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Some Hokkaido Winter Passerines

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In science speak, this is named the optimal body mass hypothesis. The eBird author of the entry on the Common Redpoll apparently suffers from winter depression, asking readers to “listen for their [the redpolls] chattering calls ringing through the desolate winter landscape” No winter wonderland for this depressed writer.

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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. 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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