10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

eBird states that “small white patch on throat is not obvious and difficult to see” And they use a photo that I submitted as main illustration, so they must be right. And yes, sparrows in areas with polluted air are less healthy. It just looks stupid. Thank god that this does not apply to humans.

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Birds China Eggs Owls 191

10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2014

I was fortunate to spend time scanning open fields, wetlands, and the inlet separating Hong Kong from China with this large group of friendly and avid avian observers. What is a day of birding without scanning malodorous mud, right? Do your research. Frankly, I don’t even know if this is the right species.

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2014 Eagles Asia Groups 207

10,000 Birds

MARCH 6, 2011

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! For a researcher to get from Broome to Beijing it would take over 30 hours, as you would be required to fly south first! Wicked, right? It was observed sleeping after the 6400kms trip.

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2011 Australia Deer New York 143

10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Chinese researchers have actually been able to identify individual Asian Stubtails on the basis of their songs ( source ). Or maybe they are quite excited about clarifying that Muscicapa latirostris is the wrong name for this bird while Muscicapa dauurica is right. .” I am not sure they are aware of their own joke there.

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China Birds Ukraine Killing 169

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? What could be plainer than the Eurasian Tree Sparrow ? Most scientific research really just proves the obvious.

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Birds Sparrows Protection Humane 179

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Given the complexity of the research, the result feels like a bit of a letdown – “northern populations start migration earlier than southern populations, especially in autumn” The species name of the Chestnut-eared Bunting is fucata , from the Latin “fucare”, to paint red.

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Birds Eggs Bangladesh China 197