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Birding Shanghai in March 2024

10,000 Birds

” Aren’t we all at least a little bit fascinated by psychology? Eurasian Sparrowhawk Based on one paper , one might recommend this female to breed in a city as apparently urban nesters have higher breeding success (though admittedly, that paper looked at rural vs. urban in Scotland, not China).

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Birding Shanghai in June 2023

10,000 Birds

Cattle Egrets are thoroughly modern birds – they were among the first species to ditch mailed letters for faxes, then switched to email early, and now (at least in China) mostly communicate by WeChat. So, I can always show some photos of the species, even if I have nothing new to say about them. It sometimes looks a bit risky though.

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On Radical Abolitionism and Guilt

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And I don't think that converting one person at a time to veganism via my spectacular baking or my blogging is going to make up for the people of China and India rapidly increasing their consumption of animals.

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