10,000 Birds

JUNE 6, 2022

Taking the famous statement that Mao was 70% right, 30% wrong (Deng Xiaoping), his decision regarding sparrows certainly falls under the second category.

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Animal Person

JANUARY 27, 2010

If you don't have to enslave, rape, dominate, or kill someone (or have someone else do it for you), why would you? Let's deconstruct: Legal experts in China are proposing a ban on the eating of dogs and cats. He often has insight into why something might be different in action than what I think in theory when it comes to China.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 6, 2011

The call was issued after the animal rights group discovered that the fur were sourced from the raccoon dog in China, ABC Radio Australia reports. About 10 million dogs in China are killed for their fur, prompting an animal rights group to seek a ban on fur trade to Australia.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Officials say the sales have fuelled demand for ivory in Asian countries, especially China, contributing to a sharp increase in elephant poaching. So far this year poachers in Kenya have killed 128 elephants for their ivory; last year 98 were killed. Tags: wildlife crime ivory africa Kenya china asia elephants traf.

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Critter News

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Only from China could you get TWO atrocities in one. Not only did tainted milk kill 1,500 raccoon dogs (they really look like raccoons), but these dogs were being raised for their FUR! Tags: fur china food.

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Animal Person

JUNE 3, 2009

I did know that such companies steal water (and oil) from local people in other countries, promising them improved access or health or housing, and I did know of the very, very dark side of dams (particularly the Three Gorges Dam in China, with its environmental ravaging and displacing of over a million people). Drink Tap Water!

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 22, 2015

In a news report from 2009, the DNA quoted a senior Forest Department official who feared that the poachers must have killed around 20 tigers in the region in just five months. Earlier, a large number of villagers were being killed by tigers: 11 in 2006, 13 in 2007 and more than 26 during 2008.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 21, 2015

China used H5N2 inactivated vaccine to prevent spread of H5N1 strain highly infectious bird flu virus and that has proved to be effective, an official with the Ministry of Agriculture (MOA) said on Tuesday. Will H5N2 Kill Wild Birds? They also have made progress in developing H5N1 fowlpox vaccine. So, what about wild birds?

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

" Dog Days in China " is a small piece with no gruesome slideshow. There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. My bout of anguish began a few weeks back on a wintry night in central China, in the restless megalopolis of Chongqing. But I’m happy China eats dog."

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

Chris from Beijing wasn't able to comment (Animal Person is blocked in China) but he did write me to say he looks forward to Jonathan Safran Foer's sequel to Eating Animals. In fact, both books glorify small farms (though Foer is more selective), and both have the support of people who create and kill animals. Not Eating Animals.

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4 The Love Of Animals

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

It is extremely difficult for female pandas to reproduce in captivity, but the city of Chengdu in central China has become the worldwide epicenter for panda reproduction. The giant panda is one of the world’s most iconic species, but its population numbers are critically low. Meanwhile, at Whipsnade Zoo in the U.K.,

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2021

As we’d just eaten our breakfast with the blackbirds, Katherine and I had some time to kill before our next meal. After lunch, we were back on the road again, racing back south on California Highway 1 with “China Cat Sunflower” blasting on the car stereo. I hope it won’t be the last time.

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Animal Person

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

When we left off , the New York Times' Roger Cohen had eaten dog while in China, and wasn't thrilled about it emotionally. He writes: There is a rational, and for some people a spiritual, case for being a vegetarian: Killing animals is wrong. Logically, he admits it does make perfect sense to eat dogs if you eat pigs and cows.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 5, 2018

The last beaver in the area was killed ten miles to the east – near Pancevo around the year 1900, but, reintroduced some dozen years ago, there are some 150 of them in the country nowadays. Whenever I pushed my paddle lower, I had the impression that there is no water and that I paddle on and though the mist, timeless and eternal.

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Animal Person

AUGUST 16, 2009

Here's the letter from Chris of Furisevil to HSUS: Dear HSUS, Like the raccoon dogs just a few miles from me, in cages awaiting to be killed, I cannot afford to wait for HSUS to do something. link] If Markarian cares about the fur animals of China, he could easily demand that HP stop selling fur on his blog.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 3, 2014

Yangtze River Dolphin in captivity, 1988, Wuhan, China, p. Ironically, the bird in the photograph served as the model for the bird in the lithograph; it was killed, skinned, preserved and stuffed a few days after the photograph was taken. ouli, and Mamo (also known as Hawaii Mamo). These are not the words of a scientist.

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Animal Person

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations. When I was asked if I wanted to read Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS (Rodale 2009) I was ambivalent. I know he's a conservationist, therefore I know he will advocate for "managing" the "resources" that are sentient nonhumans.

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10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Shanghaibirding describes the Brown-headed Thrush as “a scarce passage migrant through northern and central coastal China, including Shanghai” – given that I only saw it once on Tianmashan, that is probably correct, though the date (January 09) seems rather late for a migrant. You pervert.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 10, 2016

We have seen Peregrine Falcons fly through circling flocks of shorebirds and Brown Goshawks attempt a kill, but generally they are able to escape by their constant circling. The shorebirds need to consume as much as they can before they set off north with their next stop likely to be several days later in Taiwan or China.

