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Flight Paths: A Book Review Written During Migration

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It could easily be mistaken for a book about aviation or space navigation or even a flight simulator game if you don’t read the long, adjective-filled subtitle: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration. Flight Paths is a splendid but risky title for a book about bird migration.

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The popstars are back: Paradise Flycatchers in Shanghai

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Such an embarrassingly populist title of a blog post should obviously be followed by some dry facts. Fear not, science has an answer: about 1.16 Here goes: Paradise Flycatchers are a genus in the broader (and rather large) family of Monarchidae.

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Potential Efficiency Improvements

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Why tediously write blog posts when ChatGPT can do it for me? So, I asked ChatGPT: “Please write a 500-word blog post about birding in Shanghai in the style of Kai Pflug for the website 10,000 birds” This is the result: Greetings, fellow birding enthusiasts! Green Spaces? What Green Spaces? You want green spaces?

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 2)

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In the non-breeding season, male Baya Weavers sometimes enter the basket-making trade, often with considerable success. Meanwhile, the females seem to have a much more relaxing life, at least in this early stage of the breeding season. You can see why here. Trust me, the species name makes sense for the male, though not for the female.

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Birding Shanghai in July 2022

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After returning once more from Nanhui and almost admiring the extent of ongoing destruction there, what better song to start this blog post than with excerpts from the song “Give up” by The Burning Hell? The Little Grebe is of course a very common bird that can still surprise by its beauty in its breeding plumage.

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Birding Shanghai in October 2022

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I used to play Subbuteo as a kid … a kind of tip-kick football game that was named after this species (apparently, the inventors first wanted to name the game “Hobby” but that was rejected as too generic, or so the story goes). The Eurasian Hobby was another notable raptor of the month. Not this one though.

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Astonishing Move By UK Government to Control Buzzards

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Skimming through the myriad of posts in my blog reader yesterday I came across a post from the ever-watchful guys at the Raptor Persecution Scotland blog that left me cold with anger. Over the last 25 years they have recovered to the extent that they may now be Britain’s commonest raptor and breed in most of their former areas.

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