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Birding Shanghai in October 2023

10,000 Birds

Of course, that means that the birds I saw on September 30 are now somewhere in blogpost limbo, not having appeared in the September post but also not legitimately belonging in the October one. After this longish and completely irrelevant introduction, finally here is a photo of the first bird of September 30th, a Black-winged Cuckoo Shrike.

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

After publishing my stories I got emails from people all over the world who had seen similar behavior in various birds and mammals. to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry. Empathy Among Elephants. They were brought separately to the Elephant Sanctuary in Hohenwald, Tenn.,

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Birding Gunung Gede on a weekend without suffering a mental break-down, part 1

10,000 Birds

Gunung Gede Pangrango National Park, which comprises the twin volcanoes Gede and Pangrango (with gunung meaning “mountain”), surely must rate as one of the birding highlights of Southeast Asia, and is arguably the most important and well-known birding site on the island of Java. Allow for at least three days if you can.

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