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Don’t Feed The Birds!

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Let’s say you’re at a fast food restaurant and you have a few french fries left over and a gull is eagerly staring at you and the fries. And if you have a small kid and are in the vicinity of some ducks and geese? Do you toss the bird your leftovers? Do you feed the birds then?

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Birding Shanghai in February 2022

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Sadly, the numbers of Falcated Duck are similarly declining – it is thus listed as Near Threatened. This is partly due to hunting in China, where about 90% of the species winter (HBW). Like fast food, but free and likely more healthy. And it does not even live in reeds.

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South Florida Specialties Birding

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Yeah, we got great looks at the swamphens and also had Mottled Ducks , Gray Kingbird , Yellow-crowned Night-Heron , baby Common Gallinules , and Black-necked Stilts but the lack of a Least Bittern was indicative of Carlos’s inability to get the truly hard birds. And could we just do a quick drive through at a fast food joint?

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