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Birding Tiaozini, Jiangsu, China

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Black-bellied Plover: Known as Grey Plover in Europe and Asia. Eurasian Oystercatcher: Not all of them are breeding at Claire`s beach in Australia. Grey-tailed Tattler: I already made fun of this poor species in my last post. Cuckoo species (Common?): Point for American birders, I am afraid. Proof that there is no god?

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The Final Days of the Danube backwaters in Belgrade: Chinese Belt and Road Initiative is coming to Serbia

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And here in Europe, they are the real deal, an indigenous species and not domesticated animals gone wild. These handsome finches breed in the far north of Europe and come here for the winter only. Annex II of the Bern Convention lists 45 of Beljarica’s bird species, with a further 91 species in Annex III.

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Birding Shanghai in March 2023

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Such programs are somewhat inefficient anyway – in one study , the breeding success of wild male pheasants was 2-5 times higher than for hand-reared and released ones while for females, hand-reared birds were 3 times as vulnerable to predation as the wild ones. Apparently, there is a website just showing stamps depicting bird species.

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Baby Mute Swans – “immutabilis” morph

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Its natural range in Europe was restricted the the surroundings of the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, and in Asia it ranged from Asia Minor to central China. Contradicting this relentless shooting were efforts to establish feral populations in many regions of Europe, both within and outside its natural range.

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Blue Monday turned Black Monday – a picture story

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The Black Stork ( Ciconia nigra ) has a very wide distribution in the Old World, ranging from Spain (an isolated population) and northern France through central and eastern Europe all across northern and central Asia to the Pacific coast of Russia and China.

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The 20 most common birds in Shanghai (Part 2)

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After getting to the letter C last week in a roughly alphabetical order, I will show the second 10 species today. The Light-vented Bulbul is probably one of the two or three most common species here in Shanghai, which is not bad given that it is a fairly attractive bird. The Little Grebe is the default bird on Shanghai`s many ponds.

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A Bird Presentation in Shanghai

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China is developing very fast, and Shanghai is developing even faster. This is often the case in birds – for the young birds, it is more important to be invisible than to impress the other birds of the same species. The Red-flanked Bluetail is only in Shanghai in winter, as it breeds far further North – even further than Beijing.

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