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Birding Shanghai in April 2023

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Red-billed Blue Magpies are occasionally eaten by snub-nosed monkeys. The gory details are outlined in a paper describing that the monkeys eat the head of the bird first but reject the wings. … One sub-adult male caught the bird when it ran into him, and at this time, the other hunting males stopped their chase.

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Acclimatisation Societies of New Zealand

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The Eurasian Blackbird was not found in new Zealand before man, but it is now. One such individual was Sir George Grey, who liberated many animals on his estate (mercifully on an island), including wildebeest, monkeys, zebras, wallabies, deer, cassowaries, emu and kookaburras. We don’t have monkeys, or wildebeest, or salmon here.

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A Quick Trip to the Yucatan

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In addition to Coati we also spotted Agouti , White-tailed Deer , and the endemic subspecies Yucatan Spider Monkey. Sure I spotted the occasional Melodious Blackbird and I was amused watching a Hooded Oriole feeding a Bronzed Cowbird but the birding was definitely less-than-stellar. Not a bad mammal list for a weekend at a resort.

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Secrets of the Swamps

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A boat ride into this swamp turns up usual suspects like Pied Water Tyrant and Yellow-hooded Blackbird , but also (and most excitingly) three species of kingfisher: Green, American Pygmy and Ringed Kingfisher. We managed to see both species of monkey, though – so we were ultimately well satiated.

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How much bird is there, anyway?

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But it happened at that moment that a lot of what I was looking at was avian in nature: a few crows, some sparrows, blackbirds, and other run of the mill inner-ring suburb fliers and flitterers. A squirrel skittered by … a squirrel is not a bird. Photograph by Paul Randall ( wingsonwire.com ) Then a thought occurred to me.

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Hong Kong Trip Report: February 2014

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118 Eurasian (Chinese) Blackbird. OK, this isn’t much of a list, but all wild monkey sightings deserve recognition! ). Monkey at a monastery. Apparently, this species has appeared in the New Territories in good numbers during this winter. 117 Gray-backed Thrush. 1 seen at Guia Hill; 2 seen at Victoria Peak. Rhesus Macaque.

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Collaborative List – April 2017

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Monkey Mia. Monkey Mia. Monkey Mia. Monkey Mia. Monkey Mia. Monkey Mia. Little Tinamou – Crypturellus soui. casa botania. 20 Jan 2017. Thicket Tinamou – Crypturellus cinnamomeus. riparian zone route 254. 30 Apr 2017. Emu – Dromaius novaehollandiae. 11 Apr 2017. Western Australia.

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