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Restless New Zealand Fantails

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The New Zealand Fantail was once placed with the Grey Fantail of Australia, but are now treated as separate, because of science. This has been benefitial for the species, which suffered considerable losses after the snow storm two years ago but quickly rebounded. Fantails don’t do necks.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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I do not get too many comments on my blog posts, but it seems that whenever I write about jacanas – whether in Africa, Australia, or Asia – there is an unusually high number of reactions (well, maybe one or two rather than the usual zero) from female readers. This is ok as birds do not have teeth anyway).

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Collaborative List – November 2019

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The Management are still in Africa, suffering the buffering that comes with remoteness. They ranged across 10 countries (Costa Rica, USA, UK, India, Australia, China, Brazil, Mexico, Serbia and Uganda). Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail. Mark Hatfield Marine Science Center and Estuary Trail.

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