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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. It concludes that human activity influences the breeding activity of the lapwing. End of side note. How efficient. How surprising.

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The Cattle Egret Expansion

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When you think of invasives, you think of the birds that have been helped by human beings to get where they are, such as House Sparrow or European Starling. They have expanded their range through Indonesia and into Australia and is found in post breeding dispersal as far north as South Korea and Japan. coromandus.

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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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While the conclusion seems fairly established now, the paper still puts it in the usual wordy and careful statement: “The shorter minimum stopover duration of both species in spring may indicate a faster migration than in autumn, suggesting a time-minimizing strategy in spring to reach the breeding grounds as fast as possible.”

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