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Birding Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo

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When not climbing, he collected species, and thus a number of birds are named after him. The Borneo-endemic Chestnut-crested Yuhina is a cooperative breeder – the vast majority of breeding pairs (97%) in a study conducted here at Mount Kinabalu had helpers. Must have been a camera fault.

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Spring Migration on South Padre Island, Texas

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Many may not make it to their breeding grounds due to the extreme stress of the situation, lack of resources, the weather itself, disorientation, and human-caused killers like windows and cars. It is a collection of empty lots that have been conserved by the Valley Land Fund to create safe spaces for these birds to feed and hydrate.

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Raptors of Nanhui, Shanghai

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And in my customary environmentally friendly approach to recycling bird photos, I have collected some of them in this post. The falcon breeds in south-eastern Siberia and Northern China but winters in Southern and East Africa. Still, coming here often guarantees to see some of them eventually. Still as impressed as before?

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The Wryneck: Biology, Behaviour, Conservation and Symbolism of Jynx torquilla: A Book Review

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They mimic snakes, a claim to fame that goes all the way back to Aristotle’s History of Animals. Here are just a few things that I learned: It is almost impossible to tell male and female Wrynecks apart, which means we still don’t know a lot about which sex does what when it comes to parenting or, indeed, any behavior.

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Saving the Drowning Cormorant, or the Kerkini Lake, Greece

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Even collecting one piece after another, I didn’t manage to see the whole picture, but after a lot of effort, I collected enough pieces to ID the Eastern Olivaceous Warbler , only the first of a dozen that will be chock chock chocking from fruiting mulberries. They have sloping sides and a flat top, meant for birds to breed on.

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A Strategic Arms Race Among Birds

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The vast majority of the 10,000+ living species of birds are passerines, and the vast majority of those have a similar system of breeding: Mom and dad bird make a nest and share parental responsibilities roughly equally, if not identically. …because cooperative breeding facilitates defense against brood parasites.

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Rarer than Tigers: the Indian Wild Dog

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Nitin hopes to enlarge his collection of photos of Tigers. One Nilgai – the largest of Asian antelopes and a few Sambar deer later, we hit a jackpot: there is one jackal-like animal sitting among the dry leaves! Well, one reason might be – this animal is not only endangered, but even rarer than the Tiger!

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