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Duck Migration

10,000 Birds

Just think, if no one was there to document this, would it really have happened? in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea in future weeks.I OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! Were you and Jeff the only witnesses? What a spectacle indeed.

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A long way from nowhere

10,000 Birds

An individually marked Great Knot was seen in Roebuck Bay and then observed on the mudflats at Yalu Jiang Nature Reserve, China, 137 hours later! Broome Accommodation Mar 7th, 2011 at 7:50 pm A great post, thanks Clare, always great to see some of our local critters being documented. It was observed sleeping after the 6400kms trip.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

Compassion like that almost makes one think that we should start shooting the 1 billion humans on the brink of starvation to provide them quick and relatively painless deaths rather than slow protracted ones.] rather than a slow death from starvation." that slow us down and make us chronically ill.”