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Birding the Great German Poo Trail

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Waghäusel is most faaaaamous for its breeding Purple Herons. Roughly ten pairs of this predominantly Mediterranean species are breeding here, and it is basically the only place in Germany where they are. It certainly is only a matter of time until they start breeding here. In this case, we are looking at a few Pochards.

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Birding Shanghai in February 2023

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I am not sure about the security situation in Iraq these days but at least some people do ornithological research there – resulting in papers such as one titled “Breeding observations of the Black-winged Kite Elanus caeruleus (Desfontaines , 1789) in Iraq” Impressive.

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