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Birding in a Refinery

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From Yellow-hooded Blackbirds to Purple and Common Gallinules , there are almost too many birds to focus on! Due to the plethora of bird species around, invariably we were to experience something breathtaking. They all coexist harmoniously, apart from the fish perspective that is.

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Birding Shanghai in March 2023

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”, which by some remarkable coincidence is also the title of a paper on “Physical-Attractiveness Evaluations and Dating Preferences as a Function of One’s Own Attractiveness” (among humans, not Grey-capped Greenfinches). In my experience, people eat more food they are familiar with than food that is unfamiliar.

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“Understanding Animal Behaviour” by Rory Putman

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I don’t really know – from my own experience with school bullies or from Jack London’s novels? Those bears live in the wild and are not used to humans. Brewer’s blackbird, Euphagus cyanocephalus. Red-winged blackbird, Agelaius phoeniceus. How did I know that? From the behavioural point of view, what has happened?

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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)

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An Ashy Drongo apparently spends approximately 71% of its time scanning (what non-scientists would probably call looking around), 9% eating (less than a typical Chinese human but much more than me), calling 7%, flying 7%, and 6% preening. In conclusion, an experience that will put me off buying anything from that company ever.

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March Miscellania

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The nest cam, in my mind, is the perfect compromise — minimally invasive to the bird, while offering even the most unadventureous or house-bound humans the opportunity to get to know a small slice of nature. Does anyone here have personal experience visiting the Charles M. Perhaps I should hike Mt.

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Birds and People: A Book Review

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It’s not like I had forgotten lists created with friends of ‘songs with birds in the lyrics’, my personal favorites being Sondheim’s Green Finch and Linnet Bird and the Beatles’ Blackbird. It’s very hard to organize the many ways in which human beings relate to avian beings into comprehensible text.

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Birds of Belize & Birds of Costa Rica: A Field Guide Review Doubleheader

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Steve Howell has spent decades of experience in the field studying the birds of Belize, Costa Rica, and especially Mexico. It starts with water and wading birds and ending with meadowlark, blackbird, and bobolink.^ Fantasy is the key word here. Doing this work takes time! Press, 1995 ^Howell, Steve N.G., 4 (July 2013), pp.