Critter News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Anyway, India is appealing to its other neighbors which would include Pakistan, Nepal, Bhutan, Bangladesh and Myanmar. They have been pretty frustrated with China, who really doesn't give a rip about tigers.unless they can raise them on farms for "medicinal" harvest and other capitalist pursuits.

India 100

India Tigers Bhutan Bangladesh 100

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The other part of its attractiveness may be coming from the fact that it breeds in Iraq, Iran, Afghanistan, and Pakistan – countries seldom visited by foreign birders. Part of its attraction lies in it being a monotypic bird in the family Hypocoliidae – there are no other bird species in its genus and family.

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Iran India Pakistan Afghanistan 216

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FEBRUARY 4, 2012

Its name pays homage to the bird that shares much of its distribution across North Africa, The Gulf, Pakistan and Afghanistan. With the downcurved bill and mottled chest, I should like to add thrasher to that list.

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Cape Verde Pakistan Afghanistan Senegal 160

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JANUARY 8, 2015

This pigeon is the national bird of Maharashtra and remains so after the officials rejected the proposal by conservationists that the rare and endemic Forest Owlet , found only in this state and nowhere else in the world, should replace the pigeon that inhabits the entire India, Pakistan and Afghanistan.

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Tigers Boars India Chickens 248

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FEBRUARY 19, 2013

They nest on the vast central plains of Asia and winter in inhospitable places like Iraq and Pakistan, and rarely visited places like the White Desert of Kutch in Gujarat. As it turns out things aren’t really that bad for it, it’s just that they tend to hang out in unpopulated areas.

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Pakistan India Iraq North Carolina 165

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JULY 25, 2013

Once this species inhabited wide steppes of India and Pakistan, but nowadays remain in ever smaller and more isolated habitat fragments. After the African Kori Bustard and Eurasian Great Bustard (and I have observed both of them), this is the third largest bustard of the world. Males reach 1.2

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India Gazelles Pakistan Endangered Species 239

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OCTOBER 24, 2012

Also, if the count is ever going to go worldwide – and I assume that someday that is the goal – what are the odds of getting Pakistan or Saudi Arabia to hold a Christmas Bird Count? Words have meanings and different words have different connotations to different people.

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Saudi Arabia Pakistan Abandoning Abandonment 142

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JUNE 8, 2023

Of course, what is shown here (and in the video ) is a female – kind of typical for this blog. Please state your dismay and disappointment clearly in the comments section.

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China Tenant Pakistan Birds 130