Category Wildlife

Japanese Yellow Bunting merits concern regarding status with low numbers recorded and vulnerability to trapping

After I saw two Japanese Yellow Buntings (aka simply Yellow Buntings Emberiza sulphurata) in Hong Kong this spring, I happened to notice that Birdlife has changed the species’ status from Vulnerable – as it was from 1994 to 2016, to Least Concern in 2022. This surprised me: after…

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Turtle Park, Malaysia

Green turtle conservation on Pulau Selingaan, Sabah, Malaysia. Conservationists are helping to save these amazing relics of the past To the Rescue of Asia’s Endangered Turtles The night sky is full of stars and a warm breeze is blowing in across the Sulu Sea. On the beach the…

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NOT BB V

NOT BB V The magazine for the serious birdspotter Almost as Amazing as the Ancient Murrelet     Hybrids bloody hybrids Identification of Hadoram’s Short-term Lark {mospagebreak title=Captain Ticker}      

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NOT BB IV

The magazine for the serious birdspotter Almost as exciting as your first Scarlet Rosefinch He lived for travelShe lived for sex And now for the final installment of our romantic cereal – does Snowy get his oats this week? Return to Grimsmere       Birdcraft – a…

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Not BB III

The magazine for the serious birdspotter, Vol III NOT BB The magazine for the serious birdspotter Even more outrageous than the Landguard Paddyfield Warbler Why a Dusky Warbler in the hand is worth two in the Sueda bush by Eddie the Illeagle Stop the massacre! Prevent splitting of…

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Not BB ii

The magazine for the serious birdspotter, Vol II I’d upped and left for the Far East by the time the first NOT BB appeared; heard of its success – read out at log time on Scilly, Prof Shamrock reading it till he cried with laughter. Some people even…

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