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Broome’s Pied Oystercatchers are breeding again

10,000 Birds

I have also learnt to not count my chickens before they hatch. The adults always warn the young of an intruder anyway, so I walk away content in the knowledge that they have informed them to hunker down. Pied Oystercatchers around Broome always lead you away from their nest sites or their chicks whether you are human or a dog.

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How to ‘treat’ your cat right

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By and large, human food does not make good cat treats, although there are a few things that are suitable if prepared with care. Never give cats chocolate, for example, and always use only small portions of tuna, liver or chicken if concocting little cat crackers or other types of kitty treats. Choosing cat treats. Temptations treats.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

10,000 Birds

They took dogs to Australia, chickens across the Pacific, rabbits to England, horses to the New World, and then brought potatoes back. A housecat in Buenos Aires got its start in Africa, a sheep in Australia to the Middle East, a chicken in Ireland can trace its origin to the jungles of Asia. But hedgehogs? Greenfinches?

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Hal Herzog's "Some We Love, Some We Hate, Some We Eat"

Animal Person

The bottom line is that there are many reasons why human-animal interactions are so often inconsistent and paradoxical. Thousands of studies have demonstrated that human thinking about nearly everything is surprisingly irrational” (65). . Much of the book deals with topics vegans have likely pondered, likely frequently.

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Birding Shanghai in December 2021

10,000 Birds

eBird states that White Wagtails are “usually seen as singles, pairs, or small groups”, which seems a sentence rather devoid of any information content. Whenever I find a good spot to see Reed Parrotbill at Nanhui, I can be pretty sure that there will be some human activity within the next three months that will destroy this site.

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The Gap Between Wildlife and the Animal Rights Movement

10,000 Birds

Excuse the sudden and random departure from the typical self-aggrandizing and narcissistic ornithophilic content. It seems that these people, who purport to claim to care so much about animals, are completely ignorant of the existence of any animal life beyond horses, cows, pigs, chickens and turkeys. That will return next month.

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The One Animal Product You Should Feed Your Children

Animal Ethics

According to Dr. Spock: Most families have become more conscious about the fat content of meats, and many are choosing the lower-fat cuts. Unfortunately, switching from red meat to chicken does not help very much. Researchers have also learned that the cancer-causing chemicals that form in beef as it cooks also tend to form in chicken.

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