10,000 Birds

APRIL 27, 2023

Yibin is a typical smallish Chinese city (which in China means slightly above 850,000 people in the metro area, which would make it the fifth-biggest city in Germany but does not get it into the top 100 in China). What a pity.)

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Italy Birds China France 207

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 23, 2020

Yellow-breasted Bunting (critically endangered due to trapping in Southern China – what a shame!). And if you are willing to travel a bit further within China, you can see the Crested Bunting , which arguably has a bit more star quality …. Yellow-browed Bunting. The photo was taken at Xiaoyangshan, about 30 km away from Nanhui.

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South Africa China Germany Family 194

Critter News

NOVEMBER 28, 2010

From TRAFFIC, Customs officers from Russia and China met last week to strengthen international co-operation in tackling cross-border smuggling of Tigers and other wildlife products. Tags: wildlife smuggling wildlife trafficking tigers china russia.

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Russia China Trafficking Netherlands 100

10,000 Birds

JUNE 26, 2023

Of course, for countries with mostly moderate climates such as the US, China, Japan, or Germany, it is always easier to claim that the winter range is the problem (i.e., This name is derived from Commander John Matthew Robert Ince (1812-1850) Royal Navy, surveyor, collector in Australia, New Guinea and China (source: HBW).

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Japan China Guinea Germany 130

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Despite not being rare in China, this was the first time for me to see Carrion Crow at Nanhui. Always interesting to see the same species both in Germany (in my parents’ garden) and in Shanghai. A typhoon in Japan blew a few Brown-eared Bulbuls in – they are common in Japan but quite rare here.

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2019 Japan Birds Owls 206

10,000 Birds

MARCH 25, 2011

The Black Stork ( Ciconia nigra ) has a very wide distribution in the Old World, ranging from Spain (an isolated population) and northern France through central and eastern Europe all across northern and central Asia to the Pacific coast of Russia and China. It was therefore well worth having to clean my desk of the coffee I spilled.

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Germany Asia China Russia 152

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Given the strict covid prevention measures here in China, I have not left the country in almost 2 years now. Fortunately, China still has lots of interesting birding locations left for me. I grew up in a small town in Northern Germany. But of course, it is also nice to remember past birding trips. A pity I cannot draw.

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South Africa Africa Lesotho Nigeria 252

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 8, 2019

Barn Swallows are pretty much anywhere in the world (I just saw them back in Germany). During my last trip to Germany, several people pointed out locations of Common Kingfisher. So, no, I did not spend time searching for it in Germany. So why shouldn’t they be in Shanghai, at least in summer?

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Germany Cattle Blackbirds Birds 136

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 2, 2019

Visited this month were; Germany , France , Austria, South Africa, Hong Kong, USA, UK, Serbia, Costa Rica, Australia, China, Indonesia , Switzerland and Singapore). The year list has reached 2403 , a boost of 174 and the life list now stands at 3875 after beats’ efforts in Indonesia, South Africa and China added 39 ticks.

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2019 China Battery Jamaica 124

10,000 Birds

JULY 18, 2012

Its natural range in Europe was restricted the the surroundings of the Baltic Sea and the Black Sea, and in Asia it ranged from Asia Minor to central China. A happy family of Mute Swans at Waghäusel in south-western Germany, post-trading era. So much for the blessings of beauty. Now, enjoy the pictures.

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Feral Europe Asia North America 172

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

learning to swim” A baby bird ( Robin Accentor , Dulan, China). Several baby birds ( Little Egret , Shanghai, China). A Eurasian Wren (Visselhoevede, Germany). Black-necked Crane , Qinghai Lake, China. Common Crane , Schneverdingen, Germany. White-naped Crane , Nanhui, China. Thus, Kiwi Jr.

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South Africa China Germany Birds 247

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2016

In July 2013, the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources held a meeting in Bremerhaven in Germany, to decide whether to turn the Ross Sea into a marine protected area. In October 2014, during a meeting in Hobart, Australia, the protection of this important region was once again blocked by China and Russia.

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Russia Penguins Whales Whaling 184

10,000 Birds

MARCH 30, 2014

Some of the migratory shorebirds will make a stopover in the Mai Po Nature Reserve and the Deep Bay area of Hong Kong, China. Another useful website in China is here. Last year Germany and Belarus also attached some satellite tags to some of the Cuckoos in their respective countries and all of their journeys are available in one place.

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Belarus Cameroon Taiwan China 162

10,000 Birds

JUNE 25, 2017

My childhood in the 1970s and 1980s was of course shaped by family, friends, playmobil ( very popular in Germany back then), and school but also to a certain extend by the Cold War. As a kid I still understood little of world politics, but I understood very well that all the countries behind the Iron Curtain were off-limits to me.

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Europe Birds Kazakhstan Russia 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 29, 2022

I saw them at Ayers Rock which while I was there had the worst floods in memory (my parents in Germany thought I must be traveling under a bad star, as they heard about these floods in the German news and knew I was there at that time). Nice to encounter a quail that is not as shy as the ones here in China!

