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Sado Wildlife in Focus | An Unexpected Visitor in the Paddy Fields
7+ hour, 17+ min ago (362+ words) JAPAN Forward I had my camera ready as usual when a long-beaked silhouette caught my eye, reflected on the surface of a rice paddy. For a split second, I thought it was an ibis, but something was clearly off. The…...
Sado Wildlife in Focus | Tractors Turn Rice Fields into a Bird Paradise
3+ week, 6+ day ago (439+ words) Late spring has finally arrived on Sado Island in Niigata Prefecture, nestled in the Sea of Japan. With it, the rice fields come alive as farmers begin plowing in preparation for the season. Among those most eagerly awaiting this work…...
Sado Wildlife in Focus | Why Nearly 100 Ibises Vanished in a Year
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (720+ words) Since their first release into the wild in 2008, their population had been steadily increasing. So when the committee reported that their numbers had suddenly dropped by roughly 100 in a single year, I was desperate to understand what had happened. The…...