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African Pythons Targeted for Removal

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Burmese pythons either escaped from pet trade breeding facilities in South Florida after Hurricane Andrew or were released by people who no longer wanted them as pets. The analysis of Python stomach contents indicates that they eat mammals, as small as mice, and as large as a fully grown deer. Rock Python.

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Birding Shanghai in November 2022

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Fortunately for the buntings, they seem to detect most cuckoo eggs smuggled in (75% in one study). A study found that for Plain Prinia , egg characteristics in a mainland China location with many cuckoos make it much easier to spot cuckoo eggs than in a Taiwan location with few cuckoos ( source ). Better safe than sorry.

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