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What’s in a Name?

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Call me old fashioned if you like, but I rather like many of these old names, as they put a bit of colour and interest into birding, especially if you bother to investigate who exactly the birds are named after. Collecting birds was clearly a dangerous pastime. Wagner wasn’t the only one to have died from gunshot wounds.

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

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So, the birds start collecting mud and small sticks. While the species favors forested hills at moderate elevations ( source ), there are no hills at all here at Nanhui, so maybe these individuals are outcasts or just eccentrics. Chestnut-winged Cuckoo: This could be your host species! You should try it too. It looks nice 2.

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The Great Bustard Search is On (2)

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This species has suffered rapid population reductions across most of its range owing to the loss, degradation and fragmentation of its habitat and land-use changes in eastern Europe, says IUCN’s Red List. All photos ( 4 ) by Istvan Ham. Later that day, his photos and videos will be hotly analysed and debated.

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The complete guide to Dodo relatives, living and dead

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One of these clades holds a diversity of Old World species in several distinct groups, including an Australasian clade, the green-pigeons, the emerald- and wood-doves, the imperial-pigeons and fruit-doves (favorites of mine), and the subjects of our investigation today, the 15 known members of the Raphini. ” Beehler et al.’s