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Common Gallinule, the lost Moorhen

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I felt like I needed to do some research into why this change occurred. The Common Gallinule , is the most wide spread of all the members of the rail family, being found from Canada, to Chile, Europe, Asia, Africa, much of the Pacific, and the Galapagos Islands. That is all I have ever known them to be.

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Laughing at you, not with you

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” Fortunately, most of these researchers could be taken off their antidepressants after proper sound recording was invented. ” As well as in Southeast Asia, there are also Spotted Laughingthrushes (photos taken at Longcanggou and Wolongshan, Sichuan) at the San Diego Zoo.

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Birding Shanghai in October 2022

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With regard to the Grey-backed Thrush , “further research should focus on identification of nest predators, implications of nest exposure and begging calls on nesting success, and breeding habitat requirements at different spatial and temporal scales of Grey-backed Thrush in fragmented landscapes of northeast China.”

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 1)

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The Chestnut-winged Babbler is known as one of the host species of the Asian Drongo-cuckoo in Southeast Asia ( source ), a claim to fame that most bird species would probably prefer to avoid. And of course, some Chinese researchers worked on the complete mitochondrial genome of the Greater Coucal.