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Birding Shanghai in May

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Understandably, after all the trouble of incubating the eggs. A Tiger Shrike – as always – looks very stylish. Some immature Black-faced Spoonbills may have decided not to go too far north this summer, instead catching fish in Shanghai and looking like a baroque painting.

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Birding Shanghai in May 2023 – Part 2

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The Large-billed Crow ( video ) is one of the natural enemies – in the study above, it predated 19 eggs from four pitta nests. Is it worth a scientific paper if a Large-billed Crow eats a fish? This should not be a problem in Shanghai as the pitta has not been reported to breed here.

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Where could you go birding in Australia in 2023?

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Despite all of the dangers we have-snakes, spiders, crocodiles, deadly jellyfish, deadly fish, leeches, ticks, mosquitoes and then a pandemic-we still have a population of almost 26 million people. Tiger Snake and birds under observation. Foster to Fish Creek. Fish Creek to Buffalo. Echidna-egg laying mammal-500th post.

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Collaborative list – June 2019

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Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh. Jamaica Bay, Big Egg Marsh.

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Combined Beats’ List, May 2016

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Big Egg Marsh. Tirat Zvi fish ponds. Rufescent Tiger-Heron – Tigrisoma lineatum. Fasciated Tiger-Heron – Tigrisoma fasciatum. Bare-throated Tiger-Heron – Tigrisoma mexicanum. Pallas’s Fish-Eagle – Haliaeetus leucoryphus. Gray-headed Fish-Eagle – Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus.

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Combined Beats List – June 2016

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Big Egg Marsh. Fasciated Tiger-Heron – Tigrisoma fasciatum. Gray-headed Fish-Eagle – Ichthyophaga ichthyaetus. Pallas’s Fish-Eagle – Haliaeetus leucoryphus. Tiger Den Resort. Tiger Den Resort. Tiger Den Resort. Tirat Zvi fish ponds. Tirat Zvi fish ponds.

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Combined Beats’ List – September

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Tirat Zvi fish ponds. Rufescent Tiger-Heron – Tigrisoma lineatum. Fasciated Tiger-Heron – Tigrisoma fasciatum. Bare-throated Tiger-Heron – Tigrisoma mexicanum. African Fish-Eagle – Haliaeetus vocifer. Pallas’s Fish-Eagle – Haliaeetus leucoryphus. Tirat Zvi fish ponds.

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