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Birding Shanghai in October 2023

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Would somebody please write a comment stating that I could have a great future in writing romance novels?) The Grey Nightjar is not really affected by real estate prices (always an important topic in China) as it does not build a nest – the eggs are simply laid on leaf litter or bare ground. But she loves him anyway.

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If your cat or dog is having a litter, is it ok to keep most or a considerable part of the puppies if you have the conditions, or is there risk of inbreeding in the future?

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I tried to search the internet for that and for people who raise pets in farms, ranchs, etc, could never find a good answer about how it goes if you keep your pet's entire group of children together with the parent(s) and don't give them away.

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The Bird Way: A Book Review

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There is a lot of extreme behavior here (and a lot of that behavior takes place in Australia), but this is not simply a collection of the world’s most fantastic bird tales. .’

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Asia’s Deadliest Bird: The Brown Prinia

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Chances are that a future split will therefore not give birders an armchair tick but a painful gap on their list for an area they have already visited and hadn’t planned on visiting again.

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Nothing Funny About Cat Cruelty

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We seem to find hours of amusement online thanks to cats, in fact I have often joked that many years in the future our generation will be known for worshiping cats. Soiling or urinating outside of the litter box. Hiding, often for days on end. Suddenly freezing in place.

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Review: The Moral Lives of Animals by Dale Peterson

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Unfortunately, by the nature of the problem, the history of the young field is littered with examples of researchers allowing their subconscious biases — or worse, their conscious ones — to influence how they read the data.

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Second Atlas of Breeding Birds in Pennsylvania: A Review by an Atlas Novice

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It turns out that the reclaimed mines work well as habitat for the sparrow because they collect a layer of leaf litter, a key nesting requirement. I was particularly sad to see the decline of Henslow’s Sparrow, a bird I saw for the first time in the reclaimed surface mine grasslands of western Pennsylvania.