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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

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It is a bit worrying that while the Basel Zoo is listed by Google as having a page on the Red-tailed Laughingthrush , that page itself does not seem to exist anymore, and the species is not listed among the inhabitants of the aviary of the zoo. His obituary was published in Nature. ” ( source ).

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Bird Butts and Other Matters

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The local Bald Eagles are getting busy, I suspect there is an egg in the nest. The new rankings will be used in a major conservation initiative called the Edge of Existence program at the London Zoo. All I see are their buts. I’ve seen some interesting terns, and it is possible that I saw a small flock of migrating Bonaparte’s Gulls.

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When conservation and animal rights collide

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If you like animals you will generally not want them to suffer and you won’t want them to go extinct. Animal rights is concerned with preventing the suffering or even use of animals by humans. Each year tens of thousands of these gulls go to the islands and each pair will lay three eggs.