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DECEMBER 2, 2012

I’m headed to Singapore in a week with stops in Japan and I hope Malaysia. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. If you live in any of those places, I’d love to go birding with you! His Best Bird of the Weekend? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2012 New York Malaysia Singapore 115

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DECEMBER 13, 2012

NARITA, JAPAN, DECEMBER 2012 – The art and science of layover birding deserves more rigorous study and perhaps a federal grant. What I learned convinced me to block out a full day to experience my first taste of Japanese birding. Lisa is an American who recently moved to Japan.

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Japan Birds Stud Ducks 122

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JANUARY 15, 2013

It has also found its way to Japan where it is considered to be an invasive species. Now and then individual catfish of various species hunt nearer the surface and larger catfish such as the American Channel Cat will take a duck or other water bird. My own experience at catching catfish (big ones!) Cucherousset, J.,

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Fish Birds Whales Whaling 210

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FEBRUARY 4, 2012

Richard Fried spent 2011 doing a New York State Big Year and managed to top the record of 350 species which was only set in 2008 by Scott Whittle. Richard totaled 352 species, an impressive number, by seeing almost all of the regularly occurring New York birds and the vast majority of the rarities that showed up in 2011.

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New York Puerto Rico 2011 Japan 179

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APRIL 10, 2016

From our experience the greatest risk is when the shorebirds take off in a panic flight and clip each other’s wings and several fall into the sea. There are two sub species of Red Knot here and the piersmai sub species is a much darker red colour than the rogersi sub species and easily identified in breeding plumage.

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Taiwan Breeding Japan 2017 100