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AVMA News
SEPTEMBER 20, 2023
The American Animal Hospital Association has begun to accredit veterinary practices internationally. Daktari Animal Hospital in Tokyo became the first internationally AAHA-accredited animal hospital followed by five institutions in Japan that were accredited this summer.
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OCTOBER 10, 2019
The 125 Best Bird Watching Sites in Southeast Asia, edited by Yong Ding Li & Low Bing Wen. And now I am holding the “The 125 Best Bird Watching Sites in Southeast Asia” – an expanded and fully updated second edition of “The 100 Best Birdwatching Sites in Southeast Asia”. As a rule, I like second editions better.
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OCTOBER 22, 2020
Beside India, Lynx Illustrated Checklist of the Mammals of South Asia covers Afghanistan, Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka. Mammals of South Asia follows the latest taxonomy, describes all the species recorded within the region and provides a range map for each species. monkeys, deer, gazelles, etc.). cm Weight 0.4
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Critter News
DECEMBER 1, 2008
I recently wrote my first check to Animals Asia. They are doing very important work on animal welfare in Asia. Our Mission "The mission of the Animals Asia Foundation is to improve the lives of all animals in Asia, end cruelty and restore respect for animals Asia-wide." Tags: bears bile farming asia.
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Critter News
FEBRUARY 25, 2010
Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife trafficking asia pet trade.
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Critter News
MARCH 27, 2011
Please consider Animals Asia for your future donations. I love this organization and have supported them for a few years now. They do important work.
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OCTOBER 18, 2020
Dollarbirds left Broome earlier this year to return to Asia. They had arrived from Asia and were being chased away by Torresian Crows. It remains on the power line waiting for a mate to arrive from Asia. So much has happened in the world in their absence from Australia. It was a raucous sound of Channel-billed Cuckoos.
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MARCH 23, 2014
Timaliidae is currently thought to contain 50-odd babbler species distributed across southern and eastern Asia. Birding Asia genetics taxonomy and systematics' The Spotted Wren-Babbler had been classified with a handful of other wren-babbler species in the genus Spelaeornis , in the babbler family Timaliidae.
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SEPTEMBER 23, 2021
And, expectedly, the advice was: you should significantly lower your prices and move production to Asia. Now, that is an attitude I have to respect, just ask any former worker in car and other industries whose management went after the short-term profit and moved production to Asia, and you’ll know why.
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AUGUST 1, 2024
Weaver Birds are commonly found in sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Asia, thriving in savannas, grasslands, and open woodlands. Long-tailed T**s are widely distributed across Europe and Asia, inhabiting woodlands, gardens, and hedgerows. The Long-tailed Tit Nest ( Aegithalos caudatus ): Cozy Minimalism Photo: nottsexminer, CC BY-SA 2.0
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MAY 10, 2015
I’ll start off by naming the univerally accepted species, the House Sparrow propper Passer domesticus , the Eurasian Tree Sparrow Passer montanus and the ill-named Spanish Sparrow Passer hispaniolensis , which occurs from Spain all the way to central Asia and is rather difficult to find in the former.
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MAY 10, 2024
I’d really like to see a Coral-billed Ground Cuckoo (South-East Asia), while to see any of the Madagascan couas would be pretty cool (there’s 11 of them). There are 154 species of cuckoos in the world, and they’re all a fascinating bunch. I reckon I’ve seen around 60 or them, which still leaves a lot to go.
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FEBRUARY 25, 2021
850 illustrations by Tomasz Cofta are both accurate and stunning, and 2,400 photos by Michal Jakuj and 189 other photographers from Europe and Asia are good documentary shots. For easier comparison, confusingly similar pairs are shown on the same page, side by side. in, 156 x 235 mm Weight: 2.88
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MAY 8, 2012
Like the Adjutants in Asia and Jabiru of the Americas, the Marabou is our bare-headed scavenging stork. Only slightly shorter, but more elegantly built than the Marabou, the Saddle-billed also has a sister species in Asia, the Black-necked Stork. It is also related to Wood Stork of the Americas and Milky Stork of Asia.
