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Birding Shanghai in December 2022

10,000 Birds

Further studies are needed …” If you use a bad online translation engine to translate the Chinese name of the Northern Lapwing into English, you will end up with the “Crested Wheat Chicken” (Fèng tóu mài ji). Apparently, this is part of a broader trend – it has also been observed in Taiwan ( source ).

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Three Amazing Things

10,000 Birds

But, getting the nest set up, amorous acitivites, the laying and hatching of the egg, all that, happens earlier. A throat swab sent to the Taiwan Centres For Disease Control helped scientists identify H6N1, a subtype of avian flu that has been spreading in chickens. But individual birds are not migrating sooner.

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