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Birding Shanghai in May 2022

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Tragically, I never saw any birds near the nest later on – I guess they abandoned it, decided to quit procreating, or just got eaten by some other bird or cat. The male at work. The juvenile Chinese Blackbirds get older but still look kind of stupid.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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I once had a cat who loved to lick plastic bags, and while I find the pleasure in this hard to comprehend, it still seems more understandable to me than the joy (?) According to Couzens, after laying the eggs, females sometimes immediately abandon their first mate and pair up with another male. of catching extremely small fish.

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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)

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If you are looking for a use of a cardboard box, one of the more interesting ideas is to use it to house an abandoned juvenile Striated Heron. ” It is a bit similar with my cats – I like to watch them eat but rarely wait until they throw up. Many birdwatchers seem satisfied merely in the identification of birds.”

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

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The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. Restoration of the Yi qi dinosaur from the late Jurassic era, China, by Emily Willoughby, used under Creative Commons license.

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