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Birding Nanhui, Shanghai in October 2021

10,000 Birds

Estren said that humans should be mindful of their bias for cute animals, so animals that would not be considered cute are also valued in addition to cute animals. Population conjectured to have been in the order of 100 million birds in 1980s” The reason, of course, is the usual one: human beings. Bird-shaped cuteness.

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Summer Books for Kids (and the rest of us)

10,000 Birds

Roth depicts a brown, tail-banded, evil-eyed hawk with an open-eyed parrot held upside-down, wings spread, in its claws). Captive-bred parrots are released into the wild and eaten by hawks. A hawk-avoidance training program is created. A second flock is released into the wild in 2006. The birds thrive.