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Birding Sukau, Sabah, Borneo

10,000 Birds

They look crap but presumably offer some protection for the chicks, though not from each other (see the murderous activities within the nests in my previous post ). Not sure why they spend time in Shanghai in winter when they could come here though, but then again, I usually do not understand most of the behavior of humans either.

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COMMENTS ON COLLECTING BIRDS: A Reply

10,000 Birds

Says the prosecution to this: “Can a dead bird educate the researcher on its song? Only once we’ve seen the pretrial condemnation do we get to see the way Linda considered his case, and it’s astonishing and, I am sad to note, dishonest. You see, the bird was collected for scientific study. Or how gracefully it flew?