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Birding Shanghai in March 2023

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In my experience, people eat more food they are familiar with than food that is unfamiliar. Chinese Blackbird s are among the most common birds in the Shanghai compound where I live (and where fortunately this year I am not actually locked in, a contrast to the situation one year ago).

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Birds on Posts or Birding North Dakota

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Audubon Associate Naturalist, have led this tour many times, through tornados, droughts, questionable restaurants, and, sadly, the advent of fracking, and every one of my friends who has participated over the years has raved about the experience and the birds (in fact, one member of our group was on his third or fourth trip, I lost count).

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There’s a bear! There’s a bear!

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Up to 100 kg – possibly a female, my guide and a bear researcher from the wildlife charity Callisto, Yannis Tsanakis, tells me. According to the latest research data, the total Brown Bear population in Greece is 475 to 500 and here in the Pindos range there are 350 to 400 animals (Pilidis, 2015, in pub.).

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Revenge Birding (Shanghai, early June 2022)

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If I was an ornithologist aiming for a grant, I would now definitely highlight the need for more research on this topic. The researchers are quite aware of the differences between humans and birds and thus have completely ignored another explanation for this behavior. These birds have too much taste.

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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. Jonathan Elphick and John Fanshawe provided “specialist research” and support.” About 300 stories are used throughout the book.

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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. And Sandwich Tern is Sandwich Tern, Howell finding the DNA research for splitting it “weak.” It starts with water and wading birds and ending with meadowlark, blackbird, and bobolink.^

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German Birding Blitz

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Your author watching a Hawfinch instead of the castle Now it was time to research the trip. Once on our own, Jess and I decided to try a fun experiment. Well, I can say that what this American was able to see, and identify, was not the expected Blackbird, but rather a bird that may make some Americans cry: the Black Woodpecker !