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Birding Nanhui, Shanghai, in September 2021

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Then, I was not sure whether this was the right thing to do. I pointed at the bird shown below but he insisted it could not be that species – no long tail … For people of a certain age, gender and background, at some point The Smiths were the most important band in the world. A juvenile Chinese Blackbird.

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Into the Nest: A Book Review in the Time of Nesting

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And of eggs and nests and birds on nests. Into the Nest , as the title says, is about the courting, mating, egg-laying, nesting, and parenting behavior of “familiar birds”. Some chapters focus on one species (Yellow Warbler), some on several related species (Chickadees and Nuthatches). And of birds courting and mating.

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A Change of Seasons in Costa Rica

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Flock after flock of blackbirds, ducks, geese, raptors flapping their way north. If you already know the songs of American Robin and Eurasian Blackbird , then you already know what the national bird is doing. They come in the form of waves of Scarlet Tanagers , pewees, Blackburnian Warblers, and other species.

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The Oriolest Oriole

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Icterus is a wide-ranging neotropical genus consisting of the technicolor blackbirds we call orioles. The two dozen species are, nearly to an individual, long bodied and bicolored. Most make impressively woven, deep, nests, and eat insects and nectar, often coming to feeders well-stocked with oranges and jellies. Just lazy ones.

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Flying Lemons Everywhere

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As a result, I had 15 species in the first hour. Laight has recorded some 100 species here, including Slavonian (Horned) Grebe and Red-rumped Swallow (the first is a rare migrant/wintering species only, while the second one is an uncommon breeder). She was half-right, it turned out. Worse than this?

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Baby Bird Books, Little Bird Books

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Jake lives in southern Florida, so he and his friends had to be interested in learning about these birds, which they saw everyday, right? Seuss’s Horton Hatches An Egg precedes Eastman’s book by twenty years. a baby bird of indeterminate species hatches while his mother is away from the nest. In Are You My Mother? by Mo Willems.

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Bird Love Week: How They Get It Done

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As the reigning birder of the world, I feel it is only right to look a little deeper into the lives of birds here, and talk about something beyond the mundane nuances of plumage variations of freshly-molted Empidonax flycatchers and if migrant Warbling Vireos arrived 3 days earlier this year than last.

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