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Chilling out with Rollers and Hoopoes

10,000 Birds

The final site of the day was sewage ponds of the sugar factory by the town of Kovin. This sugar factory is closed for years already and there is no one to talk to, but building a nesting raft here would be of greatest importance. The Danube shallows are waterless.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

10,000 Birds

Fortunately, Tianmashan is probably too hilly to ever be turned into a Tesla factory or a technology park. Tianmashan bonus mammal: a Raccoon Dog – though it looks a lot like a raccoon, it is actually more closely related to foxes than to raccoons. The White’s Thrush will keep pretending to be a reptile.

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Michael Fox on Vegetarianism

Animal Ethics

All it establishes is that we should eat far less meat so that factory farms become obsolete and that, in conjunction with this, arable land should be turned over to the production of high-protein crops, where possible, so that world hunger can be alleviated somewhat. But even this fails to establish a case for vegetarianism.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Even “factory” agriculture has its limits. Common sense tells us not to put the foxes in charge of the henhouse, but politicians repeatedly deny common sense in favor of the needs of special-interest groups. If we cannot separate government from economic special-interest groups, then we will continue down the same path we are on.

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Flight to Freedom

4 The Love Of Animals

CSI actress Jorja Fox, the ADI spokesperson for the operation, greeted the lions when they arrived in San Francisco said: “These magnificent lions have lived all their lives in a tiny cage on the back of a truck. ADI also rescues animals in distress worldwide.

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Collaborative List – January 2019

10,000 Birds

old angel factory area. Fox Sparrow – Passerella iliaca. Durand-Eastman Park–Zoo Rd. 04 Jan 2019. Rufous-winged Woodpecker – Piculus simplex. 05 Jan 2019. Golden-olive Woodpecker – Colaptes rubiginosus. 26 Jan 2019. Northern Flicker – Colaptes auratus. Fort Tilden–Fishermans Parking Lot. 01 Jan 2019.

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Collaborative list – April 2019

10,000 Birds

Fox Sparrow – Passerella iliaca. old angel factory area. Flushing Meadows Corona Park–Willow Lake. 01 Jan 2019. Black-crowned Night-Heron – Nycticorax nycticorax. Flushing Meadows Corona Park–Willow Lake. 01 Jan 2019. Flushing Meadows Corona Park–Willow Lake. 01 Jan 2019. 01 Jan 2019. Los Cartagos.

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