10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 11, 2012

Originally a hunting term, the Big Five were the most dangerous and prized targets of the great white hunters on safari. However it is now one of the world’s rarest animals after decades of relentless hunting and poaching. In Asia they are even commonly kept as pets!

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Buffalo Rhinoceros Leopards Elephants 199

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2013

The survival of songbirds depends in part upon eliminating illegal hunting. If you are a migratory bird in Europe and western Asia, this is your sweet spot. That means passing over the Mediterranean Sea and the Middle East, where you’re liable to get shot, trapped, or otherwise hunted.

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Cambodia Slaughter Slaughtered Cyprus 143

10,000 Birds

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. Within its European range, it was heavily hunted until the late 19th century, and the Mute Swan was subsequently a very rare bird to encounter in the wild.

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Feral Europe Asia North America 169

10,000 Birds

JUNE 23, 2022

The Latin name “ chinensis ” is somewhat misleading as is much more common in Southeast Asia than in China – apparently, it was chosen in the mistaken belief that the type specimen had come from China. ” The Common Green Magpie fortunately does not look common at all. A worrying trend.

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Myanmar Birds China Chicago 147

10,000 Birds

APRIL 22, 2021

The main conservation issues are habitat loss, hunting and wildlife trade. Eaton, is a co-founder and guide for Birdtour Asia, has been leading and pioneering birdwatching tours throughout the region since 2005. The first author, James A.

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Indonesia Timor Brunei Guinea 264

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2015

For both forms, their little patches within the WP are but outlying exclaves of a much wider range elsewhere in Africa and Asia, respectively. This may not sound like much, but it is really good compared to just a few decades ago, when hunting had significantly reduced its range and overall population.

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Spain Hunters Africa Hunting 157

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2015

They are threatened by hunting for traditional medicine, veterinary drugs, and poachers who poison them to conceal their poaching activities. Fortunately, after what happened in Asia conservation groups are alert to the risks and are working to protect them before things get dire.

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Africa Ethiopia Feral Tanzania 174

10,000 Birds

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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Africa Tanzania South Africa Uganda 237

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2011

When skimmers are hunting even the most jaded birder has to watch them and the vast majority of the time a smile will be on that birder’s face. flavirostris and South Asia has R. A bird such as Rynchops niger is a testament to the marvels of evolution. Africa has the African Skimmer R. albicollis , the Indian Skimmer.

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Niger New York Asia Fish 176

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2014

The prinias are a group of around 25 Old World warbler species found in Africa and Asia. On the contrary, it may very well be one of the most dangerous bird species in Asia, if not the world. However, they are indistinct within the Old World’s brown warblers in that their plumage consists entirely of different shades of brown.

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Burma Laos Cambodia Indonesia 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2022

This is partly due to hunting in China, where about 90% of the species winter (HBW). And it does not even live in reeds. Sadly, the numbers of Falcated Duck are similarly declining – it is thus listed as Near Threatened. A Yellow-throated Bunting enjoying a sunny morning in the reedbeds of Nanhui.

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Raccoons Birds Oregon China 210

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2012

Leading scientists, conservationists and aviculturalists from Europe and South-east Asia met at Walsrode in Germany recently to formulate a rescue plan. Concern for the future of this species is such that the WPA and BirdLife International-Vietnam Programme are working together to organize immediate action.

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Vietnam 2000 Germany Asia 154

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2013

” The Wels Catfish, Silurus glanis , is the second largest fish in its range, which covers much of Europe and parts of West Asia. Now and then individual catfish of various species hunt nearer the surface and larger catfish such as the American Channel Cat will take a duck or other water bird. Cucherousset, J., Boulêtreau, S.,

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Fish Whaling Whales France 201

10,000 Birds

JULY 23, 2014

A housecat in Buenos Aires got its start in Africa, a sheep in Australia to the Middle East, a chicken in Ireland can trace its origin to the jungles of Asia. Secondly, New Zealand had already experienced on wave of extinction due to the introduction or rats and human hunting. First of all they wanted useful species.

