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Birding Shanghai in May 2023 – Part 1

10,000 Birds

While having somebody else raise your chicks like an attractive strategy to me, it is not without dangers. Insects seem to also be the main food item of Brown Shrikes , as this video also shows. A paper reports on how a female Common Cuckoo was mobbed and killed by Oriental Reed Warbler hosts.

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Third time lucky for Arabian Babbler

10,000 Birds

A couple of roads cut back through the circle to the central area which boasts a fast food restaurant, a mosque and toilets. . The offspring remain and help out raising subsequent broods. There is a paved road with an accompanying cycle path that describes a circle around the park.

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Don’t Feed The Birds!

10,000 Birds

Let’s say you’re at a fast food restaurant and you have a few french fries left over and a gull is eagerly staring at you and the fries. Let’s take the issues raised in the sign above one by one and figure out how serious each issue is. Do you toss the bird your leftovers?

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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. Where there are conscientious carnivores, however, there is a motive to raise animals kindly.

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Prima Facie vs. Ultima Facie Wrongness

Animal Ethics

But the wrongness and vileness of factory farming does not show that eating meat is morally wrong, because it is theoretically possible to raise animals outdoors in idyllic settings, to give them wonderful, enjoyable, rich lives, and then after 6 months to a year of such blissful existence, to kill them entirely painlessly.