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Birding Shanghai in May 2023 – Part 1

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During the breeding season, some Cattle Egrets look like teenage girls who have just discovered the existence of make-up, and consequently massively overdo it. But what do I know about the taste preferences of Cattle Egrets. It is probably all downhill from here. What’s next? Identification of subspecies?

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Some Good News In NJ Farm Animals Case

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The court upheld regulations permitting pig and calf confinement, the transport of ill and injured cattle, and force molting of birds. Department of Agriculture (NJDA) was ordered to readdress a number of its mandated standards for farmed animal treatment.

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Birding Shanghai in March 2023

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And here is the Collared Finchbill , who like me suffers from being less social than others. Which limits both its and my range expansion (though in my case, not having kids is an important additional factor). For fairly obvious reasons, the Northern Shoveler reminds me of the wide-mouth frog joke I heard as a kid.

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Protecting the Hyacinth Macaw and the Cerrado

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In the case of the acuri, the birds usually eat those kernels that have already fallen to the ground or that have been ruminated by cattle or wild animals, but they eat bocaiuva nuts straight off the bunches hanging from the trees. These macaws nest in existing holes in trees.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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This Cattle Egret has just read a paper stating that it would be 3.6 But maybe that is actually a good thing. According to Couzens, after laying the eggs, females sometimes immediately abandon their first mate and pair up with another male. Now comes my question: Which of the two categories described do you think this paper belongs to?

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J. J. C. Smart on the Moral Elite

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This last implies of course an improvement in ethics, as opposed to morality, as I have defined it, unless we already understand 'Do as you would be done by' as applicable to whales, cattle, chickens, and so on, as it is to human beings. Perhaps in order to qualify for a moral elite one should become a heroic vegetarian like Peter Singer.

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Henry S. Salt (1851-1939) on the Wastefulness of Meat-Eating

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It seems, generally speaking, that the foods which are the costliest in suffering are also the costliest in price, whereas the wholesome and harmless diet to which Nature points us is at once the cheapest and most humane.

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