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Birding Under the Influence: A Book Review

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If you followed Dorian’s adventures on his Big Year blog, Biking for Birds , you are familiar with many of these stories, but not the major one, the internal journey that was going on inside Dorian’s mind as he pedaled and birded: his history and multi-year struggle with alcoholism and related addictions.

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Birding Balangshan, Sichuan, China (part 2)

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In fact, it is so good that it merits two separate blog posts. ” Yes, I wanted to put this into a birding blog post, with the spurious rationale that if you are looking for rosefinches, at Balangshan, you have come to the right place. Unfortunately for them, this is what raising chicks requires. This is the second part.

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Birding the Ndumo area, South Africa

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And of course, what you see in the background of these two photos is a Bronze Mannikin , giving me what is perhaps one of the best links in the personal history of my bird blog writing (low standards, admittedly). Mind you – it is indeed a description, not a video, as the research was done in 1952.

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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 2

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The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. And of course, on a rather rare occasion for this blog, an almost perfect link to the next bird (my favorite transition is still the Monty Python one: “And now for something completely different”).

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Birding Shanghai in August 2023

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As you can tell from this post starting with leaf warblers, the ornithological equivalent of watching paint dry (ok, a bit unfair and not really a good comparison anyway, but hey, write your own blog if you do not like mine). Daniel Gustafsson and coauthors looked at chewing lice of the Grey-headed Lapwing. You figure it out yourself.

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Linda Hufford: A Rehabber Comments on “Collecting” Rare Birds

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This week’s guest blog was written by Linda Hufford, who has been a wildlife rehabilitator specializing in raptors for over twenty years. But, he continued, some – but not all – of the researchers drove him nuts. Their attitude was “the rules don’t apply to me, I’m a researcher.”

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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. of nearly 500 radio-tagged releases). of nearly 500 radio-tagged releases).

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