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It is on its way to breeding grounds mainly in Japan and thus only briefly stays here. In contrast, the Amur Paradise Flycatcher regularly breeds in China, even in Shanghai. The female is optimized for inconspicuous breeding, not for pop stardom. The female is less impressive but still a nice bird to see. Dusky Warbler ?

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MARCH 31, 2022

While I am still not so sure about China’s sense of humor – though admittedly, the issue is mostly a mismatch between what I think is funny and what the average Chinese thinks is funny, an issue that I have had in other countries as well – the country sure has its fair share of Laughingthrushes.

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MARCH 5, 2020

Shanghai is located on the coast of the East China Sea and lies right on the East Asian–Australasian Flyway. This means that every year, millions of birds fly by the city on their way between their breeding grounds in Northern Asia and their wintering spots in Southeast Asia and Australia. And yet it is. So, there is some hope.

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

So, I asked around and was told that Qinghai is the place to go to for birds in China in August. If you think you have already seen enough photos of Elliot’s Laughingthrush, you may not be the right reader for this blog. Probably something about the wing bars, right? Fashion show. Hard to tell without a nametag.

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APRIL 1, 2024

Eurasian Sparrowhawk Based on one paper , one might recommend this female to breed in a city as apparently urban nesters have higher breeding success (though admittedly, that paper looked at rural vs. urban in Scotland, not China). And to end the post, some raptors, never a very common sight in Shanghai.

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APRIL 25, 2020

The annual parade of birds is happening and the feathered participants are dressed in their best breeding suits. Now is when we can venture into the closest park and see birds of the deep woods, species that breed far from town. Maybe one will be right out back. Now is the special time that birders look forward to all year long.

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

While these birds are very much liked by Chinese birders, the species could unfortunately not be named the National Bird of China as the Latin species name of the bird is Grus Japonicus. There is a great song by The Chills titled “ Complex “ Great link, right? it would not be the national bird of the USA either.

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JUNE 17, 2023

Today, I invite you to join me, Kai Pflug, on an extraordinary avian expedition as we explore the vibrant cityscape of Shanghai, a hidden gem for birdwatchers in the heart of China. Birding Beyond the City: For the more adventurous birder, Shanghai serves as a gateway to explore the diverse landscapes of eastern China.

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JUNE 6, 2022

But the stars of the month were some breeding Eurasian Tree Sparrows. Taking the famous statement that Mao was 70% right, 30% wrong (Deng Xiaoping), his decision regarding sparrows certainly falls under the second category. But indeed they vanish somewhere once the people pretending to try and catch fish appear.

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DECEMBER 19, 2019

These handsome finches breed in the far north of Europe and come here for the winter only. Within its Belt and Road Initiative, China asked for this location for the new harbour. Photographed within Beljarica: five White-tailed Eagles by Snezana Panjkovic. I barely started when some sulphur (a.k.a.

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NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Despite not being rare in China, this was the first time for me to see Carrion Crow at Nanhui. The Chestnut Bunting is quite a beauty, particularly when seen from the right angle. Not that easy to spot outside of the breeding season, though relatively quite common. Bull-headed Shrike clearly deserves its name.

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OCTOBER 14, 2021

Located about 2 hours from Xining by car, Qinghai Lake is China’s largest lake. Still, again with the help of the guides from Alpinebirding , we managed to get to the right places to see birds. The Tibetan plateau also has a crane species breeding here, the Black-necked Crane. 15,000 in 2006” (HBW).

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MARCH 9, 2014

They have been here for several months and are currently changing into their breeding plumage and fattening up. It won’t be long and we will watch them fly off into the sunset as they make their journey north to breed. It changes into its breeding plumage and heads off, but has never been seen back in Hong Kong!

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MAY 6, 2012

Are you or do you know someone who is currently anywhere between the north of Australia and the Bohai Sea in China? Even if you are somewhere on the coast in China…have you seen any Red Knot ? Some appear to go directly to China, but are they stopping somewhere like Sarawak? Have you seen any Red Knot ?

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JANUARY 21, 2016

Right: Robert McCormick, by Stephen Pearce. Unlike Darwin, who was a self-funded gentleman naturalist on board, McCormick was bound to the Beagle by his duties and was furious that a civilian passenger on board had usurped his rightful position as ship’s naturalist. There are 11 species of birds that breed in the Ross Sea region.

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JULY 18, 2022

According to the HBW, when breeding, male birds do most of the incubation and parenting while females often leave the nest up to one week before the eggs hatch. Maybe better not to ever meet such a “mother” (given that I have been living in China for too long to be up-to-date regarding political correctness etc.,

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AUGUST 19, 2021

White-browed Tit Warblers breed in high-altitude scrub, with a preference for junipers. In what may be the nicest thing a woman has ever said to a man, she replies “Well, my friend, you’ve come to the right place.” Siberian Rubythroat (Nanhui, Shanghai, China). And it is a great place for birding.

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MAY 2, 2023

Flight Paths traces the history of migratory research in nine chapters, starting with the earliest attempts to track birds, bird banding/ringing (which she traces back to Audubon), and ending with ‘community science’ projects such as Breeding Bird Surveys and eBird. Geological Survey.

