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Critically Endangered: Sociable Lapwing

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Actually, despite the fact that central Asian steppes cover huge areas, Sociable Lapwings breed only around nomadic cattle herders’ settlements, which signifies that this species has evolved alongside wild ungulates, such as Blackbuck and Saiga antelopes, which kept the grass short.

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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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This Cattle Egret has just read a paper stating that it would be 3.6 Now comes my question: Which of the two categories described do you think this paper belongs to? times more efficient in its foraging if there were cows around. No wonder it looks a bit pissed off.

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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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