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Critically Endangered: Sociable Lapwing

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The official definition of CR status says the species could be gone within ten years, or could lose 80 per cent of its population within three generations – whichever comes first. Trips endangered species India lapwings Sociable Lapwing' Gujarat, December 2010. The previous day was devoted to exploration of the Little Rann of Kutch.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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Some differences in animal behavior are quite striking. Unfortunately, in the science of language, this does not sound particularly raunchy but rather like a rational decision: “A rare species such as the Chinese Pond Heron might choose heterospecific mates rather than abandoning all chances of reproduction.”

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Awkward Fostering

4 The Love Of Animals

It turns out that people are not the only ones, who can adopt children – animals are good at this as well. Especially it is associated with dogs, which may raise kids of other species and even of scary and dangerous representatives of wildlife!

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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While the species favors forested hills at moderate elevations ( source ), there are no hills at all here at Nanhui, so maybe these individuals are outcasts or just eccentrics. Chestnut-winged Cuckoo: This could be your host species! When the animal recovers from the anesthetic, it is given access to a mirror. It looks nice 2.

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Birding Shanghai in July 2022

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With an obvious hint of disapproval, the HBW remarks that for this species, the “nest [is] a small or bulky but always untidy pad” I suspect the author of these lines lives with teenage children and uses the description of the magpie-robin to vent some frustration with them. But it is all for science, I hear them say.

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