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Birding Kangding, Sichuan

10,000 Birds

In Kangding, there is a rather opulent bird hide – two stories, solid construction, spacious, lots of glass, a separate paved parking lot, though mysteriously (and as far as I can tell from my experience of living in China for almost 20 years, not indicative of fundamentally different physical needs of Chinese people) missing a bathroom.

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Suburban Roadrunners of Southern Missouri

10,000 Birds

The farm roads nearby host roadrunners too , and the fencerows and pastures look slightly more appropriate for the species. I repeat, the sight of a roadrunner moseying around this neighborhood like a contented outdoor cat was a strange one. Did I make that clear? Roadrunners of suburbia. Who would have thought?

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Bird Migration and Conservation Meet at Selva Bananito, Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

Selva Bananito was actually founded in the seventies but back then, it was a sizeable farm like any other. However, some time between then and now, the children of the original farm owner convinced their father to leave the stands of primary forest alone, to let precious mahogany trees just be and keep on growing.

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On "EATING ANIMALS" by Jonathan Safran Foer

Animal Person

The good news is that if you know someone who needs to be schooled on all of the sordid details of factory farming, and appreciates good writing, this is a great book. Factory farming considers nature an obstacle to overcome" (34). Ever, in fact. But this plate also holds all of the animals that were killed for your serving of sushi.

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Birding in Costa Rica, Birding in Guatemala

10,000 Birds

The experience was one a long time in the waiting ever since I skipped over the highlands of Chiapas with a flight from the Yucatan to Costa Rica so many years ago. It calls like a weird, screaming mini-cat! Finally, I made it to the main gap in my birding life north of Colombia! Motmot a la blue throat.

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Flight to Freedom

4 The Love Of Animals

With these lions there were clear welfare and public safety issues, When dealing with lions there are not only welfare and public safety issues, we are therefore delighted to be working with PAWS who have enormous experience with big cats and a reputation for setting the highest standards in animal care.”.

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The Problem with Weight is NOT Losing It

4 The Love Of Animals

A resident of Bend, Oregon, McGee Bennett lives on a 10-acre farm with her husband, Brad, two dogs, two cats, five llamas, 11 alpacas, and super composting red wigglers, number unknown. Her animal training experience includes working with dogs, cats, horses, llamas, alpacas and camels.

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