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“The (Big) Year that Flew By: Twelve Months, Six Continents, and the Ultimate Birding Record”

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When I returned from my first passage to India and started my story to my best mate, he asked: No, no, don’t skip anything, start from the beginning, from landing. Yet, I was not aware of any of Arjan’s big year updates in English, so I had no clue where he was or how many species he managed to see.

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Moral Vegetarianism, Part 11 of 13

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For an explanation of this feature, click on “Moral Vegetarianism” at the bottom of this post. The Argument from Human Grain Shortage All of the clearly moral arguments for vegetarianism given so far have been in terms of animal rights and suffering. Tags: Moral Vegetarianism. KBJ: I’m speechless.

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Aelian’s On The Nature Of Animals: The Classics Can Be Fun!

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A subject that Aelian returns to again and again is the still-contentious issue of the animal mind , and to what degree the creatures he describes can be accurately said to learn, reason, and have morals. In this, despite the dubious nature of some of the anecdotes, the work on the whole succeeds.

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Collaborative list – January 2020

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The year has started well with 10 new birds from India, China, Hawaii, Mexico and Costa Rica. 12 beats birded 10 countries (Costa Rica, USA, Brazil, China, India, Serbia, UK, Australia, New Zealand and Mexico), submitting 187 lists and spotting 902 birds. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. The life lists stands at 3964.

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Collaborative List – November 2019

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They ranged across 10 countries (Costa Rica, USA, UK, India, Australia, China, Brazil, Mexico, Serbia and Uganda). Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas.

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Should is not a Solution

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I will address two of them in the new year, namely, “Is hunting moral at all?” It’s all very well to advocate the should that tigers should not be poached from a reserve in India. So it isn’t wrong to be the advocate, so long as you don’t become too disconnected from how the work actually gets done.

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Collaborative List – February 2019

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Without including the new pin in the map, countries this month featured; USA, Australia, Serbia, Bahrain, India, Kuwait, New Zealand, UK, Ghana and of course, Costa Rica. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. Punta Morales–Cocorocas salinas. All will be revealed in good time.

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