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Birding Shanghai in May

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May is also a good time for herons and egrets, as they are in their full breeding plumage. Little Ringed Plovers are fiercely protective of their cute chicks. Little Curlews are passing through Shanghai for a short time, taking the local sod farm as a surrogate for tundra. Lesser Coucal breeds in Nanhui, coastal Shanghai.

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Summer Birding at Conboy Lake NWR

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Adams, the refuge is one of the few breeding locations for Sandhill Cranes in Washington. The namesake “lake” generally only exists when there is enough runoff during the spring, as the area was extensively modified for farming years ago. Located on the eastern slope of the Cascades near the base of Mt.

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The top-5 birds of 2018

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The next specialty was the Great Bustard at the Pastures of Great Bustard Nature Reserve in the north of Serbia: “The Association for the Protection of the Great Bustard had just about enough counters to cover the reserve and the neighbouring areas (birds often spend the winter in arable fields outside the reserve).

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Willie Creek

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The first creek to the north is Willie Creek and we often visit it on the south side when we monitor the breeding pairs of Pied Oystercatchers. Most tourists that visit Broome take a tour of the Pearl Farm at the creek and learn about the cultivation of pearls that were Broome’s first industry.

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Definitively the Egyptians!

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In short, the accepted view used to be that a small breeding population of Egyptian Vultures inhabited Southern Africa, but has vanished facing the spread of towns, roads and farms. In the 1970s we had two to four breeding pairs, in the 1980s one to two, in the 1990s it was zero to two (irregular breeding).

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Birding crème de la crème: Africa – Ngorongoro Crater to Queen Elizabeth II National Park

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The best season for the north-west circuit is February to May, during the rains when most birds breed. The access road passes the Lake Manyara NP and through communal farming lands within Ngorongoro Conservation Area. Serengeti NP protects a huge swathe of almost 15,000 km2 / 6000 mi2 in north-west Tanzania. Lake Nakuru.

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Western Serbia, or Griffons in the raspberries

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The unpaved road winds up the hill, through a traditional farming landscape of small gardens, meadows and raspberry fields with thickets of the Oriental hornbeam, Turkey and Italian oak, black pine and prickly juniper, where Common Whitethroats (above) and Eurasian Blackcaps sing and Eurasian Blackbirds chase each other.

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