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Birding Shanghai in November 2022

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Fortunately for the buntings, they seem to detect most cuckoo eggs smuggled in (75% in one study). A study found that for Plain Prinia , egg characteristics in a mainland China location with many cuckoos make it much easier to spot cuckoo eggs than in a Taiwan location with few cuckoos ( source ). Better safe than sorry.

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Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area

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Blog readers sharing their house with a noisy teenager may consider replacing him or her with a Brown-headed Parrot , given this statement on a pet website : “Brown-Headed Parrot boasts another very desirable trait – these are very quiet parrots! The benefit for the wasps is that they get to keep a beautiful pet.

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How to Identify Food Intolerances in Pets

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For new puppies that are under the age of 1-year, many vets will recommend probiotics, which can be purchased online via a Canadian drug store and dispensed in your pet’s food in order to establish gut balance and good digestion early on. Food allergies and food intolerances affect our pets much the same way they strike humans.

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Easy Chicken Dog Cookies

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Brush top with beaten egg. Use pet-theme cookie cutters for gifts, fundraising or sale! She specializes in natural pet care and also produces her own line of natural fish food. Visit Melody at AllNaturalPetCare.com and read her articles on the All Natural Pet Care Blog. 23 Pet/animal theme cookie cutters.

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 3)

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So, even though this is a bit much, it seems justification enough to continue this series of blog posts – particularly as I wrote this series under lockdown in Shanghai, with nothing much to do. ” (quoted from Tim Low’s book “The Origin of Song”). by taking advantage of the misfortunes or dregs of others.”

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15 Australian Birds (Episode 6)

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When I was a kid (and don’t you hate it when blog posts start like this, with the author apparently just assuming that you care about how he spent his childhood), the first pets we had were a pair of Budgerigars. ” At the same time, they are popular as pets, as they may be the best talkers of the Australian cockatoos.

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Birding Kangding, Sichuan

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The most likely explanation – as judged by the authors – is something called the farming hypothesis, which states that brood parasites such as the koel may deliberately destroy nests as it gives them a good chance to deposit an egg in the replacement clutch. Maybe the species has shrunk in the past few decades.

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