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Singapore a Transit Hub for Trafficking

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Seems like every other month I post an article about some SE Asian country being a " hub" for wildlife trafficking (eg. Tags: singapore wildlife crime wildlife trafficking asia. Vietnam, Malaysia.) How many more are there?

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“The 125 Best Bird Watching Sites in Southeast Asia”

10,000 Birds

This guide describes the 125 best birding sites for both common and rare species, covering Myanmar, Thailand, Laos (officially Lao PDR), Cambodia, Vietnam, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei, Indonesia, the Philippines and Timor Leste. Whatever was omitted or incorrect in the first is fixed in the second.

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Why Don’t I Have Any Finches At My Feeder?

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He’s a smart guy, a wildlife biologist and what he knows about native swans is incredible, but what he knew or didn’t know about bird feeding was surprising. Most of it comes from Singapore, Ethiopia and Burma. Some days you get bunches and bunches, other times you might feel totally rejected by them.

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Birds of the Indonesian Archipelago: Greater Sundas and Wallacea 2nd edition – A Field Guide Review

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The main conservation issues are habitat loss, hunting and wildlife trade. Rheindt is a field ornithologist, former guide and currently Associate Professor and Dean’s Chair at the National University of Singapore, with a research focus on avian phylogenetics and conservation genetics.

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Our Favorite Bird Books (and one pair of Binoculars) of 2022

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And the very best and the most up-to-date field guide is Birds of Malaysia – Covering Peninsular Malaysia, Malaysian Borneo and Singapore ”, the 2020 Lynx and BirdLife International Collection guide by Chong Leong Puan, Geoffrey Davison and Kim Chye Lim. This is the title for the person who lives for both literature and nature.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

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In Singapore, the White-crested Laughingthrush is widespread despite not being native and has some characteristics of an invasive species ( source ). Fish & Wildlife Service has a web page for this species – but it contains absolutely no information. ” Even more strangely, the U.S.

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of March 2011)

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The Snow Geese at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge will soon be winging their way north, so he spent some quality time with them, his best birds of the weekend. Check out the photo and movie in my blog: [link] Richard Mar 14th, 2011 at 3:51 am After a busy week in Jakarta and Singapore, I stayed on for Saturday to do some intensive birding.

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