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Birding Shanghai in July 2022

10,000 Birds

But it is all for science, I hear them say. Somehow I did not think Cattle Egrets would eat dragonflies (shouldn’t they eat beef, at least judging from their name?) Swinhoe’s White-eye was just promoted to the rank of a full species in 2018. but they do.

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

10,000 Birds

Light blue boxes give brief facts on breeding age, strategy and lifespan. and is currently events coordinator for the American Birding Association and a research associate in the Ornithology Department at the Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University. Additional information is presented in boxes and with photographs.

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