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New Zealand Possums Rabbits Ferrets 161

10,000 Birds

JULY 20, 2014

European Red Foxes were brought into Australia in the 1850′s for recreational hunting and soon spread rapidly. We have seen them on remote beaches hunting shorebirds and taking their eggs and they have been responsible for much of the egg loss in breeding Pied Oystercatchers along the Broome coast. Rock Doves in Broome.

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Australia Species Feral Cats Feral 157

10,000 Birds

JULY 25, 2013

Shimmering in the distance, Nilgais , the biggest antelopes of Asia, walk by. Hunting and disturbance, deterioration, fragmentation and destruction of habitat were the forces behind the decline of this, once widespread species, making it Critically Endangered on the IUCN Global Red List. The main tactic is diversion.

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India Gazelles Pakistan Endangered Species 239

10,000 Birds

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. After breeding they also disperse over the rainforests and savannas of West and Central Africa, where they hunt for aerial insects.

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Africa Gabon Uganda South Africa 263

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Kinabalu (at 13,455 feet the highest peak in southeast Asia), and human development that has resulted in freshwater rice fields, secondary forest, and oil palm plantations, this means that Borneo offers an incredibly high degree of biodiversity. Borneo, the authors say, is under-birded. I think we need to do something about that.

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Brunei Asia Birds China 174

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 7, 2017

The four authors, themselves field ornithologists, conservationists, birders, and writers with years of experience in southeast Asia, researched scientific studies ranging from early 19th-century descriptions of the birds of Java to the latest phylogenomic studies. The maps on the inside front and back covers help a lot.

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Indonesia Brunei Malaysia Papua New Guinea 124

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2013

They can be exceptionally rare, with some Asian and African species at high risk of extinction due to the twin scourges of habitat loss and hunting pressure including the gorgeous Crested Ibis of Japan and the impressive Giant Ibis if southeast Asia, or exceedingly common as in the case of the White Ibis if the southeastern North America which is as (..)

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North America Charlotte Birds Miami 209

10,000 Birds

MAY 8, 2013

As impressive as these birds are, many species, particularly in southern Asia , have seen precipitous population declines having to do somewhat with the old habitat issues that plague animals around the world , but more to do with the widespread use of anti-inflammatory drugs on cattle, who then die and are eaten by vultures who are poisoned.

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California Condor Turkey North America Jordan 179

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 10, 2012

They are also believed to be related to the Rail-Babbler of Tropical Asia. Now that the colony is off limits for hunting, the population has grown and the village is benefitting tremendously from entry and guide fees, and a school is being built courtesy of conservation funds.

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Sierra Leone Ghana Equatorial Guinea Cameroon 266

10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2014

That was a wild cat, a wild Wildcat, the cat that lives in the wild because that is where it is from and where it belongs, at the southern end of its pan-African range that extended at one time well into Europe and Asia. Read what you want about the origin of domestic cats; the genetic evidence is not properly sampled.

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Feral Cats North America Feral Cats 254

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 20, 2012

There are a lot of other large Galliforme birds around the world, and before the Spanish were busy conquering the New World, one of these, from Central Asia most likely, was already being imported as a food product and as live birds into Europe. They may have also had hunting dogs with them as well. This is where they got their name.

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Turkey Columbus Spain Fowl 200

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Oriental Pied Hornbills are common enough and probably the most likely hornbill to be seen in many parts of SE Asia, but seeing them at such close quarters and seemingly so relaxed is unusual. Oriental Pied Hornbills by Redgannet. Though Clare K. no longer regularly blogs here on 10,000 Birds he shared his Best Bird of the Year anyway!

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2013 Costa Rica Birds India 167

10,000 Birds

JUNE 24, 2024

Surprisingly, the chance of a nest being robbed is greater in the forest interior than close to the road, as three of the four predator species listed above (all except the magpie) prefer hunting there. Spiderhunters : As their name suggests, they specialize in hunting spiders and other small invertebrates, although they also consume nectar.

