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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. The Black-naped Oriole is one of the most attractive summer breeders in Shanghai. Such as the Black-winged Cuckooshrike. Bye, bye, Lesser Coucal.

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The Falcon Thief: A Book Review

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Author Joshua Hammer, who previously wrote about a different type of real-life-unexpected-caper in The Bad-Ass Librarians of Timbuktu , read about Lendrum in the Times of London in 2017, realized the possibilities, did the research. And, how they betrayed that trust, stealing eggs for years and, possibly even worse, falsifying research data.

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Serbia self-drive birding tour planning

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eBird is a definite must to keep your list up to date, with many useful tools such as target ebird.org/targets. research papers). Thanks to my research on eBird, I was expecting to find them there, but it was still a great surprise to see so many and hear them so well! This is usually easily found on Google.

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Birding Shanghai in April 2023

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Apparently , the two main factors influencing double brooding are the individual quality of the breeder and the timing of the first clutch. Some hoopoe individuals must like chicks a lot, even resorting to double brooding. Who are these weirdoes? Red-flanked Bluetails make shorter stopovers during spring migration (average 1.7

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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 1)

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And of course, some Chinese researchers worked on the complete mitochondrial genome of the Greater Coucal. Are these the paper mills one occasionally reads about in relation to Chinese research papers? I think they just got what they deserved. A fairly obscure paper reports on the Greater Coucal feeding on a Common Myna chick.