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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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.” And after separating all the parts of the boluses and presumably weighing them, your conclusion would have been that “the most regularly occurring food items recorded are fish (63%) and insects (33%)” (the other 4% are the few remaining bits of chocolate and gummy bears brought to the chicks by their grandparents.

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Should We Take the “Christmas” out of the Christmas Bird Count?

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What’s not to like about citizen science, conservation, and transforming a day of slaughter into a day of enjoying being outside watching birds? Bear with me, keyboard commandos of the 101 Chairborn Patriot Squad. But maybe it needs a name change?