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Birding the Danzhou Bay area (Hainan, China) by day

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The Spring Festival – or Chinese New Year – is a big period for traveling in China. While not on the scale of bird migration, it is routinely and somewhat lazily described as the biggest annual migration of humans in the world. Being somewhat allergic to crowds, I usually avoid traveling during the peak of this period.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 6)

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The Sacred Ibis was seen as the incarnation of the god Thoth, who (with gods apparently better at multitasking than humans) was (or maybe still is, who knows?) ” Somebody should have warned the poor kites not to copy everything that humans do. Nice to encounter a quail that is not as shy as the ones here in China!

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For Your Health, the Planet & the Animals: VBM

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And then I read THE CHINA STUDY and was shocked to learn how unhealthy the Standard American Diet is--even cow's milk, which I thought I should be having three servings of per day! I recently watched Earthlings and cried the whole way through. And you know how concerned I am about water on Planet Earth.

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Birding Balangshan (peak area) in June 2023

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The best female strategy seems to be to mate with as many of the males as possible, as this means more help in feeding the chicks by all the potential fathers (I guess the fathers do not have easy access to paternity tests). The Tibetan Snowcock at first glance looks a bit like Obelix to me – I guess it is the stripes.

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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 2)

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Then we are both hopeless … Anyway, the paper tests whether small roads in a forest are a hindrance to birds – are they reluctant to cross? ” The website www.jwcpheasants.com seems to endorse polygamy for this species despite this being illegal in the USA for other animals such as humans. hardwickii and C.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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For example, without this blog, would you know that the Barn Swallows of Nanhui are now having their own housing boom, ignorant of the overinvestment that has characterized China’s construction industry? As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. Humanity is not very human.

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Are You Wearing Man's Best Friend? That Trim on the Hood of Your Jacket Might Be Dog Fur!

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As reported in the AP story, two styles of Sean John jackets—one a hooded snorkel style, the other a classic version—were originally advertised as faux fur, but an investigation by the Humane Society of the United States [ HSUS ] found that the jackets were made from dog fur.

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