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Birding Balangshan (peak area) in June 2023

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Red and yellow are the colors symbolizing several different things – for example, McDonald’s, the People’s Republic of China, Mastercard, and Kodac. This species might indeed merit a bit more research – the only paper I found on its breeding looked at only 7 nests (of which 3 failed).

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Birding Wawushan, Sichuan

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A paper on breeding of the species was actually researched right here at Wawushan. Indeed, positive assortative mating, based on culmen length, tarsus length, and body mass, was found across breeding pairs. While Giant Pandas are celebrated in today’s China, this was not always the case.

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A long way from nowhere

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They will feed up there and then head north to Siberia to breed. The shorebirds are starting to get their breeding plumage and the first to show some colour are the male Bar-tailed Godwit. An individually marked Great Knot was seen in Roebuck Bay and then observed on the mudflats at Yalu Jiang Nature Reserve, China, 137 hours later!

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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For example, without this blog, would you know that the Barn Swallows of Nanhui are now having their own housing boom, ignorant of the overinvestment that has characterized China’s construction industry? There was a breeding pair at Binjiang Forest Park this June. So, the birds start collecting mud and small sticks.

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