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Best Bird of the Weekend (Fourth of May 2020)

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Weather patterns have been far from ideal for us to get our last big burst of migrating spring songbirds and the parks seemed relatively quiet this weekend, with few but local breeders there to be seen. While Mike was busy looking for breeding wood-warblers I spent my time scouring Queens for something new for my year list.

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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 2

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The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. And of course, on a rather rare occasion for this blog, an almost perfect link to the next bird (my favorite transition is still the Monty Python one: “And now for something completely different”).

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Birding Wuyuan, China

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But then, I am not a cooperative breeder either (nor a non-cooperative one, should this term exist). For quite a few birders visiting Wuyuan, the main reason is to see the Blue-crowned Laughingthrush. This Grey-capped Pygmy Woodpecker in particular is a species I would like to get much better photos of.

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A Little Win

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Turtle Dove Turtle Doves are a protected species in Britain, in fact the status of Turtle Doves has become of so much concern there is a special project called Operation Turtle Dove created to look at how the huge declines in our British breeding populations might be halted.

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The true “Mediterranean” Gull

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It has come to my attention that this blog needs more gulls. Of course this is self-evident as you can never have enough gulls on a bird blog, but this blog here is in an especially dire need of more gull posts for the simple reason that I have a few nice pictures of gulls that would make for a few nice posts.

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Some Germans have a bird – A short birding trip through the German language

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Having come back to the blog in whatever form and persistency, the overarching subject of language in birding seemed to be a suitable and deserving theme since bird names were part of my original beat. Yes, Germans were a particularly supersticious breed in the days of old, and would not dare to use the word devil even when cursing.

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Timing is Everything: Spring & Summer South Florida Targets

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Although many South Florida specialties can be seen throughout the year such as White-crowned Pigeon and Snail Kite , most visiting birders decide to come in the months of April and May in search of summer migrants or secretive birds that only vocalize during the breeding season.

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