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Birding Chongming Island in summer

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If you are a person who enjoys analyzing the stuff regurgitated by bird chicks, you probably wish to have participated in a study looking at the diet of Yellow Bitterns in South Korea. According to Couzens, after laying the eggs, females sometimes immediately abandon their first mate and pair up with another male.

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Best Bird of the Year 2011

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Hoopoe was my Best Bird of the Year despite all the new birds I saw in Busan, South Korea. Blue-footed Boobies dance, whistle, court with their blue bills, cradle eggs with their blue feet, and cherish their young; they are endlessly fun and inspiring to observe. You can read all about it here.

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Busan to Broome

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We will have plenty more news to share from home as our Pied Oystercatchers are all on round two of trying to hatch a clutch of eggs along the beaches around Broome……thanks to our friends that have kept an eye out for us in our absence!

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Birding Shanghai in April 2023

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To be honest, both the robin and the flycatchers shown above remind me of the easter eggs I hunted for as a child – the same strong colors in front of a green background, same time of the year (feel free to insert your own Proust Madeleine reference here) … Bluethroats apparently are good at imitating other birds.

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Best Bird of the Year 2012

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2012 has certainly been a bumper year for me with an estimated year list of around 3,000 species after extensive travels to South Africa, Ethiopia, South Korea, Indonesia, the Russian Far East, United Kingdom, Peru, Guatemala and Panama. Red Junglefowl by Mike Bergin Clare Kines chose an egg as his Best Bird of the Year.

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