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Birding Fengxian, Shanghai in summer

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With my favorite Shanghai birding place at Nanhui getting gradually destroyed under the watchful eyes of the local government favoring Tesla over terns, I have been searching for some alternative Shanghai locations with less ongoing construction, fewer people, and hopefully more birds.

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Birding Jianfengling, Hainan (A-H)

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Still, it has quite a good habitat and birds – so good, in fact, that the frugal blog post writer (me) decided to write two separate posts about this park. This is part one, covering birds named from A to H. Given the exciting and exotic birds Hainan has to offer, starting the post with a Barn Swallow is a bit of a letdown.

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Birding in the Dark

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Mike invented Corey a few years ago to firstly promote the idea of a multi-authored bird blog and secondly so he could make up extremely productive birding trips to make the blog more exciting to read. ” Upon my return to the digital world, I checked 10,000 Birds to find this post by Corey.

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Baby Bird Books, Little Bird Books

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Several years ago, I was asked to visit my nephew’s preschool class and talk about birds. Jake lives in southern Florida, so he and his friends had to be interested in learning about these birds, which they saw everyday, right? How old were the baby birds? I chalk it up to the original baby bird book, P.D.

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Glue Trapped

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Like leg hold traps, glue traps are indiscriminate, with non-targeted species making up a large proportion of their catch. But be it a mouse, bird, bat, gecko, kitten … it’s a very bad way to go, and no creature should have to suffer death by torture. “My Freeing birds from glue traps is not easy. “I

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King of Kings

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Whatever they are doing – hunting, chasing other birds, or just flying around – Eastern Kingbirds are fun to watch. Their frenetic activity forces you to constantly change which bird you are watching and something is always happening. The activity of a flock of kingbirds working a patch of grassland is something to behold.

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Confusing Collared Kingfishers

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The world of birding is filled with challenging groups well known to all, birds like gulls , Empidonax flycatchers or cisticolas that require attention to the tiniest details in order to assign an individual to a specific species (if it can be done at all). One such bird is the Collared Kingfisher ( Todiramphus chloris ).

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