10,000 Birds

AUGUST 20, 2015

I live in the southeast of Europe, for a while lived in the south of Africa and also have extensively birded western and central India. India (1180 / 1171). And it raises a question: if all the birds are having a party over there, am I in the wrong spot? Map by BirdLife International. The Oriental realm. Indonesia (1615 / 1603).

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Sri Lanka Botswana Africa Serbia 257

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2014

These bustards are protected by international agreements and hunting them is banned in India. To add insult to injury, the hunting party appears to have targeted their prey at nature preserves and wildlife sanctuaries, ignoring the bag limits and other restrictions of their permits.

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Pakistan Hunters Hunting India 184

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2019

In fact, I have had some visitors from India remark to me that “there are no birds here” – a remark I can understand given the huge number of birds encountered even in big Indian cities such as Mumbai or Delhi. This has also made the Reed Parrotbill the symbol of a local initiative to protect the wetlands of Nanhui.

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China Protection Factory Birds 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

It’s also endangered, with populations in India and Cambodia numbering barely around the 1,000 mark. National Geographic highlights the amazing story of how a group of villagers banded together to educate their neighbors and protect the Stork, a scavenger also called Hargilla (Sanskrit for “bone swallower”).

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Cambodia India 2016 Groups 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2019

This was only my second time ever to observe this subspecies (the first time was here as well), two other subspecies I have observed in India. Construction has always been prohibited and the undisturbed expanse of Beljarica has always served as a major spawning, nesting, resting and foraging area for a multitude of wildlife.

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Serbia Otters Boars Hunters 244

Critter News

OCTOBER 9, 2010

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. Tags: wildlife smuggling tigers interpol asia endangered species.

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Tigers International Fund For Animal Welfare IFAW Nepal 100

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2013

Finally, when our SUV broke down in Gujarat, India, some three years ago, my first two Egyptians were flying above the road! In 2010, a joint expedition by the Bulgarian Society for the Protection of Birds (BSPB) and the Sudanese Wildlife Society (SWS) found a further 17 electrocuted Egyptian Vultures.

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Sudan Macedonia Botswana Serbia 223

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Orange-headed Thrush Orange-headed Thrush By Redgannet • March 6, 2011 • 18 comments Tweet Share The Orange-headed Thrush , Zoothera citrinus, is common across much of India and south-east Asia. In the Z.c.

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2011 Deer India New York 180

10,000 Birds

JUNE 11, 2013

Geladas are the sole survivors of a once abundant branch of primates that historically foraged across the grasslands of Africa, the Mediterranean and India. In parts of the Simien Mountains of northern Ethiopia, from which I have just returned, Geladas have been protected from persecution for some time. Photo by Adam Riley.

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Ethiopia Primates Mammals Fur 160

10,000 Birds

MARCH 11, 2011

Originally from India and the vicinity, it is believed that they had already undergone two major expansions – through Asia Minor in the 1600s, and then across Europe in the 1900s – when they first appeared in North America. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity.

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Montana 2011 Bahamas Deer 134

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JANUARY 7, 2014

We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. David Tipling, award-winning and widely published wildlife photographer, travelled the world during this period, photographing people interacting with birds, and sometimes, just birds. As they say, the relationship is complicated.

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Egypt Birds Albania Eagles 211

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DECEMBER 4, 2013

And embattled minority should be protected. People that are interested in conservation are all about the should – conservation’s raison d’être is the people perceiving that we should protect species and ecosystems, we should not allow them to be lost to extinction. A hungry child should be fed. I hear you.

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Tigers Hunting Game Iraq 171