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Birding Shanghai in November 2022

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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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The Bee-eaters of Africa

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After breeding they also disperse over the rainforests and savannas of West and Central Africa, where they hunt for aerial insects. As its name indicates, it breeds in Europe, with good numbers still nesting on the Iberian Peninsula and into eastern Europe, as well as further westwards right across to China.

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