10,000 Birds

JULY 22, 2024

It starts with the sentence “Noomi wakes up early on Sunday morning because her right ear hurts with a dull, regular pulse.” Similarly, a story titled “Call of the Greater Coucal ” published by Middlebury College Publications is also inaccessible to me, so I cannot comment on its literary or ornithological merit.

Vietnam 246

Vietnam Fowl Birds Iran 246

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 21, 2014

It inhabits rather dry areas within a region notorious for being one of the rainiest parts of the world, and is thus patchily distributed from Burma through Laos, Cambodia, parts of Thailand and south China, all the way to Vietnam. Then there is a gap of around 2,000 km (or 1,200 miles). Surprise, surprise.

Burma 203

Burma Laos Cambodia Indonesia 203

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Nonggang is a rural place in Guangxi with a nice landscape somewhat reminiscent of coastal Northern Vietnam (well, it is not too far away). It is listed as Vulnerable, as its range is rather restricted, though it has been found outside of China as well, e.g., in Vietnam, though the HBW does not seem to have read that paper yet.

China 147

China Vietnam Monkeys Birds 147

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 9, 2023

Napo is a county in the West of Guangxi, bordering both Yunnan and Vietnam. It is about 3 hours by car from Nanning airport, which in turn can be reached from Shanghai in a 2.5-hour hour flight.

China 147

China Hunting Birds illegal 147

10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2016

The White Wagtail Motacilla alba , or the taxonomic entity formerly known as “White Wagtail”, comprises a complex of 9 differently-looking forms which have some white in their plumage, wag their tail and inhabit all of Eurasia from eastern Greenland and Morocco to western-most Alaska and northern Vietnam.

Germany 100

Germany Sharks Morocco Asia 100

Animal Ethics

JUNE 4, 2009

If I pay my taxes during the Vietnam war, does this mean I am tacitly supporting the war? But so could lots of other things: wearing an animal rights button, picketing meat-packing houses, and so on. It is certainly not clear what one gives one’s tacit consent to in following a practice. Certainly not. What if I don’t eat meat?

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Protest Protesting 40

Animal Ethics

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. In 1974 we shipped four times as much food to Cambodia and South Vietnam as to starving Bangladesh and Swahelian Africa.

Vegetarian 40

Vegetarian Morals Meat Cattle 40

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 4, 2023

For the Chinese New Year 2022 holidays, my girlfriend and I decided to visit the remote areas of Guangxi in the South of China, at the border to Vietnam. I asked myself while I was in the taxi on my way to the airport.

China 189

China Birds Emotional Vietnam 189