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Birding Shanghai in June 2023

10,000 Birds

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.

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Serbia self-drive birding tour planning

10,000 Birds

The mapping exercise works particularly well with birds confined to a specific habitat (Baranda fish farm S49396968 and Pecena slatina S49396887 ). Penduline T**s were impressively common, with more than 23 individuals recorded during the week, 14 of them in a single group in Centa fish farm (Vojvodina) S49396841.

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The Crossley ID Guide: Britain & Ireland — A Review of the Book

10,000 Birds

Which, when you do the math, means that the guide covers all resident and migrant Breeders, birds that “Occur Year Round”, regular migrants, and then some. It reminds me of the first time I saw the bird in Tours, France in 2012. The text (new text, as we will see) is by Dominec Couzens, British birder and author.

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