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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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If you are a person who enjoys analyzing the stuff regurgitated by bird chicks, you probably wish to have participated in a study looking at the diet of Yellow Bitterns in South Korea. According to Couzens, after laying the eggs, females sometimes immediately abandon their first mate and pair up with another male. How efficient.

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Best Bird of the Year 2011

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This year I watched them from the day they arrived , until two chicks successfully hatched, the northernmost breeding record for the species. Hoopoe was my Best Bird of the Year despite all the new birds I saw in Busan, South Korea. Pacific Loons by Clare Kines The other Clare, Clare Morton, chose Upupa epops.

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Birding Shanghai in April 2023

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To be honest, both the robin and the flycatchers shown above remind me of the easter eggs I hunted for as a child – the same strong colors in front of a green background, same time of the year (feel free to insert your own Proust Madeleine reference here) … Bluethroats apparently are good at imitating other birds.

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