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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

” Fortunately, most of these researchers could be taken off their antidepressants after proper sound recording was invented. I can sometimes hear Hwamei singing here in my compound in Shanghai – alas, these are then cage birds, as the species is popular as a caged bird for its singing.

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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 2

10,000 Birds

The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. Apparently, some bird photographers think that any human artifacts shown on a bird photo immediately spoil the whole photo. This included recording a total of 77,760 minutes of video.

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