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Birding Shanghai in April 2022

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Webb who provided the species type to the British Museum and who collected birds in Shanghai around 1850, but about whom pretty much nothing else is known. Apparently, they were introduced in the Los Angeles area of California in 1917, and I really think they deserve living in L.A.

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In Search of the White Wagtail at Cabrillo Beach

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When a White Wagtail was found on 10 December at Cabrillo Beach in San Pedro, just south of Los Angeles, I was pretty stoked. After all, I would be arriving in southern California on 19 December, landing in Los Angeles at LAX, about thirty minutes from the site of the sighting.

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Sea Shepherd Busts Whale Meat Importer

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Today, according to Sea Shepherd Conservation Society, Ginichi Y Ohira was charged in Los Angeles federal court with selling whale meat in violation of the Federal Marine Mammal Protection Act. The Sea Shepherd Conservation Society had run a sting operation to collect evidence related to the serving of whale meat.

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Soon to be an Armchair ABA Tick – Nutmeg Mannikin in California

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The use of eBird data is interesting and it shows just how valuable the collected reports of birders can be in figuring out the status and distribution of species. Just check out the map showing Nutmeg Mannikin reports in Los Angeles and Orange Counties. The red markers are sightings in the last thirty days.

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The Sunda Teals of Jakarta

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However, the Sunda islands span over a large region, and if the teal’s range is projected onto North America, it covers the area between Los Angeles and the panhandle of Florida. Sunda Teals, showing a feeding behaviour called “collective suicide” while a Cave Swiftlet looks on.

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Red-crowned Parrots at Irvine Regional Park, Orange County, California

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Quite a few species are well-established and breeding from San Diego to Los Angeles and beyond. If you want to see more great galleries of birds check out 10,000 Clicks , our big and growing collection of gallery posts! ………. They are well worth going out of your way to see! …

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Tom Regan on the Animal-Rights Movement

Animal Ethics

To overcome the collective entropy of these forces-against-change will not be easy. But prejudices die hard, all the more so when, as in the present case, they are insulated by widespread secular customs and religious beliefs, sustained by large and powerful economic interests, and protected by the common law.