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Bird Butts and Other Matters

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The local Bald Eagles are getting busy, I suspect there is an egg in the nest. While in Mexico, up on the roof of a casa (where I was cooking something up) I saw a murmeration! I’ve seen some interesting terns, and it is possible that I saw a small flock of migrating Bonaparte’s Gulls. Also written up here. The original paper is here.

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Birding Shanghai in September 2022

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The bird “spent five months on Mindoro Island in the Philippines during the non-breeding season and migrated through Taiwan, the Chinese east coast, and the Korean peninsula” and on to the Russian Far East (indicating a certain lack of solidarity with Ukraine). Here’s another cuckoo undergoing a pre-flight check.

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