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Birding Shanghai in June 2023

10,000 Birds

They are also early adopters with regard to their foraging – nowadays mostly following tractors rather than cattle. Similar to the rare human experiment, the results were generally acceptable, though of course that does not account for any potential psychological damage caused by the switch in parents.

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Happy New Year?

10,000 Birds

There are also certain psychological advantages. Jewish-calendar based year lists would start, depending on the year, with a burst of shore birds and waterfowl, a handful of late warblers, or the modest, meditative joy of migrant sparrows. It is common and widely recognized and for those very reasons, to most of us it just feels right.