit Ranthambore National Park where we hope to see more wonderful wildlife, and with luck, tiger. You are certain to see Greater One-horned Rhinoceros , Water Buffalo and Hog Deer , and with a bit of luck Smooth-coated Otters.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2014

Bare-throated Tiger-Heron : Tiger-herons might not be as exotic as feathered weirdos like the Sunbittern and Sungrebe but any bird with “tiger” in its name is kind of cool. The Bare-throated Tiger-Heron has no shame. Fasciated Tiger-Heron- a lot more conservative than the Bare-throated.

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10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

Tiger Shrike. Raffle`s Malkoha. Rhinoceros Hornbill. Rufous-collared Kingfisher. Rufous-tailed Tailorbird. Rufous-winged Philentoma. Rufous Woodpecker. Scarlet-rumped Trogon. Stork-billed Kingfisher. White-rumped Shama. The post Birding Taman Negara, or the dubious joys of rainforest birding appeared first on 10,000 Birds.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 27, 2021

A wet Tiger Shrike (Nanhui, China). A very wet Japanese Night Heron (Chongming, China). A wet Black-winged Cuckooshrike (Nanhui, China). A wet Black Drongo (Nanhui, China). A wet female White-Throated Rock Thrush (Nanhui, China). A wet Japanese Paradise Flycatcher (Nanhui, China). And finally, a wet African Penguin (Cape Town, South Africa).

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10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2011

That is unfortunate because the Tiger Warbler * is one wood-warbler worth watching. The binomial Dendorica tigrina translates into Tiger Warbler which is reflected in the common name in Spanish ( Reinita Tigrina ), French ( Paruline tigrée ), German ( Tigerwaldsänger ) and other languages.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2014

I have long thought that the Cape May Warbler should have its common name changed to match its scientific name, Setophaga tigrina , because “ Tiger Warbler ” is a much cooler name. This bird, though peaceful looking, definitely was a tiger. Can you blame us?

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10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2020

A Tiger Shrike – as always – looks very stylish. Little Ringed Plovers are fiercely protective of their cute chicks. Understandably, after all the trouble of incubating the eggs. A Grey Night Jar does what it does best – being almost invisible.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Tiger Shrike. Black-winged Kite: Yes, it is a tail. And of course, there are all kinds of insects, spiders, dragonflies, caterpillars, etc. I wish I could be more precise about them, but I am not an entomologist. Brown Shrike: Shrikes that are on a diet only eat the legs. Cuckoo species (common?):

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2022

The most remarkable sighting for that journey and surely for the entire trip was a juvenile Rufescent Tiger-Heron that was stalking in some grasses next to the road. Rufescent Tiger-Heron. There was a light rain falling as we observed this bird move around unbothered.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2019

This means that when we drive across a bridge in the Caribbean foothills, we need to stop and check for key river specialist year birds like the Sunbittern , Fasciated Tiger-Heron , or American Dipper. Such stops have already yield the tiger-heron and dipper.

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AUGUST 24, 2023

A winding track through dense woodlands takes us to the Telia Lake in the southeast of the Tadoba Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra. All of a sudden, in a hushed voice he says one word only: “ Tigers! Somewhere at the far shore of the lake, lies one Bengal Tiger ( more ). There are no range maps.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Tiger Shrike. Oriental Magpie-Robin. A juvenile, with rufous wing edgings that will be gone once the bird leaves kindergarden. Reed Parrotbill: Because a post on Shanghai birds is not the same without it. As with humans, you can tell the juveniles by not being grey on the head.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2012

Researchers at Dauphin Island Sea Lab in Alabama conducting a two-year study focusing on the diets of Tiger Sharks in the Gulf of Mexico have made an alarming discovery: not only are these sharks eating the expected fish and other assorted marine organisms, but they’re also eating land-based songbirds!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2020

But this Bare-necked Tiger-Heron was a real treat for me. And the birds along the walk to the estuary weren’t bad, either: Looks like nesting time has arrived for this Golden-cheeked Woodpecker. We saw lots of the usual Heron, Egret, Cormorant, and Pelican suspects. Ditto for this handsome Amazon Kingfisher.

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

The Kathmandu Global Tiger Workshop declared 2010 to be the Year of the Tiger. The intention is to focus on saving the tiger species which is being decimated. When China won't support a ban on tiger farms, nor will it work to curb the ridiculous demand for tiger products in its own country, what's the point?

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 7, 2009

They seized tiger skins, tiger bones and otter skins. Where could those tiger bones be going but to Asian countries to make tiger bone wine? Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife crime otters India organizations poaching tigers. In India this time.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 10, 2008

Vladimir Putin, former President and current Prime Minister of Russia, just got a tiger cub for his birthday. He told journalists that Koni has not met the tiger cub. In August, Putin had occasion to pet a full-grown female Ussuri tiger after shooting her with a tranquilizer gun. Tags: tigers russia.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Mosethla Bush Camp guide awaits us by the open Land Rover and with a loaded rifle in front of the steering wheel, we continue into the bush (oddly, while observing lions and tigers in India, not a single rifle was in sight). The dirt road winds in between rocky outcrops – kopjes, by Burchell’s Zebras and Greater Kudus.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 2, 2024

We save pandas and tigers, as we should, but we don’t give as much thought to the creepy crawlies and other less-attractive creatures that also need our help. But, to us, Peregrines are the sign of nobility, agility and strength, so we never sentence them in the same way that we do the gulls.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 3, 2015

This Bare-throated Tiger-Heron at Cuero y Salado was the first I had seen in seven years. But it also has a limited range which makes seeing it more compelling. This one was in Cayos Cochinos, the small island chain off of Honduras. The bird is also the first I have seen with “Yucatan” in its name.

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