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Autumn colours

10,000 Birds

This year will be tough on many birds as further mudflat destruction to construct factories in China means that they may not be able to feed in areas that they have known in the past. We receive some beautiful photos from China of individually marked shorebirds on migration each year as they travel through the Flyway.

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Orange-headed Thrush

10,000 Birds

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! Note that the lighter markings around the face and throat are undefined and subdued. In the Z.c. cyonotus race. Thanks for visiting!

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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. We jumped into our rented SUV Jeep Compass for a trip of 6 days. At that time, China was strictly applying the zero COVID-19 policy. On February 3, our plane landed in Nanning.

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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! We relocated it to a native tree, so it was better camouflaged and protected. It was observed sleeping after the 6400kms trip. Get yours today! Thanks for visiting!

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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.”