10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 14, 2023
That is mainly the Philippines, as indicated by the species name lucionensis (Luzon is the Philippines’ biggest island). A paper by the Department of Environment and Natural Resources of the Philippines argues that trapping the parrot is essentially a way of wasting money.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
I remember a cartoon showing the prehistoric Earth as a vast forest with tiny villages fenced-off due to dangerous animals, and the today’s Earth as a wasteland, with a few tiny forests remaining, fenced-off due to abominable humans. That cartoon is not showing some dystopian future, but the world we already live in.
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10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 13, 2023
I agree with eBird that the Asian Glossy Starling is “fierce-looking” Appropriately, it is an invasive species in places such as Taiwan, where some papers recommend reducing the population.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 8, 2011
If studying insects would lead you to suppose that God had an “an inordinate fondness for beetles&# , studying the pre-human avifauna of the Pacific would lead you to conclude that God was also quite partial to rails. The fossil record of the islands don’t show the Buff-banded Rail appearing until after humans arrived.
Critter News
FEBRUARY 21, 2009
A precious thing, possibly the last of its kind, enjoyed for a few minutes by a human being, then destroyed by another. A rare quail from the Philippines was photographed for the first time before being sold as food at a poultry market, experts say.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 10, 2017
” It needs no spoiler alert to say that Strycker did, indeed, meet his original goal (in the Philippines, with a Flame-crowned Flowerpecker , #5000, accompanied by the inevitable, but actually pretty good, ribaldry). . “When all your energy is focused on a single purpose,” he says, “nothing else seems to matter.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 15, 2014
The zoo has already identified several species like the huge monkey-eating Philippine eagle that are at once distinct, endangered, and suffer from lack of attention. At some point perhaps I’ll write up for you how the evolution of humans, specifically the ape-human split, and Galapagos bird evolution are the same thing in this regard.
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