Critter News

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Another tiger lost. Tags: poaching tigers malaysia endangered species.

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Critter News

AUGUST 1, 2009

India is to amend its wildlife crime laws to protect the country's tigers, a government minister said. He added that the forest ministry, state governments and a separate authority on the management of tiger reserves had agreed to work together to ensure conservation of the endangered animal.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 4, 2013

This species was discovered (shot, actually) in the 19 th century, only to be lost through the entire 20 th century. A tin yellow tiger is staring at us from the Melghat Tiger Reserve gates, as the narrow tarmac road winds through teak forest ( Tectona grandis ) along the hillside. We go back several meters and… “Yes.

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Critter News

MARCH 2, 2010

It's the Year of the Tiger on the Chinese calendar and there's plenty of talk and meetings going around. Tags: tigers china endangered species. I like this opinion piece in the Huffington Post. But what does it really mean if you and I don't engage in saving this beautiful animal?

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Tigers Endangered Species China Tagged 100

4 The Love Of Animals

MAY 7, 2013

Three endangered Malayan tiger cubs were born at Busch Gardens Tampa Sunday, March 31. These births are critical to help preserve the species. Malayan tigers are critically endangered. These newborn cubs will add to the genetic diversity of the Malayan tiger population and contribute to conservation efforts for the species.

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Tampa Tigers Thailand Livestock 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2019

This species was discovered (shot, actually) in the 19th century, only to be lost through the entire 20th century. A tin yellow tiger is staring at us from the Melghat Tiger Reserve gates, as the narrow tarmac road winds through teak forest ( Tectona grandis ) along the hillside. I have a quick cup of black tea and off we go.

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India Owls Tigers Cows 208

Critter News

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

Tags: India poaching tigers china endangered species.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

On a recent visit I threw my bags in the hotel room and went straight there, and got over 60 species of birds in a few hours and fantastic views of Nilgai , the largest antelope in India. Commoner species include Bar-headed Geese , parakeets, shrikes, mynas and minivets. Or you may like to join us on a Rajashtan Tour?

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 1, 2016

So, I birded India, land of Indian Peafowl , Saag Paneer (my favorite Indian dish) and Tigers. Well, they were all memorable, but these two involve subjects people have asked about without fail—the Taj Mahal and Tigers. Target: Tigers. The species is crepuscular and nocturnal, but can sometimes be seen during the day.

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India Tigers Owls Birds 189

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 18, 2014

There are some pretty cool tropical forests in Tiquicia (a local name for Costa Rica) and that’s where you need to go to see most of the bird species. Nope, that’s not a joke, it is one of three species in the Finfoot family, the other two being the Masked Finfoot and the African Finfoot.

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Costa Rica Tigers Chickens South America 170

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 4, 2011

Despite being an ordinary family with the usual interests in elephants, lions, tigers and the likes (there are sadly no Banded Pittas at Heidelberg Zoo), there is one feature that has been our main attraction and focus for the last few months: the duck pond. He doesn’t go there for the ducks, but for the fish.

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Zoos Elephants Tigers Ducks 220

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2019

This year, my main challenge is identifying 700 species within the borders of Costa Rica by December 31st. Those 700 species also need to be identified by my partner Mary (the other half of Team Tyto) because the road to 700 species is one that we are walking together. Such stops have already yield the tiger-heron and dipper.

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Costa Rica Tigers Tennessee Cooking 208

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 5, 2022

There’s an unofficial series of posts on species of birds that occur in threes in T&T (see: bitterns , trogons , antshrikes , spinetails , manakins , hermits , honeycreepers , and resident warblers ). Rufescent Tiger-Heron. This Northern Waterthrush was seen foraging close to one of the many shallow pools.

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Trinidad Birds Tigers Monkeys 264

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2016

I already have a history of searches for this species. Asia: Somewhere below that mysterious eagle, at the far shore of the lake, lies one Bengal Tiger … and further to the right – two more! These are my first wild tigers ever! 10000birds.com/tadoba-andhari-tiger-reserve-the-tiger-afternoon.htm.

