Tag
China: development, trapping, and the birds caught between them
Reporting from China, from illegal bird trapping and the reclamation of the Rudong flats to a city park in Nanning and the birding around Beijing.
- Identifying claimed Spoon-billed Sandpipers
The bill shape that names the species is invisible from most angles. What separates a Spoon-billed Sandpiper from a Red-necked Stint in a large flock.
- Poisoned Oriental Storks, and a shift in Chinese conservation
An Endangered stork poisoned at a wetland in Tianjin, and the response that followed: rescue, media coverage and public anger from inside China.
Notesshort entries, not full articles
- Christoph Zöckler on the Rudong tidal flats
A survey week at Rudong recorded at least 106 Spoon-billed Sandpipers, possibly a third of the world population, on mudflats threatened with reclamation.
- People's Park, Nanning: birding a city park in Guangxi
An urban park in subtropical southern China, and what city parks are actually good for when you have a few hours and no transport.
- Terry Townshend on illegal mist-netting in China
Millions of birds a year taken in illegal nets, and the Chinese activists documenting and dismantling them.
- Terry Townshend on Jankowski's Bunting
One of East Asia's rarest birds, and a BirdLife Species Champion's effort to keep it from extinction. Recorded in Beijing.