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From Today's New York Times

Animal Ethics

This holds true whether it is in the Democratic Republic of Congo or right here in New York City, where Cyrus R. BENNETT Jeju, South Korea, Sept. 4, 2012 The writer is vice president for species conservation at the Wildlife Conservation Society. Note from KBJ: I take it that rats are not a "charismatic species."

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The Cattle Egret Expansion

10,000 Birds

Will Raup is a birder from upstate New York who helped Corey learn a lot about birds when Corey was first starting out as a birder. Other species have certainly expanded their ranges, but never in such a rapid and global scale. For reasons that are not quite clear, this species underwent a massive range expansion.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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If you are a person who enjoys analyzing the stuff regurgitated by bird chicks, you probably wish to have participated in a study looking at the diet of Yellow Bitterns in South Korea. The solution for one female Chinese Pond Heron in a Japanese heronry: mating with a Little Egret ( source ).

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