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“The (Big) Year that Flew By: Twelve Months, Six Continents, and the Ultimate Birding Record”

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At that time Arjan had a brief visit to his homeland, the Netherlands, which boosted his morale, but also offered a chance to repack his backpack: “After three months of nonstop travel, I know exactly what is unnecessary and what is lacking. Slowly but surely, I start to realize that breaking the world record could become a reality.”

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Water, Water, Everywhere

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Black-bellied Plover on the left, collection of Peeps on the right. The moral of the story? The former are supposed to fly south only to and along Mexico’s coasts, while the latter should barely reach this far south strictly along the Mexican coast for the winter. Most winter in the U.S. and Canada).

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 12 of 13

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For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. As far as I know, no good evidence has ever been collected to support or refute (1). People who do not eat meat for moral reasons tend to be less brutal than people who do eat meat. But Hitler was also a vegetarian.

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Birds and Us: A 12,000 Year History from Cave Art to Conservation–A Book Review

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The Index lists names, places, birds (by complete common name), and most of the book’s subjects (conservation, cruelty, extinction, morality, but ‘god’ is limited to animal gods).

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Osprey Cam

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It’s always risky to say what separates humans from other animals — tool use, self-awareness, and the perception of morality no longer being as obvious a set of distinctions as they once were – but I will go out on a limb and say that narrative is at least as characteristic of humans as feathers are of birds.

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Aelian’s On The Nature Of Animals: The Classics Can Be Fun!

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Despite the last group, this is not merely a collection of just-so stories. A subject that Aelian returns to again and again is the still-contentious issue of the animal mind , and to what degree the creatures he describes can be accurately said to learn, reason, and have morals.

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Tom Regan on the Animal-Rights Movement

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To overcome the collective entropy of these forces-against-change will not be easy. Moral philosophy is no substitute for political action. It is simply projustice, insisting only that the scope of justice be seen to include respect for the rights of animals. The animal rights movement is not for the faint of heart.