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Birding Sepilok, Borneo (Part 2)

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It feels good to start a post with some truly attractive birds – such as two species of broadbills. Strangely, there do not seem to be many papers on this species. In one paper , you can find fascinating sentences such as “The new species is most similar to D. You can see why here.

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Ligers in China

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A private zoo operator in Taiwan cross-bred lions and tigers, resulting in three "liger" cubs. Both species are endangered and it is illegal to cross breed them. From Focus Taiwan. Cross-breeding two protected species is completely against nature.

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Reddell Beach shorebirds

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You are then able to position yourself behind the shorebirds and enjoy their magnificent breeding plumage! It may look quite overwhelming to have so many species together, but at this time of year it is a lot easier to identify them than it would have been a few months ago when they were all pretty much grey!

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Three Amazing Things

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The mechanism by which this is happening in at least some species of birds is very interesting. The breeding season is longer, starts earlier. ” This can also explain why advances in migration timing are not common among species migrating over long distances. Birds have been migrating earlier. ” GannetCam.

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Greater Sand Plover with abnormal colouration

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We are also very much in tune with the local beaches and the tides and which species you can expect at different locations on different tides. This is very useful if you are looking for a particular bird species or even an individual bird.

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Red-necked Stint with a Japanese flag

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They have been here for several months and are currently changing into their breeding plumage and fattening up. It won’t be long and we will watch them fly off into the sunset as they make their journey north to breed. It changes into its breeding plumage and heads off, but has never been seen back in Hong Kong!

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Back to the beach!

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I soon found the pair of Pied Oystercatchers that I was looking for and they had two failed attempts at breeding this year. That chick moved north afterwards once its parents pushed it on and it found a flock to the north at Willie Creek and hangs out with other non-breeding birds. Echidna tracks. Pied Oystercatchers. Whip Snake?

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