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The Extreme Raptor Weekend Round-Up

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This weekend was meant to draw kids into the Hamburg, PA Cabela’s to experience birds in a up-close and personal kind of way. If the bird does not looked stressed in flight (for example, due to weather) you can use the head projection of the bird as a clue. Cheers and Good Birding!

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Finding Dippers in Berlin

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In Germany for example, they are breeding in practically every hilly or mountainous region south of the North German Plain and are not really rare if they occur in a certain region. Therefore, those very few northern winter guests that reach Germany are concentrated in our largest northern German cities, Berlin and Hamburg.

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Industrial Agriculture

Animal Ethics

Think of all the progressives— Michael Moore , for example—who either eat meat or go out of their way to ridicule vegetarians. Moore looks like he has eaten one too many hamburgers.) Animal rights is neither progressive nor conservative. Many progressives care only about human beings.

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Philip E. Devine on the Vegetarian's Dilemma

Animal Ethics

Think of the difference between eating a hamburger and eating a veggie burger, for example. But not eating meat doesn't mean you get no pleasure from eating; it means, at most, that you get less pleasure from eating. It is not as though the latter produces no pleasure!

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Book: Scent of the Missing

4 The Love Of Animals

It doesn’t take much for them to learn that we need them to find human scent –and not other animals, dropped hamburgers, or unspecified gook. The search dogs’ example reminds me of all the ways I’m less forgiving of my human counterparts and of myself. They let our past mistakes beside them go. I don’t think it matters.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

Animal Ethics

It only takes a little imagination to suppose that every bite of hamburger we eat is taking grain away from a hungry child in India. Given the people in the world who are hungry or even starving, we should not eat meat, since in eating meat we are, as it were, wasting grain that could be used to feed the hungry people of the world.

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Birding the Wolongshan area in June 2023

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Trying to breed the species in an aviary provided some disappointments, for example with regard to their nest-building abilities: “I don’t know what previous experience the birds had at nest construction, but their attempt was pretty pathetic” ( source ). I think I pointed out in previous posts that mammals are kind of evil.