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NOVEMBER 16, 2016
Due to habitat encroachment and environmental degradation in its traditional home base of Asia, the bird’s worldwide population has dropped to roughly 20,000 individuals, marking it as a Vulnerable species. The world’s biggest flying bird—the Sarus Crane , with a maximum of height of 6 feet/1.8 meters—has had a rough go of it.
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JULY 5, 2013
Photo by JJ Harrison/Wikimedia Commons. Children are cute. So are Spoon-billed Sandpipers. And when you have adorable children coloring adorable pictures of Spoon-billed Sandpipers for an animated video about saving said Sandpipers, my friends, you have officially pushed the cute meter to the limit.
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AUGUST 18, 2012
White-backed / Striated Munia Lonchura striata Munias or mannikins (but not manakins), are small, seed-eating finches from Africa, Asia and Australia. They are popular as caged birds and escapees have established a number of feral populations beyond their normal ranges.
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MAY 5, 2013
To all but the greediest rice and spirulina farmers of Southeast Asia, any member of the genus Lonchura is a joy to watch. The munias, or mannikins, or silverbills, as the genus’ members are called, are finches belonging to the Estrildidae , and the 40-odd species range from Africa throughout South and Southeast Asia to Australia.
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JUNE 28, 2015
You see, the Great (White) Heron/Egret is a polytypic species with four subspecies: alba in Europe, egretta in the Americas, melanorhynchos in Africa, and modesta in Asia and Oceania. But we’re far from done with the confusion. The data for splitting off modesta is pretty compelling, but the rest are still in limbo.
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JANUARY 1, 2012
The Rose-ringed Parakeet naturally occurs in two isolated areas: a thin strip across Africa just south of the Sahara, and south Asia where it is mostly found in India with smaller ranges in adjacent countries. We are therefore talking true evil here when we are talking about Germany’s Rose-ringed Parakeets.
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MARCH 5, 2020
This means that every year, millions of birds fly by the city on their way between their breeding grounds in Northern Asia and their wintering spots in Southeast Asia and Australia. Shanghai is located on the coast of the East China Sea and lies right on the East Asian–Australasian Flyway.
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MARCH 3, 2016
Asia: Indeed, some 150 meters away, four males of the Great Indian Bustard are semi-displaying – more than one per cent of the surviving population! Asia: We wait on the top of the hillock crossed by a barbed wire fence and topped by a scarecrow. 10000birds.com/rock-partridges-and-hollywood-mandolins.htm. The Sun is just rising.
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AUGUST 29, 2013
The series, which was four years in the making, follows birds across six continents, from eagles in North America to hummingbirds in South America, cockatoos in Australia, cranes in Asia, and flamingos in Africa. And many more!). The sixth episode of the series provides a behind-the-scenes look at how the filmmakers got the shots.
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JANUARY 25, 2015
The distribution of Old World buntings (and the presence of longspurs and Snow Buntings in the Palearctic) is explained by colonization back across Beringia into Asia. An early pioneer, however, made it to South America early on and founded the tanager lineage, which has gone on to diversify into nearly 400 species.
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NOVEMBER 27, 2022
There are Little Terns that breed across the north of Australia, Little Terns that breed on the coast of eastern and south-eastern Australia and another population that visit at this time of year from Asia. The population of Little Tern that visit from Asia breed in Asia and visit Australia in their non-breeding months.
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FEBRUARY 2, 2012
I get my own idea of the lunacy of Gooddie’s quest when I talk to a friend who has birded Asia and Africa. Beer looms large in Gooddie’s daily routine, and much text is devoted to finding beer in the middle of rural Asia and evaluating its quality. I’m reading a book about a man who is doing a Pitta Big Year,” I say. And leeches.
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JULY 31, 2012
Eurasian Wrynecks are found breeding across the temperate zones of Europe and Asia. They migrate to warmer climes in Africa and south Asia to winter. Until a month ago I had never seen the Eurasian Wryneck either, but the trip to Hungary took care of that gap on the life list easily.
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FEBRUARY 23, 2014
I don’t want my Best Bird of the Weekend to be Red-breasted Merganser while I’m in Asia. Unfortunately for me, that special species spotted in the bay separating Hong Kong from China was Red-breasted Merganser. I can spot that bird perfectly well at home! I can’t say the same for Gray Treepie , so let’s go with that.
