10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

According to Wikipedia, “A l owl ife is a term for a person who is considered morally unacceptable by their community” The local Nanhui shrikes are well aware that the word “lowlife” has an owl hidden inside, and mark the appearance of owls in their territory with harsh protests.

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10,000 Birds

AUGUST 15, 2022

Somehow, I feel this post about the few pheasants I have seen in China has gotten off to a wrong start – not quite the kind of motivation to blog readers to continue reading this post. So, back to the wonderful world of pheasants in China. This turned out to be nice for one researcher who thus could do the research for her Ph.D.

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10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2024

The prinia will then claim that its current name – celebrating a morally very questionable person – is no longer acceptable in the modern world. Some ornithological research is surprisingly simple. Personally, I wish the species the best of luck in this endeavor. (Of

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10,000 Birds

MAY 6, 2024

I am always trying to shame China into reducing its environmental pollution but with rather limited results so far. A short paper i n the Journal of the Natural History of African Birds points out shoddy research that ended up describing the Eurasian Hobby as a “hunter of dusk and dawn” It is not. Here’s a Bluethroat.

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