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Birding Shanghai in May 2023 – Part 1

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According to the HBW, food brought by Siberian Blue Robins to nestlings in Japan was 36% adult insects, 28% insect larvae, 18% spiders, and 18% unidentified (I suspect the last mostly being unhealthy fast food with the discriminating labels ripped off). Here at 10,000 Birds, we never forget that you, the reader, have a choice.

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Whales Losing the Will to Live?

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But now a French scientist has said the majestic mammals - which can reach 80ft in length and weigh the same as a passenger jet - could also suffer from heartbreak. Tags: norway iceland whales Japan whaling endangered species. And the psychological consequences of our aggression have compromised their will to live.'.

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The Bird Way: A Book Review

10,000 Birds

An accomplished popular science writer, Ackerman started out as a writer and researcher for National Geographic ‘s book division and has since written articles and books on such diverse scientific subjects as heredity, the common cold, dragonflies, and wildlife in Japan.

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The Cattle Egret Expansion

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The Cattle Egret is native to Africa, where it is a familiar sight among herds of large mammals. They have expanded their range through Indonesia and into Australia and is found in post breeding dispersal as far north as South Korea and Japan. I’d like to introduce you to a diminutive heron, the Cattle Egret Bubuclus ibis.

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Bird-Eating Fish

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It has also found its way to Japan where it is considered to be an invasive species. As noted, the fish-like mammals do this as well. Some (but not most) killer whales beach themselves on land or ice to get at sea mammals or penguins, and some dolphins do similar things. It is sometimes known as the European Catfish.

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Think Bush Is a Pro-Animal Environmentalist? Think Again!

Animal Ethics

According to this AP Newswire issued yesterday: "President Bush exempted the Navy from an environmental law so it can continue using sonar in its anti-submarine warfare training off the California coast — a practice critics say is harmful to whales and other marine mammals. Navy to do so? Note from KBJ: I'm surprised by your title, Mylan.

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I Remember Elephants

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A laughing matter (Japan was first to laugh at it, saying it doesn’t give a …, well, not in those exact words). The way I see it, it is a cruel joke leading towards the extinction of a threatened species. Because the advice, being non legally-binding is precisely – nothing. But I do not feel amused by it.

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