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What’s in a Name?

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It notes that there are around 1,000 people who have had birds named after them, but no fewer than three of them – Frank Linsly James, Eugenio Prince Ruspoli and Johan August Wahlberg – were killed by elephants, not a common form of death. Eleonora’s Falcons still breed on Sardinia today.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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There was a breeding pair at Binjiang Forest Park this June. This allows you to watch birds (well, at least those that are not too noise sensitive) while not having to suffer their sounds. Similarly, the Yellow-rumped Flycatcher is the White-browed Flycatcher in Chinese. Not going for the obvious either. Sometimes it works.

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Climate Change and Birds

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Their remarkable survival skills, evolved over thousands of years, rely on a chain of stopover feeding grounds and habitats for breeding and raising young – but break any one link and the survival of the entire species is threatened. I.e., will a lack of, or reduced, winter kill-offs of parasites affect these birds? ” GL: Aha.

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On Going Vegan

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Of course, as a result, "ethical meat" becomes an option unless one realizes that killing when you don't need to is killing when you don't need to, no matter if it occurs in a slaughterhouse or in a mobile slaughter operation or in a backyard. If you want to reduce suffering, there are indeed ways to do that.

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On Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS

Animal Person

And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations. This is irksome, as the premise is that we need to save the animals (and which ones is an interesting discussion) because we will suffer if they are gone. This is all very unveganly, but I went for it nevertheless.