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How To (And Not To) Transport Wild Birds

10,000 Birds

Fast food containers are popular. “An The finders of an adult Barred Owl brought to Kathryn Dudeck in Georgia thought he had a wing fracture, so they wrapped the entire bird in the plastic protective wrap used by landscape companies and taped it up. “Two wildlife biologists brought me a Golden Eagle inside a metal pipe.”

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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

10,000 Birds

Meanwhile, on Chongming island, I rescued a Northern Shoveler which got caught in one of these evil, almost invisible strings that the farmers use to protect their fields from hungry birds. Like fast food, but free and likely more healthy. Did the bird thank me? Grant me three wishes, as I expected? Did it f*ck.

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The Kerkini Lake, Greece: Dipped One, Got One

10,000 Birds

The next morning is for the Kerkini Lake, one of the youngest national parks of Greece, protected only ten years ago, in 2006 and inhabited by 11 amphibian, 27 reptilian, 44 mammal and 312 bird species. 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

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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.