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Birding Shanghai in October 2022

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I used to play Subbuteo as a kid … a kind of tip-kick football game that was named after this species (apparently, the inventors first wanted to name the game “Hobby” but that was rejected as too generic, or so the story goes). The Eurasian Hobby was another notable raptor of the month.

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Serbia self-drive birding tour planning

10,000 Birds

He enjoys combining his passion for birds with computer science background to model nocturnal bird migration. A few tips for Serbia: My favorite part of birding in Serbia was the raw nature of most of the hotspots. I tried to give tips and recommendations in my eBird checklists for those interested. This one was even singing!

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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. Salvin’s Prion.