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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. The authors speculate that “human disturbance (i.e. times more likely to be married within his or her own group than random matching would predict. Unfortunately, their overall nesting success was only 18%.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. One of the established ways to evaluate self-cognition in animals (including humans) is the mirror test. There was a breeding pair at Binjiang Forest Park this June. Humanity is not very human. You should try it too.

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Birding Balangshan (peak area) in June 2023

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If such human food is not available, the Yellow-billed Chough goes back to its original diet of (at least in Europe) grasshoppers, as described here. 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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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. She also monitors Pied Oystercatchers breeding along a 23km stretch of beach by bicycle and on foot.

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