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DECEMBER 27, 2015

I had only just written about the observation of a Little Tern flagged in Taiwan last week when another flagged bird from overseas placed itself in our path! The Little Tern was also blue and white flags, but it was a white flag above a blue flag on the left tarsus and that indicates it has been flagged in Taiwan.

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You are then able to position yourself behind the shorebirds and enjoy their magnificent breeding plumage! There is one odd bird in the photo below and that is a lone Oriental Plover , which I have enlarged for you below! Standing behind shorebirds an hour after the tide has turned. Shorebirds roosting on Reddell Beach.

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MARCH 30, 2014

They need to go north to breed and we will anxiously await the return of the adults and the juveniles later in the year. There are a variety of websites to the north of Broome where people can upload their photographs of individually marked birds as they make a stopover on their journey. Eastern Curlew.

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APRIL 10, 2016

Some of the Grey-tailed Tattlers have managed to find some shade from the 39c (102f) temperature under the large rock, but mostly the birds are relying on the cooler temperature on the wet sand and rocks after the tide has dropped. Most of the Red Knot are in very good breeding plumage now and they do stand out very well on the grey rocks.

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JANUARY 29, 2012

The birds will be dispersing across the country and our garden has been rather quiet since the rain started. A wet garden without birds! We scanned through the flock thoroughly looking for individually marked birds and we had a Red-necked Stint that had been flagged and banded/ringed in Bohai Bay, China.

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MARCH 20, 2011

home about advertise archives birds conservation contact galleries links reviews subscribe Browse: Home / Birds / Autumn colours Autumn colours By Clare M • March 20, 2011 • 5 comments Tweet Share As you all get ready for the onset of spring in the northern hemisphere we are heading into autumn.

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JANUARY 24, 2016

They are in large flocks when they roost of several thousand birds, but often they will roost among their own species. Great Knot and Red Knot will all intermingle together and the Red Knot are easily overlooked when not in their breeding plumage when every bird appears “grey”!

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MAY 20, 2024

eBird talks about the “Stunning breeding male … with a short crest, neon-blue eyerings, and long black tail streamers.” Then again, a study conducted in Taiwan found a relatively large population of the bird on Lanyu and – based on this result – suggested downlisting the species to Least Concern.

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From a global low of less than 300 birds in the late 80’s, the species has recovered to 2726, according to a survey in early 2014. Habitat destruction, disease and hunting are still major problems that affect the conservation efforts, but the breeding sites and wintering grounds now have international protection.

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

birds that we are lucky to have with us today, species that seem to have beat the odds and have been migrating on the long and bumpy road to recovery. Kirtland’s Warbler is a classic niche species; they breed in only very specific conditions, which occur in only a very specific area. this species breeds. Here are some U.S.

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APRIL 24, 2011

They breed year round and the single young remain in the pouch for about 30 weeks and become independent after a year. We recorded a lot of individually marked birds that afternoon and had two flocks of Great Knot head off on their northward migration. The male Agile Wallaby weighs in at about 27 kg and the female at about 15 kg.

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DECEMBER 20, 2015

We also did some inland birding to the Pilbara in November, but I will return to some news on the shorebirds along our coast for this week. This is mainly due to the fact that we found a rather special bird recently on Cable Beach in Broome. This indicated that the Little Tern had been captured in Taiwan.

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DECEMBER 26, 2022

This year, it seems I wrote one post on birding in Shanghai each month – and I am still not even sure anyone is interested in these. Probably the most interesting bird this month was a Grey-headed Canary-Flycatcher showing up in the Shanghai Botanical Garden. I know – sexism is very common in the birding world.

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AUGUST 31, 2023

And now for something completely different – birds. That keeps away about 80% of the pesky bird photographers away from the males (though probably also a fair share of the female birds – can’t have it both ways). Mind you, no long tails in this season. Here is a mugshot of a Long-tailed Shrike.

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OCTOBER 3, 2022

The name is a puzzle though – even the HBW states that the bird has “small or no crest” These photos were taken on Sep 26, indicating that the birds passed Shanghai rather late (according to the HBW, “autumn migration from early to late Sept”). This is not really an option at Nanhui though. The female.

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NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The Siberian Rubythroat seems to somewhat lack a proper inbuilt GPS system – while it breeds as far west as the Ural Mountains and winters as far est as Central India, it does not migrate through central Asia in large numbers (even though this would be the shortest way). So better not let a rubythroat bite you. .

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DECEMBER 8, 2022

I did not find much about this bird online except for a paper with the exciting title “A new quill mite Torotrogla emberizae sp. Hopefully, the winter time in Shanghai gives the Black-faced Buntings some time to relax from the challenges of the breeding season. Maybe there is some justice in this world after all.

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