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Elsukdo Island in search of shorebirds

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I checked the tides and the low would be in the afternoon, so I decided to walk to the estuary as it was only about 12 kilometres from our apartment and I had a morning to kill. Well, it was not one of those and it was not in full breeding plumage…I knew that much! Thankfully I knew what that was… a Grey-tailed Tattler !

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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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