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Birding Chongming Island in summer

10,000 Birds

I once had a cat who loved to lick plastic bags, and while I find the pleasure in this hard to comprehend, it still seems more understandable to me than the joy (?) of catching extremely small fish. .” This is ok as birds do not have teeth anyway). Chinese Pond Herons also grow on trees.

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Licking Clay: the Macaws of Tambopata, Peru

10,000 Birds

The crowd of macaws is soon joined by parrots arriving as if on cue and bearing their colorfully named body parts: Yellow-crowned , Blue-headed , White-bellied , Orange-cheeked , and Mealy – followed by two species of parakeets – Dusky-headed and White-eyed. Volunteers are one of the most important aspects to the project. Wicked, right?

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Animal Companions

Animal Ethics

Here are three paragraphs from a recent essay by Roger Scruton : As I suggested, science provides authority for this weird morality only when clothed in moral doctrine. Scruton appears to be saying that it’s selfish, or self-indulgent, to live with, love, and provide for dogs, cats, birds, and other animals.

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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 1)

10,000 Birds

Please bear with us while this update takes place.” ” Been bearing with them for quite a while now. One of my cats claims that the males taste better than the females (“too sour”), but then that cat has told me many lies before – I still think it more likely it has never eaten any minivet in its life.

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