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What endangered species have you seen?

Discussion in 'Wildlife & Nature Conservation' started by birdsandbats, 9 Oct 2017.

  1. animal_expert01

    animal_expert01 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Of the coast of Mooloolaba, while Whale watching.
     
  2. Hix

    Hix Wildlife Enthusiast and Lover of Islands 15+ year member Premium Member

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    Lucky!
     
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  3. Swampy

    Swampy Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    Flatback turtle is listed as data deficient, not vulnerable.
     
  4. Chlidonias

    Chlidonias Moderator Staff Member 15+ year member

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    He might be using the Australian Government status which lists the Flatback Turtle as Vulnerable.

    However they list the Leatherback Turtle as Endangered (IUCN says Vulnerable, which is an improvement on their previous listings for the species).
     
  5. Fallax

    Fallax Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Only one I know I have definitley seen is the Cuban Crocodile.
     
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  6. Moorish

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    Humphead Wrasse, Green Sea Turtle, Leatherback Turtle, Green Sawfish, Banggai Cardinal, Cuban Crocodile,
     
  7. animalszoos

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    Proboscis Monkey - endangered
    Bornean Orangutan - critically endangered
    Australian Sea Lion - endangered
    Ussuri Brown Bear - vulnerable
    Green Sea Turtle - endangered
    Arabian Oryx - vulnerable
    Arabian Gazelle - vulnerable
     
  8. RetiredToTheZoo

    RetiredToTheZoo Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    The only one I've ever seen in my 60+ years was just last month. California Condors (Gymnogyps californianus) soaring over the Grand Canyon. What a beautiful bird!
     
  9. Sarus Crane

    Sarus Crane Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Seeing one of those is on my list!
     
  10. aardvark250

    aardvark250 Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    I remember seeing black-faced spoonbill.
     
  11. FBBird

    FBBird Well-Known Member 10+ year member

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    I can only think of one that I've seen in the wild -- the Critically Endangered Philippine Cockatoo.
     
  12. birdsandbats

    birdsandbats Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    They are easy to find in some parts of Wisconsin, especially during the breeding season. If you go to the right nature preserves, you can easily see multiple! My record is seven in one day.
     
  13. Sarus Crane

    Sarus Crane Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    They come to FL occasionally so I'm waiting for some to fly down. Never been to Wisconsin but want to go sometime to see the International Crane Foundation, Circus World, Mount Olympus theme park and Milwaukee.
     
  14. birdsandbats

    birdsandbats Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    I have been to all but the theme park, and they are all great.
     
  15. carl the birder

    carl the birder Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    sory for posting in a old thrend but i vanted to do this
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    vunlerable
    velet scoter
    long taild duck
    comon pochard
    horned grebe
    atlantic puffing
    blue crane
    seketery bird
    wooly necked stork
    seychells kestrel
    seychells swiftlet
     
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  16. carl the birder

    carl the birder Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    oh and souther ground hornbill
     
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  17. Kakapo

    Kakapo Well-Known Member

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    I was curious about many species of your list being considered as endangered, overall things such as common pochard and atlantic puffin. Are they really considered as Vulnerable?? I wanted to check it in IUCN, but the absoulely horrendous satanic new layout of the IUCN website locked my computer during 20!!!! minutes, so I finally managed to close the page but of course didn't checked the status of these species. Somebody with a connexion able to support the outrageous disaster that is now IUCN website, could tell me if these species are really vulnerable? (and could somebody also put the designer of the new IUCN layout in jail for life? :p :p :p)
     
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  18. birdsandbats

    birdsandbats Well-Known Member 5+ year member

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    Both are really Vulnerable.
     
  19. Kakapo

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    Oh, thanks my friend! This kinda susprises me, particulally in the case of the puffin, that lives in barely accesible areas without much disturbance and locally are very common. Overfishing is the only danger factor that I could think for them, tough the small fishes that are the diet of the puffin are usually not the target of seafood industry...
     
  20. birdsandbats

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    Overfishing as well as illegal hunting.