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Birding Chongming Island in summer

10,000 Birds

.” And after separating all the parts of the boluses and presumably weighing them, your conclusion would have been that “the most regularly occurring food items recorded are fish (63%) and insects (33%)” (the other 4% are the few remaining bits of chocolate and gummy bears brought to the chicks by their grandparents.

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Collaborative List – March 2019

10,000 Birds

With so much thrashing around in SE Asia, it is interesting to compare east and west hemispheres. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Cattle Tyrant – Machetornis rixosa. Lemmon–Bear Canyon (Cypress, Middle Bear, Chihuahua Pine Picnic Areas). 978 species were tallied this month from 163 checklists.

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