10,000 Birds

MAY 25, 2023

While having somebody else raise your chicks like an attractive strategy to me, it is not without dangers. The rather elegant-looking Tiger Shrike also mostly feeds on insects but was not kind enough to let me take a video or photo of this (the species thinks that such recordings may result in a negative public image).

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10,000 Birds

OCTOBER 3, 2022

In Common Snipes , apparently, the wing shape is correlated with the migration strategy of individual birds. An example is this study showing that indeed, cuckoo eggs are stronger than the eggs of the host species. Here’s another cuckoo undergoing a pre-flight check.

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10,000 Birds

JUNE 8, 2023

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

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