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Birding Balangshan, Sichuan, China (part 3)

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Wikipedia has a paragraph on their interesting mating system : “Home ranges are occupied by breeding groups of 3 or 4 males with 3 or 4 females. The male looks much more interesting, but that does not help this blog post much. I still do not like monkeys very much. I side with the HBW on this issue. So undignified.

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Birding Longcanggou, Sichuan

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As an older Chills song is titled, “Familiarity breeds contempt” (And no, I do not think NZ band The Chills originally came up with this phrase – I can use google as well as any other person and thus know that the expression familiarity breeds contempt was first used in English in the 1300s by Geoffrey Chaucer.

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I and the Bird: What is a Vulture?

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But if we want to continue to throw a monkey-wrench into this all too cut and dried scenario, there’s also the fact that the Old World vultures had a foothold in North America up until the Neogene about 2.5 Panama’s Vulture – Jan Axel, Jan’s Birding Blog. millions years ago.

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Africa’s remarkable long tailed birds

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However Africa has more long tailed species than any other region, and this blog post celebrates a few of these fabulous birds. They follow troops of monkeys through the forests, swooping down to snatch insects that the primates flush from the leaves. Image by Cuan Rush/Rockjumper Birding Tours.

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Hong Kong Trip Report: February 2014

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The BirdForum thread for China (including Hong Kong & Macau) is a phenomenal resource, as are blogs written by HK birders like John Holmes. We’re lucky to read about his adventures and observations regularly on this site, but the Asia page on his own brilliant blog is required reading for any birder heading to Hong Kong.

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Come@Me: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds

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The causes were the usual reasons for island extinction—deforestation by both humans and invasive plants that crowded out native plants, hunting, and invasive rats, mongoose, monkeys, and, of course, feral cats. And, as we find out in a blogged coda to the episode , they can’t even take care of their eggs. On the WCS web page, Ms.

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Birding Shanghai in April 2023

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While the conclusion seems fairly established now, the paper still puts it in the usual wordy and careful statement: “The shorter minimum stopover duration of both species in spring may indicate a faster migration than in autumn, suggesting a time-minimizing strategy in spring to reach the breeding grounds as fast as possible.”

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