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Vietnam Birds Woodpeckers Bangladesh 211

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2023

The Bar-backed Partridge is a species of partridge found in southwestern China and Southeast Asia. The Bar-backed Partridge was also one of four focal species in an investigation into illegal bird hunting in Southwestern China. Unsurprisingly, it is. If I can give you some advice: Better not be a bird in China.

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China Hunting Birds illegal 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 6, 2021

Nordmann’s Greenshank photographed hunting on the Cairns Esplanade [Ken Cross]. In south east Asia, the birds are tied to the estuarine habitat and are recognised as crab specialists. The bird had been found standing calmly on the muddy esplanade of the northern city of Cairns by Adrian Walsh who, just as calmly, sounded the alarm.

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Australia 2019 Thailand Russia 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2021

I guess ornithologists prefer to do their research there rather than in Asia, where it is native and much more common … Crested Goshawks can be seen hunting, following the advice in their instruction manual: “Prey typically captured after short, rapid attack launched from concealed perch, usually inside forest” (HBW).

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China Hawaii Asia Hunting 160

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 16, 2018

Usually when we observe Peregrine Falcons they are hunting shorebirds around the Broome coastline and you don’t always get a chance to see all of their characteristics. The subspecies of Peregrine Falcon that we believe to be visiting Broome would normally breed in the Eurasian Arctic and migrate to South Asia and Africa.

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Falcons Australia Investigation Asia 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Image by Adam Riley A Cattle Egret hunts grasshoppers and other insects in a field of wildflowers in West Coast National Park. It is common in the Fynbos and succulent Karoo regions. Image by Adam Riley Another common members of this region’s avifauna is the cute Cape Bunting.

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South Africa Africa New Zealand Asia 228

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2012

Bang Pra is a reservoir and no-hunting area to the south east of Bangkok. I must confess I didn’t fully appreciate it at the time, as the related Australian White Ibis is something of a trash bird in Sydney, but this species is extremely rare in Thailand or for that matter South East Asia.

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Thailand New Zealand Terrapins Asia 153

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2014

Later, Harry Fuller, President of the Klamath Bird Observatory, led us to an open meadow where we saw a pair of Great Gray Owls hunting in a meadow. Seeing more that 640 species throughout North America, South America, and Asia revealed many special species, but cotingas are often first among equals in discussions like these.

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2014 Costa Rica South Africa Penguins 186

10,000 Birds

MARCH 14, 2012

Graceful Honeyeater ( Meliphaga gracilis ) Metallic Starling colony ( Aplonis metallica ) I got my Platypus just before dark; it was much smaller than I expected but utterly enthralling as it hunted along the river bank. Their name comes from their odd catlike call, but they more closely resemble one of the larger green barbets of Asia.

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Possums Guinea Marsupials Rats 171

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 18, 2012

The grassy areas were also patrolled by Laughing Kookaburras , which engaged in the typical watch and wait hunting methods of the kingfisher family, and the engaging Willie Wagtail. This small fantail feeds on and around the ground, bouncing up and flying around like a stunt kite as it chases small insects.

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New Zealand Ducks Australia Japan 171

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2023

They are also hunted. Ackerman skirts around a related problem, the trade in owls in markets in southeast Asia and Japan, an outgrowth of Harry Potter mania. They roost and hunt, at night (mostly) when we can’t see them. Sprigs of Wolf Lichen spring from the Douglas firs, a gorgeous, almost iridescent lime green.

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Owls Science Barn Owls Penguins 207

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 30, 2023

The Chestnut-winged Babbler is known as one of the host species of the Asian Drongo-cuckoo in Southeast Asia ( source ), a claim to fame that most bird species would probably prefer to avoid. The Blue-throated Bee-eater is much smaller than its relative, and easier to see as it likes to hunt from open wires rather than inside the forest.

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Woodpeckers Birds Eggs India 204