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JUNE 4, 2013
I’ll also take any bird that has wren in the name, like Fairy Wrens of Australia and Wren Babblers of Asia. You’ve got till the end of the night to get me your wren posts and photos for the next I and the Bird! Send them to naswick AT gmail.com and put IATB in the subject line.
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MAY 21, 2014
It’s perhaps an easy one for many people to overlook, since they don’t occur in Europe or the Americas, but visit a patch of forerst or bush in Asia or Africa and there should be one or two species around.
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MAY 24, 2020
Trogons and quetzals are an ancient, colorful bird family that occurs in forests and other wooded habitats from the American tropics to Africa to Southeast Asia. Elegant Trogon by Homer Gardin.
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JANUARY 9, 2013
The Brown-headed Gull is a bird of Asia, breeding from Turkmenistan to Mongolia, and winters along the coasts of Asia. This gull is closely related to, and necessary to separate from, the Black-headed Gull , a bird familiar to any birder from Europe (or even just anyone from Europe!). Notice the white iris.
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MAY 29, 2013
Admittedly, This next I and the Bird doesn’t offer a ton for our friends in Europe and Asia and I apologize for that, but it’s hard to ignore those wonderful little Troglodytes. Wait, that sounds odd. In any case, the next I and the Bird is going to be all about Wrens.
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SEPTEMBER 17, 2020
Black-bellied Plover: Known as Grey Plover in Europe and Asia. As this is a coastal place, there are of course lots of waders, in larger numbers, and more variety than in Shanghai. Point for American birders, I am afraid. Eurasian Oystercatcher: Not all of them are breeding at Claire`s beach in Australia. Far Eastern Curlew: Endangered.
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MARCH 18, 2012
They breed in the arid inland areas in Mongolia and northern China and then migrate south into coastal parts of south-east Asia and northern Australia. Oriental Plovers stand very upright and look very brown compared to the usual grey of shorebirds and tend to be rather more vocal in flight.
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JUNE 22, 2011
After all, Hooded Crows are a bird of eastern and northern Europe, Central Asia, and the Middle East and are not known as long distance migrants. It had to be an escaped bird or at least one that didn’t make it to the southernmost borough in New York City under its own power but by riding a boat.*
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AUGUST 14, 2012
The wonderful family Meropidae contains 27 dazzling species, of which Africa is endowed with no less than 20 species, the balance occurring across Asia and with one as far afield as Australia. Numerous subspecies exist within this long range, and birds vary from a light green coloration to an off blue.
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JULY 18, 2012
Its natural range in Europe was restricted the the surroundings of the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, and in Asia it ranged from Asia Minor to central China. Mute Swans are large, white, and decorative, and as such their natural range has been significantly altered by humans who generally enjoy having them around.
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MARCH 18, 2021
A typical description of the family is that of “a tropical African and Asian songbird that typically has a melodious voice and drab plumage”, another is “small, dull-colored passerine birds of Asia and Africa”, yet another states that they are “often rather plain” Individual species get even harsher reviews.
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APRIL 25, 2019
Not surprisingly, ten of these 19 countries are in the Americas, but what does surprise me, there are just 4 in Africa and just 1 in Asia (2 if you count Indonesia). With 400 endemics, Indonesia tops the list of the world’s most wanted lister’s destination, but the only destination in Asia proper is India.
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JUNE 15, 2016
The species, which migrates from the Russian Arctic to Southeast Asia, is down to about 200 breeding pairs in the wild, due to habitat loss and poaching. First, wildlife officials in Louisiana announced the first successful wild Whooping Crane nest in that state since 1939. Now, it’s Spoon-billed Sandpipers’ turn.
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APRIL 30, 2020
Winter is not the greatest time for birding in Shanghai, and this year, there was no escaping to Southeast Asia due to Covid-19. In fact, if I were to leave China right now, they would not let me back into the country. So, the onset of spring here in Shanghai, particularly at my local spot at Nanhui, was even more highly expected than usual.
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