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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)

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Barn Swallows are a bit unhappy with their image as restless aerial hunters and would like to gain a more stately and dignified profile. In Singapore, a Tiger Shrike was observed casting a pellet after eating a large scarab beetle. The Brown Crake is not that easy to see in Shanghai even though it is breeding here.

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On ANIMAL EQUALITY, by Joan Dunayer

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Through semantic reversal, fishers (like hunters) pretend to promote rather than destroy life" (67). Two tigers confined to a cage gave 'freedom' from enemies. However young and healthy, captives judged inappropriate for exhibition or breeding are considered 'excess' and usually are 'unloaded' or killed.

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Owls of the Eastern Ice: A Quest to Find and Save the World’s Largest Owl–A Book Review

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Slaght’s goals are simple: learn how to find Blakiston’s Fish Owls, find them, attach transmitters, track them, collect data, use the data to map out which parts of Primorye are most important to their feeding and breeding, develop a conservation plan. This wouldn’t just be a conservation plan for fish owls.

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Dreaming of Congo rainforest: Gabon, Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic

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Ba’Aka people are among the most well-known representatives of an ancient hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Some of the birds living around the lodge include Plumed Guineafowl , Grey-throated Rail , Lyre-tailed Honeyguide and Sangha Forest Robin (a subspecies of the Forest Robin), as well as breeding Grey-necked Rockfowl.