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Birding Shanghai in March 2023

10,000 Birds

Alas, it seems they were already gone from Tianmashan in March. That paper raises an interesting question: “When less attractive people accept less attractive dates, do they persuade themselves that the people they choose to date are more physically attractive than others perceive them to be?

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Laughing at you, not with you

10,000 Birds

At least they seem to understand that raising chicks is hard and annoying work and have found at least a partial solution for this problem: “co-operative breeder, up to four individuals attending chicks at one nest, at least three seen to feed chicks” (HBW).

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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 2

10,000 Birds

Apparently, some bird photographers think that any human artifacts shown on a bird photo immediately spoil the whole photo. Alas, one would be wrong – I immediately mixed it up with the rather similar-looking Rufous-bellied Niltava (not shown here). This included recording a total of 77,760 minutes of video.

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