10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2021
I can’t really blame the farmers, even though much of the expansion of avocado orchards is the product of illegal slash-and-burn practices (as in the photo below, which I took just last week). S triped-headed Sparrows. Rusty-crowned Ground-Sparrows. The state is, after all, Mexico’s fourth-poorest state.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 18, 2011
In fact, all of the images of Scarlet Macaws in this post are of the birds that live at Copan Archeological Park, birds that were seized at the border before they could be illegally exported.* If it weren’t such a horrible thing to do one might almost understand why folks would want to poach and cage Scarlet Macaws.
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10,000 Birds
JUNE 2, 2019
It is illegal to feed wild animals, take animals, birds and insects and it is also illegal to release animals in Singapore. There are also wild boars and macaque monkeys and you are advised to not rustle plastic bags, because they associate the noise with food. We started our day by walking from the main jetty to Chek Jawa Wetlands.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 5, 2011
These Blasts From The Past Ease Into Some Oekologie Oekologie #10 Undercover Taxidermist Busts Illegal Hunters Cerulean Warbler Gets a Boost in Colombia Audubon Rebrand About the Author Corey Corey is a New Yorker who has lived most of his life upstate but has spent the last three years in Queens.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 7, 2020
Species order follows the AOU Checklist of North American Birds up to the 2015 supplement (so warblers come before sparrows), with a variation– certain subspecies are treated as full species (Eurasian Teal, Western Willet, Audubon’s Warblers, Red Fox Sparrow, and more). . It’s a very mixed chapter.
10,000 Birds
MAY 16, 2018
Shakespeare was, supposedly , the reason starlings, house sparrows, and other non-native birds were introduced to North America. Ten thousand years ago, Thomas notes, house sparrows were unknown in Britain. By the time of Queen Elizabeth I, they were considered vermin, a bounty placed on their small heads. What’s magic about 1970?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 8, 2022
Unfortunately, Hen Harriers die disproportionally near British Grouse moors – most likely killed illegally by people hunting grouse for sports ( source ). As with many other bird species, the Latin name of the Hen Harrier , cyaneus (“dark blue”), is not a very good description of the female.
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