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Birding Yancheng, Jiangsu

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There is a great song by The Chills titled “ Complex “ Great link, right? In Daurian Redstarts , personality traits (specifically, whether a bird is shy or bold) partly determine how good an individual is in rejecting cuckoo eggs in its nest. A nice example of gender equality of sorts.

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Backyard Birdfeeder Bragging Rights, a Great Adventure for a Great Twitch, and More: This Week in Birding News

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If you’re a cuckoo or cowbird hoping to pawn off your parenting duties on another species, new brood parasitism research shows you’ll have better luck if the eggs you deposit in their nest are blue-green instead of brown. And as a ferocious storm bears down on much of the northern U.S.,

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Review: Saving the Spoon-billed Sandpiper

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With populations plunging dramatically over the last decade, researchers from the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust, Birds Russia, and a number of other conservation organizations made the always-controversial call to pluck eggs from the imperiled wild population and establish a captive breeding program as a final hedge against extinction.

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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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Birding Hongbenghe, Yunnan

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Hongbenghe is a very small village in Yunnan, right next to the border with Myanmar. It seems that this is another species for which the standard phrase of scientists anywhere, “more research needed”, applies. One road simply ends here, giving the place a real end-of-the-world feeling. “It is not deep enough yet!

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National Audubon Society Birds of North America: A Guide Review

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The first guide bearing the National Audubon Society imprint was Audubon Bird Guide; Eastern Land Birds , written by Richard Hooper Pough, and illustrated by Don Eckelberry. A small range map is placed in the upper right/left hand corner showing summer, winter, resident, migration, and rare locations.

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Birding Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo

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So, like a football stadium named after an insurance company, the broadbill ended up bearing a name celebrating a sponsor. ” Little research seems to have been done on many of the birds of Mount Kinabalu. Interestingly, the first description of a nest of Whitehead’s Spiderhunter was only published in 2015.

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