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What makes a good bird guide?

10,000 Birds

Joining some travelling birders FB group, I’ve read a long list of dos and don’ts. I am not dissatisfied with guides who do not manage to find the target bird, if they do try with all their heart. I am not dissatisfied with guides who do not manage to find the target bird, if they do try with all their heart.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Animals raised for food suffer miserably. After time in the Marines, I veered strongly away from eating creatures, thinking of their suffering. In my 40s, I became a vegetarian because I was saving sick and injured birds, and I just couldn’t eat them and save them. I still have the same six-pack stomach I had in the Marines.