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OCTOBER 4, 2021

Then, I was not sure whether this was the right thing to do. Breeding in Northern Japan and wintering in the Phillippines, some seem to take a migratory rest stop (and slight deviation) at the Shanghai coast. Interfering with nature … Both are fully alive, though this is hard to tell on these photos. A happier shrike.

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AUGUST 8, 2019

But the way it is, familiarity breeds (relative) contempt. I have seen this bird right at the Bund waterfront, possibly the most famous tourist spot in all of Shanghai. The Chinese Pond Heron is another attractive bird, particularly in its breeding plumage. So, no, I did not spend time searching for it in Germany.

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JULY 7, 2022

Similar to the (fortunately now gradually changing) situation among humans in China, these birds seem to prefer males over females. ” It might be better to adopt a random male teenager right away. At sexual maturity, some individuals may develop seasonal behavioral problems such as aggression and become challenging to manage.”

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MARCH 30, 2014

They need to go north to breed and we will anxiously await the return of the adults and the juveniles later in the year. Some of the migratory shorebirds will make a stopover in the Mai Po Nature Reserve and the Deep Bay area of Hong Kong, China. Another useful website in China is here. Birding Australia Broome migration'

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JULY 5, 2018

Locations, dates, species and numbers, right? Nevertheless, Nagy was right. It didn’t stop me, although I could understand only dates, some place names (many others have changed) and some bird names (the birds were mentioned by their scientific names and you can imagine how they have changed). But what do you write in your notebook?

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JANUARY 9, 2023

The Bar-backed Partridge is a species of partridge found in southwestern China and Southeast Asia. The Bar-backed Partridge was also one of four focal species in an investigation into illegal bird hunting in Southwestern China. If I can give you some advice: Better not be a bird in China. Unsurprisingly, it is.

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FEBRUARY 8, 2015

Silver Gulls to the right avoiding the Lyngbya outbreak. One shorebird that I have been seeing quite regularly on this beach over recent months is a Great Knot that was flagged in China on 6th April last year as it headed north. It will soon be getting more breeding plumage and heading north once again. Lyngbya at low tide.

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AUGUST 22, 2019

It looks fairly flashy in its breeding plumage, much less so in winter. I am not a big fan of the Spotted Dove , though it has to be said that in the right light, it can also look quite nice. It is much more likely to be found in larger flocks, at least outside the breeding season.

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JUNE 9, 2022

. … Nest dismantling by the Hair-crested Drongo may be an adaptive behavior to increase fitness by reducing risk of future predation and competition for nest sites in the following breeding season” ( source ). The Brown Crake is not that easy to see in Shanghai even though it is breeding here. ” ( source ).

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JULY 3, 2020

And as the windblown birds settled down for the summer breeding season and the wind subsided, I found any concern for which way it was blowing died down with it. Their use in ancient China is attested in the Huainanzi , a collection of essays compiled before 139 BCE. But none came. on The Albany Academy by architect Marcus T.

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DECEMBER 2, 2014

This is evident in the introductory material, which includes sections on The Origin and Evolution of Borneo’s Birds, Conservation in Action, Vegetation and Bird Life in Borneo, Climate, Rainfall and Bird Breeding Seasons, and Bird Migration. Bird images are numbered to correspond with the text.

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APRIL 10, 2016

Both the grey morph and white morph of the Eastern Reef Egret were present and also ten Sooty Oystercatchers and our pair of Pied Oystercatchers that breed a few kilometres to the north of Gantheaume Point each year from July. Most of the Red Knot are in very good breeding plumage now and they do stand out very well on the grey rocks.

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MARCH 20, 2011

The male Bar-tailed Godwit are the first to show us breeding plumage and then the Red Knot and Curlew Sandpipers have two beautiful reds-red wine rather than cranberry juice! We receive some beautiful photos from China of individually marked shorebirds on migration each year as they travel through the Flyway.

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MAY 1, 2014

This shearwater is a Mediterranean endemic, breeding from Sardinia and Corsica to the Adriatic and the Aegean. On our way back, three Common Bottlenose Dolphins show right next to the boat and, some time later, a Painted Lady ( Vanessa cardui ) butterfly appears some 300 metres downwind from the shore. diomedea ).

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FEBRUARY 24, 2019

It does not seem that long since the shorebirds all returned from their northerly migration and already we are starting to see the change in their breeding plumage. The shorebirds will start to leave Broome next month to breed high up in the Arctic and will mostly fly non-stop to the Yellow Sea in China.

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DECEMBER 19, 2011

Guianan Cock-of-the-rock (left) and Andean Cock-of-the-rock (right) by Adam Riley Redgannet’s choice turned out rather, well, pedestrian: I was bloated with smugness after stalking and managing to get a photograph of what I imagined to be a rare and elusive rallid during a trip to Costanera Sur on an Argentine autumn morning.

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FEBRUARY 12, 2024

A paper on the Chestnut-vented Nuthatch titled “Nest-Site Features and Breeding Ecology of Chestnut-Vented Nuthatch Sitta nagaensis in Southwestern China” has 8 authors. While the HBW describes their presence in China as “very local”, they seem to be very common at Tongbiguan.

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MARCH 30, 2023

William also had connections to both China and Napoleon, but I am too lazy to copy these bits from Wikipedia right now. Note: The species was seen and photographed in Kangding, Erlangshan, and Yibin (all Sichuan province, China) on a tour with AlpineBirding. Read it there if you want.

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