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Wildlife Tigers Asia Europe 189

10,000 Birds

MARCH 17, 2021

The area is known for being a breeding area of the enigmatic Rufous Crab-Hawk and it was the first place I saw the species, many years ago. On our journey back, we tried again by a couple forested bridges for any glimpse of a Rufescent Tiger-Heron , but no luck on that front. Rufous Crab-Hawk. Maybe another time. Such is birding.

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Sea Turtles Bats Turtles Trinidad 278

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2023

A winding track through dense woodlands takes us to the Telia Lake in the southeast of the Tadoba Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra. All of a sudden, in a hushed voice he says one word only: “ Tigers! Somewhere at the far shore of the lake, lies one Bengal Tiger ( more ). There are no range maps.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Webster`s Dictionary defines Cuculophotobia as “The fear of bird photographers to post cuckoo photos online due to the high likeliness of getting the species assignment wrong.” Some cuckoo species. I saw one mobbing a cuckoo, and indeed this species is parasitized by cuckoos. Tiger Shrike. Brown Shrike.

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Tigers Cattle Breeding Bears 222

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 4, 2021

Some other members of the shrike family were a bit less testosterone-driven at Nanhui – like this Bull-headed Shrike … … this rather attractive-looking Tiger Shrike … … or one of the many Brown Shrikes passing through Nanhui on migration. This one looks different. ” Hm. .”

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Critter News

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

The Kathmandu Global Tiger Workshop declared 2010 to be the Year of the Tiger. The intention is to focus on saving the tiger species which is being decimated. When China won't support a ban on tiger farms, nor will it work to curb the ridiculous demand for tiger products in its own country, what's the point?

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2010 Tigers China Endangered Species 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 21, 2024

This was only my fourth encounter with the species (all on the east side). He should have visited my home last month, when both species were visiting my birdbath almost daily. Although, truth be told, this species does seem to be a rarity in Tabasco.) It was by far my best (and longest) view of this species.

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Mexico Birds Raccoons Baltimore 238

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2014

Furthermore, the total population in Hemis National Park is estimated at 50-60 individuals, making the park an important genetic reservoir for this species which is classified on the IUCN’s Red Data List as Endangered. This is the genus of the typical large cats including Lion, Leopard, Jaguar and Tiger.

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Snow Leopard Leopards Hunting Sheep 279

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 15, 2020

Tiger Shrike. Cuckoo species (common?): And of course, there are all kinds of insects, spiders, dragonflies, caterpillars, etc. I wish I could be more precise about them, but I am not an entomologist. Brown Shrike: Shrikes that are on a diet only eat the legs. Black-winged Cuckoo Shrike.

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Fish Rodents China Vegetarian 226

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 23, 2023

This is how it looks like: Or at sunset: A species I did not come for from Shanghai is the Black-crowned Night Heron. Its species name graydoni is in honor of Philip Newenham Graydon (1864-1940), a British planter in Sabah. Why that makes Mr. Graydon worthy of having a bird species named after him is a mystery to me.

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Birds Elephants Eagles Rhinoceros 245

10,000 Birds

MAY 28, 2020

A Tiger Shrike – as always – looks very stylish. A cuckoo species with a sense of honor, being a non-parasitic cuckoo. Little Ringed Plovers are fiercely protective of their cute chicks. Understandably, after all the trouble of incubating the eggs. A Grey Night Jar does what it does best – being almost invisible.

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Tigers Birds Eggs Farming 190

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2022

For once, eBird gives a good description of the Asian Glossy Starling, calling it a “Fierce-looking, large songbird” As are humans, this species is fairly urbanized – it “sometimes enters urban areas to roost, e.g. in Singapore” (HBW). In Singapore, Common Redshanks mostly drink Tiger Beer. “Odd, me?”

