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Nanhui, Shanghai in August

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This can mean some interesting birding, if you can bear the Shanghai heat … Of course, the egrets and herons described in my last post are still around. Cattle Egret … though some of them seem to want to hide (which is really difficult for a white bird). Some cuckoo species.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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.” And after separating all the parts of the boluses and presumably weighing them, your conclusion would have been that “the most regularly occurring food items recorded are fish (63%) and insects (33%)” (the other 4% are the few remaining bits of chocolate and gummy bears brought to the chicks by their grandparents.

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Collaborative List – October 2019

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Airport Golf Course, Ajo, Arizona, US (32.452, -112.85). Airport Golf Course, Ajo, Arizona, US (32.452, -112.85). Airport Golf Course, Ajo, Arizona, US (32.452, -112.85). Airport Golf Course, Ajo, Arizona, US (32.452, -112.85). Airport Golf Course, Ajo, Arizona, US (32.452, -112.85). Bear Grass Tank.

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White-faced Herons

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Other members of the family include the huge Australasian Bittern (a species I have yet to see), the coastal Eastern Reef Egret (hardly difficult since it’s habitat requirements are basically “an island in the Pacific”), and of course the Cattle Egret. It wasn’t always this way.

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“Condors over Cologne” – Rogue Ales & Spirits: Condor Kolsch

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Beset by poaching by cattle ranchers, habitat loss, DDT, and lead poisoning (from consuming shotgun pellets embedded in the condor’s carrion fare), populations of this enormous New World vulture fell into a serious decline in the twentieth century. With enough room for another, of course.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 3 of 13

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If beef cattle who could not feel pain were developed, then it would be permissible to eat them. KBJ: Martin seems to think that people who abstain from meat on the ground that meat-eating causes pain would not eat “beef cattle” even if they could not feel pain. Martin has imagined not human vegetables, but cow vegetables!

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Birding Nabang, Yunnan (1)

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. “In a fairground in the middle of Paris You tried to prove to me your manliness By winning me a teddy bear” or. The richest Cattle Egrets in Nabang own more than 50 animals each and guard them carefully. Below is either a Bianchi’s Warbler or a Marten’s Warbler. Not a very photographer-friendly bird though.