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Water, Water, Everywhere

10,000 Birds

It was time to test the umbrella method again. Black-bellied Plover on the left, collection of Peeps on the right. Those are Dunlins on the right and in the middle; longer bills, darker breast, and much larger than the much more common Western Sandpiper on the left. The moral of the story? Most winter in the U.S.

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Buff-breasted Sandpiper Overload (and Other Fall Birding Highlights in Costa Rica)

10,000 Birds

We don’t see the sky blue little bird of the canopy in droves but bird the right places in late August and early September and you have a pretty good chance of finding a few. The biggest highlight right now, though, is shorebird migration. A typical scene at Punta Morales. An Osprey on vacation.

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On Keeping "Vegan" Pure

Animal Person

But I hope you will agree that by not eating or wearing animals or products that use or were tested on sentient nonhumans that you know of, and by not participating in or promoting events that use animals as entertainment, you are doing a world of good for the planet and the creatures who live here.

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For Your Health, the Planet & the Animals: VBM

Animal Person

I mean, where do they get their morals from? How do they know what's right? That would be like brainwashing, and that's just not right. But I have to be realistic and reasonable, as it's not like the whole world is going to go vegan just because it's the right thing to do. And what are they living their lives for?

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Bernard E. Rollin on the Moral Status of Animals

Animal Ethics

Philosophers have shown that the standard reasons offered to exclude animals from the moral circle, and to justify not assessing our treatment of them by the same moral categories and machinery we use for assessing the treatment of humans, do not meet the test of moral relevance. 41 in A Companion to Bioethics , 2d ed.,

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Tom Regan (1938-2017), R.I.P.

Animal Ethics

Yesterday, the world lost its most powerful voice for animal rights, Tom Regan. No one has done more to explain what "animal rights" means and why animals have rights than Tom Regan. As Regan expressed so simply and straightforwardly, what animal rights advocates want is for "people to stop doing terrible things to animals."

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ACTION ALERT! Tomorrow, MARCH 15, 2011, is the deadline for public.

10,000 Birds

Here’s a tidbit from the NRA’s Hunters’ Rights website: “Sandhill cranes are hunted much like geese, with decoys set in fields and hunters stationed in blinds. You may not agree with it… but for millions of people across this nation hunting is a moral thing to do. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.

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