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A Bird Presentation in Shanghai

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The Olive-backed Pipit is a small songbird that in Shanghai can only be seen in winter – in summer, it breeds further north. It has a streaked breast and mostly looks for food on the ground, often in small flocks While it is common around here in winter, it is very rare in some parts of Europe, for example in Britain.

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The Rose-ringed Parakeets of Heidelberg

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This is what happens when people choose their pet birds on visual factors alone without taking vocalizations into account. With 7,500 birds (1,500 breeding pairs), the German population is still rather small compared to the numbers the parakeets have built up in the UK or the Netherlands, where the populations range in the 10s of thousands.

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Parrots: Brazil’s Colorful Avian Clowns

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For one, they are remarkably diverse with a little over 380 species spread over every continent except Europe (only introduced) and Antarctica. Both of these endemic parrots suffer from habitat loss and trapping for the pet trade. Parrots captivate me more than any other bird family. I am a self-proclaimed psittacophile.

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The Parakeet of City Streets, the Monk Parakeet

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But it is most probable that the birds are released or escaped pets. There are a lot of pet psittacines out there that escape or are released. These are extremely large stick structures (some articles compare the largest ones to the size of a car) that are usually populated by multiple breeding pairs in separate chambers.

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Birding the Kruger Park (2): Bateleur area

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Europe has one species (Eurasian Spoonbill), the Americas have one (Roseate Spoonbill), Australia two (Royal and Yellow-billed Spoonbill), and Asia has two as well (Eurasian and Black-faced Spoonbill). The benefit for the wasps is that they get to keep a beautiful pet. But this is too interesting a bird not to show.

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Birding Shanghai in January 2023

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However, the authors call this a “new breeding tactic”, which seems to mix up the discovery of the tactic with the use of the tactic. None other than W.S. of the German Anglers Association. On Chongming Island, an Upland Buzzard seemed to be almost bemused by being mobbed by a single Oriental Magpie.

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The Secrets Inside Your Dog’s Mind

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and Europe. In some cases, their research suggests that our pets are manipulating us rather than welling up with human-like feeling. The Russians began by breeding a group of foxes according to one simple rule: they would walk up to a cage and put a hand on the bars. Other facilities are operating in the U.S.

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