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Singapore Birds Zebras Feral 259

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Photos courtesy of Mosetlha Bush Camp A dusty-red road leads me through Marico bushveld deeper into the 750 square kilometers large wilderness of the Madikwe Game Reserve – the 4th largest reserve in South Africa, home to 350 bird and 66 mammal species, some 4 hours’ drive from Johannesburg.

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South Africa Africa Game Elephants 264

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Everything was going to be extinct – the condors, the whales, the Whooping Cranes , the elephants and tigers, the whole shebang, and that was even if we didn’t get nuked. A species, wiped off the earth, never to exist again. Extinction is what befalls the species that fails to adapt, to survive, to thrive.

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Critter News

AUGUST 14, 2009

Detectives seized 200 products believed to be made from endangered animals including musk deer, leopards and tigers. The raid took place on the day an amendment to the law controlling illegal trade in endangered species came into effect.

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Critter News

AUGUST 17, 2010

A private zoo operator in Taiwan cross-bred lions and tigers, resulting in three "liger" cubs. Both species are endangered and it is illegal to cross breed them. Cross-breeding two protected species is completely against nature. Tags: zoos taiwan tigers lion endangered species. From Focus Taiwan.

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Taiwan China Lions Tigers 100

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JUNE 1, 2023

Since I have limited experience with eastern Mexico, and even less experience with tropical species, I enthusiastically accepted. By week’s end I had 30 new species on my life list. And the final species, seen in the neighborhood in which I was housed, gave me my 500th species in Mexico. Good choice!

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Critter News

JULY 13, 2009

Illegal trade in tiger meat and bones is also alive, continuing to threaten the extinction of an already depleted species, he said. Tags: wildlife smuggling Traditional Chinese Medicine tigers exotic meat china endangered species.

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China Wildlife Tigers Endangered Species 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 24, 2014

Due to the Ganges floods, their planned weekend of sailing through the labyrinth of channels turned into a week-long stay among about 270 Tigers , according to the 2011 census – the last population inhabiting mangroves and one of the highest concentrations anywhere on the planet! And tell me now – don’t you share my dream? I know you do.

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Bangladesh Dolphins Cambodia Cooking 207

10,000 Birds

JUNE 22, 2011

Oehlenschlager apologized that he couldn’t say the exact species of bat. Who cares, the fact that he could narrow it down to 2 species was quite amazing to me. Great horneds are known as the “Tiger of the Woods&# because they’ll hunt anything and they are good at it, but they are slow and stealthy.

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Bats Dissection Minnesota Owls 240

10,000 Birds

APRIL 23, 2020

Having more than 1300 bird species, including over 75 endemics, it is hard to resist the lure of India – something I know from personal experience. The 100 Best Birdwatching Sites in India allows you to focus on species (Index at pg. India is a huge and logistically frightening country. 295), reserves and states (starting from pg.

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4 The Love Of Animals

APRIL 20, 2012

Especially it is associated with dogs, which may raise kids of other species and even of scary and dangerous representatives of wildlife! One of the recent developments, which caught an eye of many pet-lovers, is an adoption of three newly born tigers by German shepherd in Chinese Reserve on January 2012.

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Badgers Tigers Porcupines Zoos 100

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 1, 2015

For there is no species that I had more comprehensively failed to see than the Leopard. Most gallingly of all, I had actually stood next to someone that saw one, jumping into a tree to escape a Tiger of all things, and failed to see it. Leopards were problem species for me. The cats are, almost to a species, elusive.

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Cats Leopards Tigers South Africa 113

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

After the hawk the species piled up fast, with a flyover Black-headed Trogon , Pale-vented Pigeons , Olive-throated Parakeets , and wide variety of other species showing themselves. “ Bare-throated Tiger-Heron !” Bare-throated Tiger-Heron. Gray Hawk nearly in full adult plumage. adult Common Black Hawk.

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