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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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Where it is not – for example, in Japan – it will have difficulties finding a partner to mate. but on the one hand, this is not a sci-fi blog and I am not interested in science fiction (excluding of course Douglas Adams), and on the other hand, the answer from my side would be “no” anyway. .”

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Birding Shanghai in October 2022

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The Red-flanked Bluetail is also the subject of an otherwise relatively unremarkable paper , but it uses the interesting term “autumn obesity” Maybe this Marsh Sandpiper also suffers from autumn obesity? Not a bad name and a good reason to show this species again. They can also learn phonetic categories ( source ).

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Birding Shanghai in April 2024 (The Colors of Spring)

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The Brown-eared Bulbul is quite common in Japan but much less so in Shanghai. Apparently, in Japan some bird watchers do not particularly like bulbuls as they scare the other species away – here, being a single individual, this bulbul did not dare to bully any other species. In others, more like a sock puppet.

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