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Pycnonotidae: A Critical Review

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In fact, bulbuls are the work horses of the bird world in many parts of Asia and Africa. While this species is very common in Japan, a few showed up on the Shanghai coast in the winter of 2019/2020. .” Sounds a bit like a Grey-eyed Bulbul once took away the girlfriend of an eBird reviewer, doesn`t it? “Dissonant, moi?”

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Where I Went Birding that Third Weekend of September 2020

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There was the Botteri’s Sparrow giving a larger Canyon Towhee a piece of its mind, on my way into town: The reservoir itself was underwhelming, only offering me a collection of white Egrets (Cattle, Snowy and Great) and a single Great Blue Heron. This was my fourth and final FOY bird for the day. Brown-backed Solitaire.

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