This man is buying birds just to set them free

[Bayard]

[LizBeth]

1. He is increasing demand.

[samnsara]

2. are they indigenous to the region hes releasing them to?

..I always fret when I read of a lost bird and winter is coming...

[MontanaMama]

3. Yikes.

I hope these birds are native to where they are being released. If not, they are sitting ducks for predators.

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

4. My first thought likewise was

"Is he releasing them in a place where they can survive on their own?"

[subterranean]

5. My wife did something like that once.

At a market in China, she bought a pigeon that would have been destined for someone's dinner plate, took it to the park and released it into a flock of pigeons that lived there.

[Duppers]

6. It's the dog meat in China that bothers me

The most.

....

[subterranean]

8. Most Chinese don't eat dog, though.

That practice is confined mainly to certain areas of south China. Hopefully the infamous Yulin dog meat festival will soon be a thing of the past.

[Duppers]

9. Thanks! I would haven't eaten any meat

For the entire 6wks I was there if I thought they did. (Most of our time was spent in & traveling around Shanghai, except for a few days in Beijing. We've friends in Shanghai.)

[Duppers]

7. Thank goodness some people have compassion

And the money to help.

[jmowreader]

10. Does the phrase "invasive species" mean anything to him?