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Birding Shanghai in June 2023

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This leaves Shanghai in June with basically just the year-round species and the summer breeders, maybe with a few added ultra-lazy individuals of migratory species. Fortunately, there are a few more such breeding species than most Shanghainese are aware of. Such as the Black-winged Cuckooshrike. Such as the Black-winged Cuckooshrike.

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Birding the Ndumo area, South Africa

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Of course, the exact wording would have to be toned down a bit, but a premise such as “I want to adopt you because I would really like to f*ck your mother/father” would certainly find its audience. Mind you – it is indeed a description, not a video, as the research was done in 1952.

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Flock to Marion

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Hannah Buschert was first exposed to birds and birding during a required ornithology course at Oregon State University and she quickly caught the birding bug. These have been used by meteorologists, technicians, and researchers who spend about 13 months on the island at a time researching a variety of sciences. and seabirders.

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Laughing at you, not with you

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” Fortunately, most of these researchers could be taken off their antidepressants after proper sound recording was invented. And of course, I would have been wrong. , varied (or perhaps answered) by even, abrupt, squealing “fwuuuur”. Calls (of race erythrolaemum ) include low, musical purring “squar-squar-squar”.”

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Urban Ornithology: 150 Years of Birds in New York City–A Book Review

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The authors trace the creation of swamps, wetlands, and meadows by farmers, and then the destruction of wetlands by the building of golf courses, the loss of meadows by the construction of train tracks. The first three sections are brief, presenting a summary of the bird’s current NYC status (migrant, resident, breeder, vagrant, etc.),

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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 2

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Feel free to insert your own French joke here (though of course in the US, restaurants now serve Freedom Frogs rather than French Frogs). The breeding ecology of the Yellow-bellied Warbler was actually studied exactly here at Nonggang in 2019 by 3 Chinese researchers. This included recording a total of 77,760 minutes of video.

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Birding Mount Kinabalu, Sabah, Borneo

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A study on the breeding biology of Whitehead’s Broadbill was just published in May 2023 but leaves a bit of a puzzle as the breeding success is described as relatively high, meaning there should be other reasons for the population decline of the species. Of course, only chemists have a rough idea what that might mean.

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