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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

10,000 Birds

Like fast food, but free and likely more healthy. But then, I am not a hunter, and do not understand them either). There, the spoonbills (along with egrets, redshanks, and others) then just wait at the end of the hose, watching for fish being pumped onto the field.

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The Kerkini Lake, Greece: Dipped One, Got One

10,000 Birds

At first, the road is paved, but as soon as the tarmac ends, the tracks become decorated by hunters in orange vests. The soil is disturbed by foraging boars (and there is not a single shot from those hunters). Eurasian Spoonbills are foraging, some of them literally running through the water chasing some fast food.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

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.