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Birding Nonggang, Guangxi, China – part 2

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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”). Then again, nobody would expect kids whose parents hire babysitters a lot to have a better life either.

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Birding Shanghai in October 2022

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Of course, it is hard to resist looking at a paper titled “Host personality predicts cuckoo egg rejection in Daurian redstarts” Basically, the personality of a female redstart (bold or shy) predicts the responses to parasitic eggs – bold hosts are more likely to reject parasitic eggs.

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