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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. Like many humans, it is presumed to be monogamous (source: HBW). Another pigeon at Tanjung Aru beach is the Pink-necked Green Pigeon.

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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

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Fast food containers are popular. “An “Almost restores your faith in humanity!” “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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Southwest Primate Center "Celebrates" 10 Years

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By destroying the health of baboons with fast food. Fast food is bad for you? This place is celebrating its 10th year with ground-breaking research into what makes us all fat. The baboons tended to guzzle several liters of the stuff with their meals.

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Birding Shanghai in May 2023 – Part 1

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The bird on the photo is one of the estimated 3500-15,000 individuals still alive according to the HBW – a frightening thought given the (too) large number of humans, of which there are about 1 million times more (and of course, each of which weighs 5000 times more than the flycatcher).

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A Guide to Parking Lot Birds of the Southeast

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Every part of the world has it’s suite of parking lot staples, those urbanish species that seem to prefer to linger about humanity subsisting in no small amount to the magnanimity, or more likely the laziness, of humankind. And in parts of the Rockies, Clark’s Nutcracker reigns supreme.

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Twitching a Gray Kingbird in New York

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Well, it was beautiful to humans in those conditions but apparently not for a kingbird, which took advantage of the break in the cool and rainy conditions to skedaddle. The long drive back to New York was filled by more lousy, incidental eBird checklists, more fast food, and more road kill. All was not lost though.

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Deconstructing Spencer's Comment

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It's an especially ridiculous concept because the vegans in modern western society would not be able to maintain their living standards without the exploitation of dirt-poor humans in third world countries across the globe. We are not ignorant of the exploitation of humans that often goes hand-in-hand with the exploitation of nonhumans.

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