Here are a male and a female Copsychus saularis which I spotted some years ago in Ayutthaya in Thailand. The species is threatened by pet bird trade and habitat changes.
Thank you to the members of the Birdforum who helped with the ID.
Despite its duck-like look, Scopus umbretta is a wading bird. I saw this one a few years ago in Kruger Park.
This Corvus frugilegus and I met a couple of years ago in Scotland, on a beach near St. Andrews. These highly intelligent birds face the threads of losing habitat because of extensive agriculture, of losing food because of mercury coating on seeds and the use of pesticides, and of losing their life because stupid humans shoot them (http://www.iucnredlist.org/details/22705983/0).
This Oenanthe leucura was spotted on a beach near Oran in Algeria. The species is native in the Maghreb region and classified ‘Least Concern’, but possibly extinct in France and Gibraltar.
Many thanks to the people on birdforum.net for their help with the ID.
On the picture are some of the titles which I hope to read in the coming weeks. On my e-reader, I have started with Cameroon, and Brazil, Haiti, Vatican, Antarctica and Kazakhstan are ready to go.
I’m still looking for suggestions for the following places:
Central African Republic, Comoros, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bisseau, Honduras, Maldives, Mauritania, Monaco, Nauru, Niger, Palau, Panama, Moldova, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, San Marino, Sao Tome and Principe, Singapore, South Sudan, Tajikistan, Timor Leste, Turkmenistan, Tuvalu, UAE, Uzbekistan, Vanuatu, Akrotiri and Dhekelia, French Guyana, French Polynesia, Kurdistan, Mayotte, Netherland Antilles, New Caledonia, Norfolk Island, Pitcairn Island, Reunion.
Please leave a comment if you know of a good book by an author from one of these places. Thanks!
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