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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan (Part 1)

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This laughingthrush is a cooperative breeder – nestlings are fed by all members of a group, often 6-12 (not just 2 as in Wham!): “A female may share a nest with another, and 3 or more adults may take turns incubating the eggs and feeding the chicks.” (Note to those readers who do not know Wham!: ” ( source ). .”

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There goes the neighborhood

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I am on a chat for Mexican birders, and one of their latest running jokes has to do with a Clay-colored Thrush (all too common on Mexico’s eastern coast) which, during our quarantine, has been dubbed “Wilson” by one of our Veracruz birders, in a reference to Tom Hanks’ volleyball “friend” in Castaway.

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What is the State Bird of Connecticut?

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The American Robin is the largest of the North American thrushes, and are the root source of the “early bird gets the worm” quote, which references their proclivity for yanking worms out of the ground. Robins are prolific breeders, capable of producing not one, not two, but three broods in one summer season.

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Laughing at you, not with you

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At least they seem to understand that raising chicks is hard and annoying work and have found at least a partial solution for this problem: “co-operative breeder, up to four individuals attending chicks at one nest, at least three seen to feed chicks” (HBW).

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Acorn Woodpeckers: The Clowns of the Avian World

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Most Acorn Woodpeckers are cooperative breeders and live in family groups of up to a dozen or more individuals. Within a group, 1–7 male co-breeders compete for matings with 1–3 joint-nesting females who lay their eggs in the same nest cavity. References: 1 Birds of North America Online a.

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Osprey Love in Northern California

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Most of the Osprey breeding in North America are migratory, only Florida, the Caribbean and Baja California host non-migratory breeders 1. References: 1 Birds of North America Online … A fish may love a bird, but where would they live? This pair copulated several times while I was observing.

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Bushtits Have Begun Building Their Nests

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Probably one of the most interesting things about these little birds is that they are cooperative breeders. References: 1 Birds of North America Online. If you have good ears you can hear them as they call to each other. Their nest is a 6 to 12 inch elongated pendulous structure with an entrance to one side of the top.