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Birding Tanjung Aru Beach, Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia

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However, it is only a short taxi ride away from the airport where most travelers will arrive at – better to see birds instead of just eating fast food while waiting for a connecting flight. While birds have developed one way of dealing with gravity, flying, other animals have found different ways, for example, just ignoring it.

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Birding Balangshan, Sichuan, China (part 1)

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This blue is not a pigment but rather a “structural color”, something I am too lazy to write about now but which has been explained nicely before, for example here. The chicks do their usual thing of just being pesky and clamoring for food … … mostly successfully.

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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

10,000 Birds

Fast food containers are popular. “An Here’s a sad example of where logic failed. “Two wildlife biologists brought me a Golden Eagle inside a metal pipe.” wrote Debbie Souza-Pappas in Utah. They were out in the field doing surveys and they found him. What are the odds? They had nothing else to put him in.”.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

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For example, I could recommend that you read the story above in its original German language as the “subtleties of Kafka’s mastery of the language are not fully covered in the translation”). Like fast food, but free and likely more healthy. I just want to point out it could be much worse.

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Don’t Feed The Birds!

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Let’s say you’re at a fast food restaurant and you have a few french fries left over and a gull is eagerly staring at you and the fries. For example, there is a woman that drives into my neighborhood and leaves a heap of rice, bread, and other assorted food on a street corner regularly.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

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Over 95% of all animals raised for food in the U.S. Rest assured that if you are purchasing meat from your favorite fast food restaurant, your favorite sit-down chain restaurant, or your local grocery store, you are purchasing the flesh of a tortured animal. are raised in cruel, inhumane factory farms.