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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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Where it is not – for example, in Japan – it will have difficulties finding a partner to mate. This Cattle Egret has just read a paper stating that it would be 3.6 I am not sure whether it is ok to use the word “slut” My guess is it is not). Of course, on Chongming, the Chinese Pond Heron is very common.

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The Amazing Exploding Dove Meets Montana

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We remember starlings not skylarks, House Sparrows not Eurasian Tree Sparrows , Cattle Egrets not… well, whatever we’ve forgotten because it didn’t do as well as the Cattle Egrets. It’s just that the exceptions are so much more attention-grabbing. And after all, some birds have to expand their range sometimes.

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

No wonder rBGH has been banned in Europe, Canada, Japan, Australia and New Zealand. June 29, 2007 The writers are cattle ranchers. There is as yet no medical research showing the cost of several extra years of hormones flooding the system. Increasing rBST milk would just move food production in the wrong direction.

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Collaborative List – March 2018

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During March, 11 beats shared 122 checklists to accumulate 680 species from 8 countries; USA, Costa Rica, Serbia, India, Australia, New Zealand, UK and Japan. Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Hopland Research and Extension Center (restricted access). Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis.

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Birding Shanghai in May 2023 – Part 2

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Well, yes, if you phrase it as if it is, such as in this paper titled “Marine and terrestrial food chain links” In another paper , Large-billed Crows in Japan were made to listen to either the Japanese language or the Dutch language. of researchers looking for chemical contaminants in the environment.

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