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Animal Ethics

AUGUST 22, 2007

To the Editor: Re “ Virus Spreading Alarm and Deadly Pig Disease in China ” (Business Day, Aug. Indeed, if public sympathy is changing in China regarding how we treat animals raised and killed for food, as it is here in the United States, then we can only expect future improvements in the welfare of farm animals. 16, 2007

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Animal Ethics

NOVEMBER 6, 2009

So here is an even more modest proposal than roasting Fido: Try eating only what animals you are willing to kill with your own hands. At one point during my year living in China, I ate dog. Beyond the environmental impacts of meat production there is a basic ethical issue involved. Howland Northport, N.Y.

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10,000 Birds

APRIL 6, 2021

The book is organized into ten chapters, framed by a Prologue and Epilogue focused on Weidensaul’s banding experience in Denali National Park. Climate change looms large over all migration research, it “is reshaping every single thing about migration” (p.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2022

On the other hand, for every disturbed Nanhui, there are probably at least 10 coastal places in China that are completely undisturbed, so it all evens out. It seems that at Nanhui, somebody is trying to kill even more than 2 bird(s) (species) with one stone (to be more accurate, not a single stone but a massive amount of concrete).

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2018

A foot deep by some accounts, it killed what life was left in the forest. Restoration of the Yi qi dinosaur from the late Jurassic era, China, by Emily Willoughby, used under Creative Commons license. And, then there were the droppings. Fires would erupt after the pigeons came through. And, I’m sure the smell was not wonderful.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 15, 2024

The Varied Tit is a rare species in Shanghai – this was the first time I ever saw one, even though it is relatively common further North in China. Of course, Donald Trump would have pulled out the Great Tit chick and killed it instantly. That is the kind of altruistic behavior we at 10,000 Birds appreciate.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 10, 2013

We did have the good fortune of finding an individually marked Bar-tailed Godwit that was marked in Yalu Jiang Nature Reserve in China last April 15th and was last seen there on May 11th 2012. Sadly we did see a lot of road kill and no doubt a result of people driving at night. It appears to work very well and the birds were relaxed.

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10,000 Birds

MARCH 20, 2023

In Kangding, there is a rather opulent bird hide – two stories, solid construction, spacious, lots of glass, a separate paved parking lot, though mysteriously (and as far as I can tell from my experience of living in China for almost 20 years, not indicative of fundamentally different physical needs of Chinese people) missing a bathroom.

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10,000 Birds

MAY 1, 2023

Evil people in Southern China catch the bird and eat it. The captor monkey killed the bird … by biting off its head” Eurasian Woodcocks are much more likely to be killed by humans than by snub-nosed monkeys. In fact, websites such as this one seem to offer package tours just to kill woodcocks.

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10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

The White-shouldered Starling is not very common in Shanghai or even in China in general, despite its species name sinensis. I guess you cannot be too choosy while traveling, as I have learned when on trips in Ecuador and other places.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2024

I was thinking of inventing a background story about a Chinese poet mentioning starlings (and other bird species) in one of his poems, and a rich Chinese fan of these poems pursuing the ambition of introducing all bird species mentioned therein to China, explaining the occasional occurrence of the starling in Shanghai.

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2022

The Light-vented Bulbul used to be restricted to Southern China but has expanded its range in the past few decades. According to the HBW, the Chinese Grosbeak is “widely trapped for the cagebird trade in China” Shame on the trappers. We never forget that you, the reader, have a choice. Most likely, this is a Common Cuckoo.

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 23, 2006

He clearly thinks that it is wrong to cause animals to suffer unnecessarily, but he appears to be somewhat ambivalent about killing animals (provided the killing is carried out humanely). However, the above rationalization does not directly address the issue of contributing to the unnecessary killing of a conscious sentient being.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2023

Different from many other parasitic cuckoos, the chick typically does not kill all its nest mates, though one or two of them may die from starvation. The Lesser Coucal has a characteristic vocalization that can be heard in this video (along with the usual China-typical background noise – China is not a quiet place in general).

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Animal Ethics

DECEMBER 24, 2006

But when HSUS purchased several of these jackets, the jackets arrived bearing the labels "Made in China" and "genuine raccoon fur." One of the questions on the survey is: "Is it morally permissible to kill animals for fur coats?" Just how do Chinese workers kill raccoon dogs?" Not according to my students. you might wonder.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 8, 2024

Coming from crowded China, it seems incredible to have such a spectacular sight to one’s own … … free to explore every single watchtower. Arrival in Bamiyan, the provincial capital The main attraction of Bamiyan now is something that is no longer there. Another fortified city even closer to Bamiyan, Shar-e Gholghola.

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10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A study found that for Plain Prinia , egg characteristics in a mainland China location with many cuckoos make it much easier to spot cuckoo eggs than in a Taiwan location with few cuckoos ( source ). For those who think evolution is a wrong theory, these differences may well have been created by god.

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10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

For example, without this blog, would you know that the Barn Swallows of Nanhui are now having their own housing boom, ignorant of the overinvestment that has characterized China’s construction industry? As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. Nest building: a good activity for a rainy day.

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