By now, making demotivational posters for birds feels like migration — repetitive, exhausting, and strangely inevitable. We suspect no one’s keeping track, but then again, birds rarely abandon bad habits either.
They return to the same trees, sing the same songs, and somehow expect different results. That’s persistence, or maybe futility — hard to tell.
Either way, we salute it. So here’s Part VII, continuing our proud tradition of not quite giving up, yet not really trying, either.
Kai has lived in Shanghai for more than 21 years. He only started birding after moving to China, so he is far more familiar with Chinese birds than the ones back in his native Germany. As a birder, he considers himself strictly average and tries to make up for it with photography, which he shares on a separate website. Alas, most of the photos are pretty average as well.
He hopes that few clients of his consulting firm—focused on China’s chemical industry—ever find this blog, as it might raise questions about his professional priorities. Much of his time is spent either editing posts for 10,000 Birds or cleaning the litter boxes of his numerous indoor cats. He occasionally considers writing a piece comparing the two activities.
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