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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

10,000 Birds

Fast food containers are popular. “An They were able to untangle him, but they took a few good talon hits in the process. “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?

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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

10,000 Birds

If you are wondering how on earth such an obscure and self-referential joke could survive the editing process of this blog, the explanation is simple: There is no editing process. Like fast food, but free and likely more healthy. A Vega-type Gull enjoys an in-flight meal.

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Roger Scruton on the Duty to Eat Meat

Animal Ethics

The lifestyle associated with the Sunday roast involves sacrifices that those brought up on fast food are unused to making—mealtimes, manners, dinner-table conversation and the art of cookery itself. That was the remedy practised by our parents, with their traditional ‘Sunday roast’ coming always at midday, after they had given thanks.

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