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Birding a monastery: Zhaga, Western Sichuan

10,000 Birds

So, maybe not be the best place to visit for monks suffering from depression. Maybe these people like challenges – at least here at the monastery, getting good shots of this species is quite easy. Another species apparently enjoying the proximity of a monastery is the White-winged Grosbeak.

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On Jeff Corwin's 100 HEARTBEATS

Animal Person

And managing means killing them, breeding them, and otherwise fiddling with their populations. It has entertaining stories, includes animals people care about because they like them (and also addresses that concept), and it describes how the numbers of various species decreased to the point of being classified as "endangered" or worse.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 4 of 13

Animal Ethics

These people abstain from eggs and dairy products the production of which involves suffering for the animals. To avoid this complication, Martin should have stipulated that no suffering is involved in the production of animal legs. Suffering is more than pain. Think of the suffering involved in solitary confinement.

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Birding Tabin, Sabah, Borneo

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Sometimes I just want to hug eBird, or more specifically, whoever writes the short species descriptions (even though I am not the typical hugging kind of person, trust me on this). There are about 50 different species of flowerpeckers globally. If these are taken off, the species looks just like Clark Kent. “Dull, me?

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The Emotional Lives of Animals

4 The Love Of Animals

I also watched a red fox bury her mate after a cougar had killed him. to live out their lives in peace, absent the abuse they had suffered in the entertainment industry. By definition, it’s a feeling that one tries to hide. Stories about animals rescuing members of their own and other species, including humans, abound.

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Birding Shanghai in April 2023

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In Alaska, they were found to mimic 30 different species ( source ). Maybe they have decided to boycott species with Russian-sounding names as a way to protest against Putin’s policies. If you are suffering from depression, you just have found another reason to go birding. days) than in autumn average 3.4

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Birding Shanghai in August 2022

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I think there is a potential joke somewhere in a person saying in an exaggerated French accent “I have no egrets” (try imagining the French accent please, otherwise this is definitely not funny. The species that prevented the month from being really boring was the Amur Paradise Flycatcher.

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