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Birding Shanghai in March 2024

10,000 Birds

Population, excluding Japan, numbers less than 10,000–25,000 birds, and probably decreasing” Grey Herons flaunt their beauty quite openly (I am still thinking of Gustav Klimt when seeing the patterns on the wings) … … while other birds like Black-crowned Night Herons show their beauty a bit more carefully.

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GARBO TALKS!

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And now, researchers from Japan, Germany and Sweden confirmed what I knew all the time, like if I needed them to tell me so. Such syntactical rules have long been assumed to be unique to humans, but their results demonstrate that syntax is not unique to humans. Conservation research tits

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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Where it is not – for example, in Japan – it will have difficulties finding a partner to mate. ” I can see how this line of thinking leads to all kinds of sci-fi types of thought (“would I mate with an alien if I was the last human on earth”, etc.), How convenient. How efficient. How surprising.

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On Different Results of Direct Action

Animal Person

There is a profound difference between what Sea Shepherd does and what the Animal Liberation Front does, but there are also similarities, and those similarities increase in number if a direct action by the ALF (or anyone else) is an open rescue and therefore a direct defense of sentient nonhumans being attacked by humans.

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What the Owl Knows: The New Science of the World’s Most Enigmatic Birds: A Book Review

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Ackerman’s new book is about owls and owl research–the knowledge recently and currently being discovered through DNA analysis, new-tech tracking and monitoring, and old-fashioned fieldwork under the auspices of organizations like the Global Owl Project and the Owl Research Institute.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text. Jonathan Elphick and John Fanshawe provided “specialist research” and support.” Perhaps it’s because the topic is so huge, it’s difficult to comprehend in a systematic way. Eagles are national symbols of the U.S.,

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Unlikely Healer Walks on Three Paws

4 The Love Of Animals

Rather, he was a handy cat, one who could escape from all cages; one who could rouse his humans from a deep sleep as he played with anything and everything they dared to leave on the kitchen counter; one who could even, despite all odds, teach dog-only hearts to open up and love the newest member of their family. I’m Here too!”

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