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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

10,000 Birds

This is partly due to hunting in China, where about 90% of the species winter (HBW). Like fast food, but free and likely more healthy. But then, I am not a hunter, and do not understand them either). And it does not even live in reeds. A Yellow-throated Bunting enjoying a sunny morning in the reedbeds of Nanhui.

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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. It’s the boar hunting season. The soil is disturbed by foraging boars (and there is not a single shot from those hunters). One Grey-headed Woodpecker flies across the road – a promising start.

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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.