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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

10,000 Birds

Pat Fish was the creative force behind a band called Jazz Butcher – he died in October last year. Not always terrible – ok if you are in business class, or you catch it yourself. There are also several songs on Spotify with “ Little Egret” in the title, but at first listening, they all seem to suck.

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Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on the Degradation of the Butcher

Animal Ethics

Of all recognised occupations by which, in civilised countries, a livelihood is sought and obtained, the work which is looked upon with the greatest loathing (next to the Hangman's) is that of the Butcher—as witness the opprobrious sense which the word "butcher" has acquired. Henry S.

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I Remember Elephants

10,000 Birds

I say they were butchered, face-off. If you or your children face elephant extinction during your lifetime, do not accuse solely the rise of the middle classes in the Far East, fueling a new demand for ivory. Even worse is the situation with Forest Elephants Loxodonta cyclotis of jungles of Central and West Africa. One may say so.

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Birding Inner Mongolia

10,000 Birds

And second , when a man marries, it is recommended that he take a wife from his own class, one who looks just like him. Notice how they never sit together on buses? In other words, a hedgehog should always take care that his wife is also a hedgehog, and so forth.”

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