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Duck Migration

10,000 Birds

I have had similar experiences at Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge and you are so right on when you say “am I ever glad that I am a birder!&# It was a great experience. in China, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Korea in future weeks.I Just think, if no one was there to document this, would it really have happened?

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Orange-headed Thrush

10,000 Birds

Informed literature bears out my experience that most birds are seen singly or in pairs. melli is the Hong Kong form that visits during the winter from southern China. OpticsPlanet - Great prices on binoculars for birding , spotting scopes , telescopes , flashlights , compasses & more! The former British colony’s Z.c.

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Locked in Guangxi: An epidemic adventure, searching for birds

10,000 Birds

For the Chinese New Year 2022 holidays, my girlfriend and I decided to visit the remote areas of Guangxi in the South of China, at the border to Vietnam. A that point in time, I could not imagine the adventure that I was going to experience and how birds would have rescued me. On February 3, our plane landed in Nanning.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

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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."