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Mammals of South Asia (Lynx Edicions)

10,000 Birds

Beside India, Lynx Illustrated Checklist of the Mammals of South Asia covers Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Mammals of South Asia (Paperback) Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka Pages 173 Dimensions 14 × 22.8 I clearly needed a mammal book. Highly recommended.

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My Favorite 5 Bird Nests: Redefining Home Construction

10,000 Birds

These nests are small, oval-shaped structures, about the size of a grapefruit, and are made from moss, lichen, and feathers, all carefully woven together with spider silk and animal hair. Baya Weavers are commonly found in South and Southeast Asia, particularly in India, Nepal, and Thailand. It’s the original tiny house movement !

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Sobering Tiger Statistics

Critter News

Reduced to Skin and Bones (PDF, 4 MB) shows that from January 2000 to April 2010, parts of between 1,069 and 1,220 Tigers were seized in 11 of the 13 tiger range countries—or an average of 104 to 119 animals per year.

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Interpol Makes Arrests in Tiger Smuggling

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The two-month operation involved national enforcement agencies in six tiger-range countries (China, India, Nepal, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam) and was coordinated by INTERPOL's Environmental Crime Program at its headquarters in Lyon, France.

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2024 in photos: 10 moments that shaped history for animals

Animal Equality

Across these eight countries, Animal Equality’s advocacy brought the world closer to compassion last year. These images are here to tell the story: At Nepal’s 2024 Gadhimai Festival—the world’s largest animal sacrifice—investigators revealed what walls, smog, and police bans tried to hide.

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Birding Longcanggou, Sichuan again (but maybe for the last time)

10,000 Birds

In what seems like a fairly pointless study to me, Little Forktails in Nepal were found to forage around mid-river rocks 55% of the time, marginal rocks 29% of the time, and at other locations 16% of the time (source: HBW). As we all know, among the animal classes, mammals are the ones responsible for the largest number of wars.

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Birding Shanghai in March 2023

10,000 Birds

They are described as “larger and more powerful than the Common Blackbird of Europe” – I can imagine some Chinese nationalists rejoicing that “my blackbird can beat your blackbird” … According to Wikipedia, the distribution of the Red-billed Leiothrix stretches over India, Bhutan, Nepal, Burma, and parts of Tibet.