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Bird Love Week: How They Get It Done

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This week at 10,000 Birds, it’s all about how birds get around to bumping uglies (I’m talking about cloacas here), who they do it with, and how this actually leads to raising chicks…the birds and the bees of birds, you might say. Believe it or not, this is what “fidelity” looks like.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. When juvenile Chinese Blackbirds want to get an alcoholic drink at a bar, they usually blacken their yellow gape flanges in order to look older. This one seems to wonder about whether eating flies is the right lifestyle choice though.

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