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Birding Shanghai in February 2023

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Maybe those should be protected too? Given that the Black Kite is politely described as an “opportunistic hunter” – which includes the fact that they are more likely to scavenge than most other raptors – the name choice of the company protecting the world’s cyber ecosystem is a bit weird.

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Should is not a Solution

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And embattled minority should be protected. People that are interested in conservation are all about the should – conservation’s raison d’ĂȘtre is the people perceiving that we should protect species and ecosystems, we should not allow them to be lost to extinction. A hungry child should be fed.

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Use it or lose it?

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During the decades that preceded the Iraq war there were two schools of view on how to deal with that country and its troublesome leader. And the last of the facts that I listed is rather an example why that support is, well, qualified. But by the same token, it isn’t necessarily a good idea either. Shot a rhino?

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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We worship birds, we hunt birds, we protect birds, and, yes, we eat birds. Larks, for example. Cocker presents Eurasian Larks as a prime example of one of the recurring themes of the book, our culture’s tendency to cherish a bird in poetry and myth and to simultaneously exploit, even ravish, the actual bird.

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The Feather Thief: A Book Review

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government (Johnson had worked in Iraq for USAID, where he learned about his friends and colleagues problems first-hand). The Flame Bowerbird, for example. Or, to keep the priceless feathers hidden away in drawers, protected in small plastic bags, prized in secret. Mostly adult males.