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Food

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Fish is a popular choice. Grey Heron: Some sizes of fish seem more suitable than others. Yellow Bittern: A bittern recently stuck me with its beak when I freed it from a fishing net. Hurt a bit, but must be much worse for the fish. Hurt a bit, but must be much worse for the fish. Cattle Egret. Brown Shrike.

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Better Birding: A Book Review (& a New Year’s goal)

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Light blue boxes give brief facts on breeding age, strategy and lifespan. Additional information is presented in boxes and with photographs. Green boxes offer Natural History and Taxonomic Notes.

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Herons and Egrets of Nanhui, Shanghai

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A few days ago, I saw a Yellow Bittern trapped in a fishing device. It is interesting to see the different evolutionary strategies of closely related bird species – the various snow-white egrets with their “I don`t give a damn who can see me” attitude contrasting with the ridiculously well-camouflaged yellow bitterns.

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Great Miami Winter Bird Count 2015

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With the amount of enthusiasm and support for this year’s inaugural count, Miami Birding Wave is already considering how to make next year’s event even better with more strategy, more involvement, and more fun. Cattle Egret: 133. Fish Crow: 492. Can we hit 200 ABA-countable species in four days next year? Brown Pelican: 53.

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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? And how do Fairy Pittas get injured and possibly die? The Large-billed Crow ( video ) is one of the natural enemies – in the study above, it predated 19 eggs from four pitta nests. This should not be a problem in Shanghai as the pitta has not been reported to breed here.

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Birding Shanghai in July 2022

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Somehow I did not think Cattle Egrets would eat dragonflies (shouldn’t they eat beef, at least judging from their name?) Meanwhile at Nanhui, Pied Kingfishers are discussing the Ukraine war, corruption in politics, and rising fish prices. but they do.

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