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A Near Conjunction

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As if to stamp its approval on the habitat alteration, a Pale-breasted Spinetail voiced its content with the human disturbance. These birds are typically found in scrub and open habitat, how this individual was able to locate this field within the Northern Range is testament to the scale of human disturbance along the roadway.

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Birding Shanghai in March 2022

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The main reason seems to be a better sharing of the workload in the more equal same-sex couples – something that is hardly irrelevant for humans. No wonder species definitions are so problematic. It seems that the “taiga and tundra bean goose diverged about 2.5 million years ago and established secondary contact ca.

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Birding Sanming, Fujian

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If you live south of the Yangtze river, by definition there is no need for heating, independent of how cold it is. In the usual human-centric way of thinking prevailing then (and maybe now – Alstroem’s Leaf Warbler, anyone?), This is because, in China, winter heating at least traditionally depends on location.

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Come@Me: Hunting Is Not Conservation

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The definition of the word HUNT is “to chase or search for game or other wild animals for the purpose of catching or killing.” ” The definition of the word CONSERVATION is “the act or an instance of conserving or keeping from change, loss, or injury.” Why is this happening?

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The Glitter in the Green: In Search of Hummingbirds–A Hummer Book Review

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It provides goals and a definite direction for your birding travels and thoughts; sometimes it even becomes the basis of a book! There is a photo of him caring for a White-chinned Sapphire in the book, the only human pictured in Dunn’s 16-page collection of hummingbird photographs, and it is inspiring. I had hoped for more.

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Hotspur’s Revenge: A Review of Three Books

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I am a human being, so I am entitled to, and I do, say that the starling is an ugly bird. The trouble is, the definition of “native habitat” is, for starlings and many other species, now quite elastic. . • The Aliens Among Us: How Invasive Species Are Transforming the Planet – and Ourselves (Leslie Anthony, Yale). • Prum, Doubleday).

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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.” 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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