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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. This Cattle Egret has just read a paper stating that it would be 3.6 times more efficient in its foraging if there were cows around. But maybe that is actually a good thing.

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