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Birding Wawushan, Sichuan

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A paper on breeding of the species was actually researched right here at Wawushan. While Giant Pandas are celebrated in today’s China, this was not always the case. In pre-communist China, Giant Pandas were considered the aristocrats among Chinese mammals. Unfortunately, their overall nesting success was only 18%.

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Birding Balangshan (peak area) in June 2023

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Red and yellow are the colors symbolizing several different things – for example, McDonald’s, the People’s Republic of China, Mastercard, and Kodac. But fortunately, they make no efforts to restrict the lifestyle of the accentors, ban their books, or prevent them from educating their chicks about sex.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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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? Interestingly, Black-winged Stilts display laterality – that is, they preferentially use one eye (the right one) to find prey.

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A long way from nowhere

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An individually marked Great Knot was seen in Roebuck Bay and then observed on the mudflats at Yalu Jiang Nature Reserve, China, 137 hours later! We are remote but what a great lifestyle! Wicked, right? It was observed sleeping after the 6400kms trip. We can see forever-well, till the curve of the earth anyway!

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