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Birding Cuba, or Observación de aves en Cuba

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I just returned from a glorious birding trip all over Cuba, so I am just going to ignore the pile of spring bird books on my dining room table (most of which arrived while I was gone), and write a bit about my favorite Cuban birds. Like flycatchers, the bird continuously forages for insects.

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Bird Song and Parallel Evolution: learning from our feathered friends

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Bird “instrumental music&# is bird song. Bird song is defined in various ways, but I prefer the functional definition used by evolutionary biologists. Bird song is defined in various ways, but I prefer the functional definition used by evolutionary biologists. Thus, the cooing sound of a pigeon is not a bird song.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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To be precise, “Birding Shanghai from June 10 to June 30, 2022” – but that is even less of an exciting title than the one above. The reason for this post only covering the period from June 10 being that an earlier post, “Revenge Birding”, was about the first 9 days of June. You should try it too.

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