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The Cattle Egret Expansion

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I’d like to introduce you to a diminutive heron, the Cattle Egret Bubuclus ibis. The Cattle Egret is native to Africa, where it is a familiar sight among herds of large mammals. 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.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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One strange thing about Chongming is the inevitable presence of people fishing. Not professionally – these people come in SUVs and probably never recapture their gas money from the fish they catch (though come to think of it, neither do I with my bird photos). of catching extremely small fish. How convenient.

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The Amazing Exploding Dove Meets Montana

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We remember starlings not skylarks, House Sparrows not Eurasian Tree Sparrows , Cattle Egrets not… well, whatever we’ve forgotten because it didn’t do as well as the Cattle Egrets. Fish & Wildlife comes in response to a lawsuit brought by the Center for Biological Diversity. The proposal from U.S.

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Collaborative List – July 2019

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During July, 11 beats birded 11 countries (USA, UK, Australia, Spain, New Zealand, Costa Rica, Japan, UAE, Mexico, China and Saudi Arabia) and submitted 82 checklists. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Fish Crow – Corvus ossifragus. They accounted for 562 species at this sluggish time of year. These are the numbers.

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Collaborative List – March 2019

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9 countries were visited during March by your tireless beats ( 11 of them); India, UK, USA, Serbia, Costa Rica, Japan, Australia, Singapore and Malaysia. enta fish farm. Cattle Egret – Bubulcus ibis. Gray-headed Fish-Eagle – Haliaeetus ichthyaetus. Sakule fish farm (Jer Lake). Western Australia.

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Collaborative List – March 2018

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During March, 11 beats shared 122 checklists to accumulate 680 species from 8 countries; USA, Costa Rica, Serbia, India, Australia, New Zealand, UK and Japan. Jodrey State Fish Pier. Baranda fish farm. Uzdin fish farm (Private access, must have permission to enter). Fish Crow – Corvus ossifragus. 20 Feb 2018.

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Birding Shanghai in May 2023 – Part 2

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Is it worth a scientific paper if a Large-billed Crow eats a fish? Well, yes, if you phrase it as if it is, such as in this paper titled “Marine and terrestrial food chain links” In another paper , Large-billed Crows in Japan were made to listen to either the Japanese language or the Dutch language.

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