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Flock to Marion

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These two islands are about halfway between the tip of South Africa and Antarctica in the Subantarctic Indian Ocean, have had relatively few human visitors, and are primarily inhabited with some of the rarest seabirds in the world and a smaller number of mammals. Just get rid of the mice.

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Rails: The Once and Future Kings of the Pacific

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They often become slower breeders, and most importantly, they lose their ability to disperse, meaning they get stranded on the island they live on. In a few places mammals and humans may endure, but even there, rails will become island species, albeit ones that retain some anti-predator strategies.

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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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