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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

Animal Person

A handful Animal Person readers since May of 2006, when I started this then-daily blog, have asked me if I've read Joan Dunayer. Through semantic reversal, fishers (like hunters) pretend to promote rather than destroy life" (67). Each year, 'food animals' suffer and die by the billions, but they do so one by one.

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The Kerkini Lake, Greece: Dipped One, Got One

10,000 Birds

At first, the road is paved, but as soon as the tarmac ends, the tracks become decorated by hunters in orange vests. The soil is disturbed by foraging boars (and there is not a single shot from those hunters). I am… mesmerised by the mountain. One Grey-headed Woodpecker flies across the road – a promising start.

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Birding Shanghai in April 2024 (The Colors of Spring)

10,000 Birds

In 2006, some Russian authors described a new subspecies (nechaevi) with some vital differences from the ones previously described: “The second primary feather of L. nechaevi is not shorter than the 6th primary feather. Unfortunately, my photo does not illustrate this at all.

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