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Flights of Passage: a book review

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A simple, useful world map in outline shows approximate breeding ranges in yellow and wintering ranges in blue, and for some birds, permanent resident ranges in green. Some birds with populations on different breeding grounds move not to the same winter quarter but to far-distant ones – such as the Red-necked Phalarope.

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The Endangered Andean Flamingo

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The status of its preferred wetlands throughout the year dictates movements that often results in a nomadic lifestyle. Egg harvesting to sell as food was intensive then, with thousands taken annually from the breeding colonies in Chile. This may include long distance movements in short periods of time.

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Birding Balangshan (peak area) in June 2023

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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). But fortunately, they make no efforts to restrict the lifestyle of the accentors, ban their books, or prevent them from educating their chicks about sex.

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Dreaming of Congo rainforest: Gabon, Republic of the Congo and the Central African Republic

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The region also provides food, fresh water and shelter to more than 75 million people of nearly 150 distinct ethnic groups. Ba’Aka people are among the most well-known representatives of an ancient hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Other primates include Chimpanzee and Putty-nosed Monkey, several duiker antelope species, etc.

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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. times more likely to be married within his or her own group than random matching would predict. Indeed, positive assortative mating, based on culmen length, tarsus length, and body mass, was found across breeding pairs.

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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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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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There was a breeding pair at Binjiang Forest Park this June. In this spirit, Taiwanese researchers studied Red Collared Doves and found that in larger groups, these birds spend less time scanning for danger when in larger groups (and correspondingly had more time for feeding). Not going for the obvious either.

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