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Birds Australia Sheep Zebras 147

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 10, 2022

China is developing very fast, and Shanghai is developing even faster. This bird used to be quite common in Germany, but now it is rare. Some are even building nests and having chicks here inside our compound. In the photos, you can see sometimes male and female (these two can look quite different), for others, baby and adult birds.

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Birds Fish Germany China 162

10,000 Birds

JULY 3, 2020

Their use in ancient China is attested in the Huainanzi , a collection of essays compiled before 139 BCE. And unlike most crystal-clear lagers, Idyll Days is presented unfiltered, in a fairly obscure style known in Germany as Kellerbier (“cellar beer”), leaving it a hazy but very pale straw yellow with a thick, rocky head on top.

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New York Farming Belgium Fowl 157

10,000 Birds

MAY 16, 2022

One of the most interesting aspects of watching birds in Africa is to see different members of bird families that I already know from China. So, if I saw this Brown Scrub-Robin in China, I would probably quite easily mistake it for a Forest Wagtail. The Brown-hooded Kingfisher is one of them. Different bird families, I know.

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South Africa Africa Saint Lucia Birds 222

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 19, 2011

juvenile Parasitic Jaeger by Larry Jordan Jochen enjoyed a plover : My Best Bird of the Year is a White-tailed Lapwing I “twitched” in Germany in June. qn Archaeopteryx-like theropod from China Runner-up: The Bald Eagle that swooped around over the Big Gay Race in Minneapolis in October, which I didn’t get a picture of.

2011 198

2011 Birds South Korea North Dakota 198

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2023

The last time I birded Longcanggou, a national forest park in China’s Sichuan province, was in November 2021. Today, the national forest park is open to tourists – which in China means large groups of people in similarly large buses. But haven’t we all done these things?

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Eggs China Birds Mammals 179

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 4, 2020

December’s numbers looked like this; 10 beats visited 11 countries (Bahrain, New Zealand, USA, UK, Costa Rica, China, Mexico, Australia Nigeria, Uganda and Serbia) during December. They contributed 150 lists accounting for 1032 species and more than 36,000 individual birds. The life list was pumped a further 27 sp up to 3953.

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2019 Chile Texas Sanctuary 186

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 30, 2020

This is a bird I had been looking for for a long time – it is not actually particularly rare in China (in fact, I have heard its call many times and also use it as the wake-up call for my mobile phone), but somehow I had never seen one, to the point of writing frivolous comments in eBird-Lists (“Collared Owlet. A Collared Owlet.

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2020 Birds Costa Rica Germany 251

10,000 Birds

MARCH 2, 2023

Birds marked in the Naoli River Basin in Heilongjiang Province, China, wintered along the Jiangsu coastline in China, while Eurasian Spoonbills from two discrete summering areas (in Inner and western Mongolia) overwintered inland in the Yangtze River floodplain of China.” Like this bird family b. Like bad jokes and c.

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Birds Iraq China Ireland 130

10,000 Birds

MAY 13, 2024

While the species name germani seems to indicate a German connection for this species, it is actually named after a French collector, Louis Rodolphe Germain (1827-1912), for once a name I did not make up. My inquiry included the following sentence: “Do you have female bird guides (I have had good experiences with them here in China)?”

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Vietnam Zebras Birds Sparrows 188

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

The book begins with the discovery of Archaeopteryx in Germany in 1861. Marsh, who feuded in the 19th century, and today’s superstar, the young, prolific Chinese Xu Xing, “China’s answer to Indiana Jones.” Cope and O.C.

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Mongolia Science Reptiles Indiana 195

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 29, 2024

Particularly the latter – Nabang – would in the past easily have merited its own post, but recent developments there that now make the place a bit like the former border between West and East Germany changed that. eBird calls the Asian Green Bee-eater a “small, dainty bee-eater”, which sounds nice and peaceful.

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Squirrels Birds China Bears 143

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 17, 2023

I guess in China, there is always money for research related to Giant Pandas. ” (source: Fritz Hillenbrand, Underground Humour in Nazi Germany: 1933-1945, Routledge: London). One such study looked at the attention the pandas pay to different species, using eye-tracking technology.

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Pandas Research Phoenix Science 130

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 1, 2024

I was thinking of inventing a background story about a Chinese poet mentioning starlings (and other bird species) in one of his poems, and a rich Chinese fan of these poems pursuing the ambition of introducing all bird species mentioned therein to China, explaining the occasional occurrence of the starling in Shanghai.

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Birds Research Science Europe 212

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 28, 2014

You may gather from the bird’s name and the fact that its plumage is lacking any browns that the Red-billed Whatever is not really a European bird, “not really” in that its natural range is restricted to the Indian subcontinent and parts of China.

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Italy Europe France Family 186

10,000 Birds

JULY 4, 2022

For example, without this blog, would you know that the Barn Swallows of Nanhui are now having their own housing boom, ignorant of the overinvestment that has characterized China’s construction industry? As with Chinese male humans, having your own building is still vital to raising young. Nest building: a good activity for a rainy day.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 204

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

A study found that for Plain Prinia , egg characteristics in a mainland China location with many cuckoos make it much easier to spot cuckoo eggs than in a Taiwan location with few cuckoos ( source ). For those who think evolution is a wrong theory, these differences may well have been created by god.

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Birds Eggs Bangladesh China 230