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Flock to Marion

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These two islands are about halfway between the tip of South Africa and Antarctica in the Subantarctic Indian Ocean, have had relatively few human visitors, and are primarily inhabited with some of the rarest seabirds in the world and a smaller number of mammals. Which makes it a haven for seabirds….and and seabirders.

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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)

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Barn Swallows are a bit unhappy with their image as restless aerial hunters and would like to gain a more stately and dignified profile. The researchers are quite aware of the differences between humans and birds and thus have completely ignored another explanation for this behavior. Accessorizing for birds. ” ( source ).

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A “Thank You” is All You Need

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Over a few obstacles, we follow the dirt track into an abandoned and overgrown claypit. Although quite a few species will have a second brood ( European Starlings among them), in the lowlands, mid-June is the end of the breeding season for many small passerines. Yet, Starlings cannot dig and are happy to use abandoned cavities.

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

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Minus that role, the term implies, such an animal has no place; if they aren't some human's companion, or their companionship fails to please, they can be abandoned or killed" (8). Through semantic reversal, fishers (like hunters) pretend to promote rather than destroy life" (67). I could go on and on.

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