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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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Some differences in animal behavior are quite striking. Maybe better not to ever meet such a “mother” (given that I have been living in China for too long to be up-to-date regarding political correctness etc., at Disney’s Animal Kingdom ( source ). of catching extremely small fish.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 6)

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was responsible for maintaining the universe, judging the dead, and for writing and science ( source ). Nice to encounter a quail that is not as shy as the ones here in China! The Sacred Ibis was seen as the incarnation of the god Thoth, who (with gods apparently better at multitasking than humans) was (or maybe still is, who knows?)

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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 2)

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A paper on the Chestnut-vented Nuthatch titled “Nest-Site Features and Breeding Ecology of Chestnut-Vented Nuthatch Sitta nagaensis in Southwestern China” has 8 authors. While the HBW describes their presence in China as “very local”, they seem to be very common at Tongbiguan. ” Oh my, are we important.

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What happened with Archaeopteryx?

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An Archaeopteryx-like theropod from China Then one day you go to a conference of historians and there is a special symposium being held by some well regarded colleagues, who have been working for months with some archaeologists on a secret project. Body size would be an example of a trait with too much lability in many animals.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2023

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The Latin species name of the Common Greenshank , nebularia , sounds a bit like a science fiction novel to me – however, it means “misty” and apparently is derived from the birds’ misty, marshy habitat (HBW). Fortunately, they are quite common in Shanghai. A relative of this species is the Yellow-bellied Tit.

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The Golden Pheasant

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Here is the result of the first few websites that a Google search brought up: A-Z animals : Not included in the top 10 The Mysterious World : Included and taking the No. I guess in China, there is always money for research related to Giant Pandas. 3, so, yes. gallinarum ( source ).

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Birding Tongbiguan, Yunnan (part 1)

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As usual in China, there are some anonymous Leaf Warbler species – but who cares, apart from Bella of Alpinebirding ? While the HBW claims that the Rufous-gorgeted Flycatcher is uncommon in China, this probably does not apply to this part of Yunnan. Which sounds like a species name taken from a science fiction novel for children.

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