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Tri-colored Herons on the water front of La Paz.

10,000 Birds

These lovely birds are actually quite common, many of which can be seen right along the water front of down town La Paz. This blueish-gray bird has a bright white belly, and white stripe that runs up the front of the neck. The Bill will have a blue gray base during the breeding season. This one caught a nice fat salamander.

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SPECIESISM, by Joan Dunayer, Part Deux

Animal Person

intelligence, having a sense of past and future, having social ties, being a mammal or a bird). No living group of nonhuman animals--no existing species of invertebrate, fish, amphibian, reptile, bird or nonhuman mammal--is ancestral to humans. No frog, toad, or salamander ever was our forebear.