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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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According to Couzens, after laying the eggs, females sometimes immediately abandon their first mate and pair up with another male. Where it is not – for example, in Japan – it will have difficulties finding a partner to mate. But maybe that is actually a good thing. How convenient.

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The Cattle Egret Expansion

10,000 Birds

Other species have certainly expanded their ranges, but never in such a rapid and global scale. For reasons that are not quite clear, this species underwent a massive range expansion. In the east, this species can be found along the east coast of Africa, the Nile Valley,and into parts of the middle east and India and southeast Asia.

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