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Some Yummy-scented Winter Birding

10,000 Birds

Two White Storks awaited us there, choosing to stay for the winter instead of wasting all those calories to fly down to South Africa and back, and above us, seven young White-tailed Eagles were thermaling. I managed to find one 3rd winter Great Black-backed Gull. The tally ended up as 200 Black-headed (above) and 7 Common Gulls (bellow).

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Birding Shanghai in June 2022

10,000 Birds

I wonder what Americans would think if, in a Wikipedia entry, a Bald Eagle would be illustrated using a photo taken at an Albanian zoo. Most scientific research really just proves the obvious. As Cincinnati is sort of the place where one of my favorite bands, The National, comes from, I am not going to grumble too much about it.

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