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Autumn colours

10,000 Birds

This year will be tough on many birds as further mudflat destruction to construct factories in China means that they may not be able to feed in areas that they have known in the past. Hat-tip to Stella. This week has seen the first flocks of Eastern Curlew and Greater Sand Plover head out over Roebuck Bay on dusk. Wicked, right?

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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

Even “factory” agriculture has its limits. And it is not just at the slaughterhouses but at the factory farms where these animals are tortured from the very beginning of their lives to the horrible end. Peters Paso Robles, Calif., Thomas Richard Concord, N.H., 21, 2008