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Birding Inner Mongolia

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Second note: Inner Mongolia has a land area larger than that of France and Germany combined, and I only spent one week there. ” So, while the first moral seems to be quite acceptable by today’s standards, the second one is surprisingly non-pc. So, to claim that I birded Inner Mongolia is a massive exaggeration.

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A review of the birdcentric novel “Accidentals” (the title of which is in the plural for a reason)

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She lives part-time in Uruguay and is co-director of the Fiction Meets Science program at the University of Bremen, Germany, which seeks to bridge the “two cultures” of science and literature. And, given the complicated questions of morality inherent in various parts of her story, she has the perfect (and perfectly ambiguous) ending.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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The Lesser Coucals sometimes try to argue with Chestnut-winged Cuckoos about the morality of having other species raise their chicks (The Lesser Coucal Species Committee also likes to point out that the species neither invaded Ukraine nor ever voted for Donald Trump – they can be a bit boring in insisting on always being on the good side).

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