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Birding Balangshan, Sichuan, China (part 1)

10,000 Birds

China’s massive investment in infrastructure has indirectly benefited birders. This blue is not a pigment but rather a “structural color”, something I am too lazy to write about now but which has been explained nicely before, for example here. And it is a great place for birding.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

10,000 Birds

For example, I could recommend that you read the story above in its original German language as the “subtleties of Kafka’s mastery of the language are not fully covered in the translation”). And some ornamental trees planted in the road divider offer food for Chinese Grosbeak. And it does not even live in reeds.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

Over 95% of all animals raised for food in the U.S. Rest assured that if you are purchasing meat from your favorite fast food restaurant, your favorite sit-down chain restaurant, or your local grocery store, you are purchasing the flesh of a tortured animal. are raised in cruel, inhumane factory farms.