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Food

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That makes me a bit of an oddity here in China, where people share photos of their meals online and spend (by my rough estimate) about half of their lifetime talking and thinking about what to eat next. Little Egret: There is a shrimp farm by the seaside. Tiger Shrike. Cuckoo species (common?): Black-capped Kingfisher.

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India Reaches Out to Neighbors to Save Tigers

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They have been pretty frustrated with China, who really doesn't give a rip about tigers.unless they can raise them on farms for "medicinal" harvest and other capitalist pursuits. Tags: India poaching tigers china endangered species.

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Birding Shanghai in May

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A Tiger Shrike – as always – looks very stylish. Little Curlews are passing through Shanghai for a short time, taking the local sod farm as a surrogate for tundra. A cuckoo species with a sense of honor, being a non-parasitic cuckoo. A Grey Night Jar does what it does best – being almost invisible.

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2010 Declared the Year of the Tiger.So What?

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The Kathmandu Global Tiger Workshop declared 2010 to be the Year of the Tiger. The intention is to focus on saving the tiger species which is being decimated. When China won't support a ban on tiger farms, nor will it work to curb the ridiculous demand for tiger products in its own country, what's the point?

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Collaborative list – January 2020

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This shows the top birders, by species or checklists submitted. The year has started well with 10 new birds from India, China, Hawaii, Mexico and Costa Rica. 12 beats birded 10 countries (Costa Rica, USA, Brazil, China, India, Serbia, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Mexico), submitting 187 lists and spotting 902 birds.

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Collaborative List – November 2019

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Whatever it was, Corey was found at his keyboard 2 hours later, covered in blood and snot and sporting a cut lip, having announced that he and Mike would rescue the failing list by taking personal responsibility for adding 300 species. McArthur Swamp / Rat Farm. McArthur Swamp / Rat Farm. McArthur Swamp / Rat Farm.

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Collaborative list – February 2020

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9 beats visited 9 countries (China, Costa Rica, USA, UK, India, Australia, Jamaica , Serbia and Japan) and submitted 151 checklists when they got back. Fasciated Tiger-Heron – Tigrisoma fasciatum. Bare-throated Tiger-Heron – Tigrisoma mexicanum. Farm to Market 1017 (27.2142,-98.6229). Just me then?

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