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Birding Shanghai in March 2023

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In my experience, people eat more food they are familiar with than food that is unfamiliar. And here is the Collared Finchbill , who like me suffers from being less social than others. One paper describes them living in the cemeteries of Yogyakarta in Indonesia. They also eat more when together with other people.

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Savanna Nightjars prove that growing old is a process of becoming increasingly disillusioned

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My life experience allows for a generally calm and balanced demeanor. This is what I am able to conclude from my age-related immense treasure trove of experience, which makes it an indisputable truth. If you feel the inclination to experience failure, try spotting legs on them: Legs: The Expendables 1. Legs: The Expendables 2.

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Keep your Taxonomy out of my Field Guide!

10,000 Birds

Working with field guides and without background knowledge was a horrible experience. I suffered, I lost birding time, and I made the most stupid mistakes imaginable. I was seeing all sorts of small to very small songbirds with yellow bellies and a greenish back in the dense foliage of Indonesia’s trees. I was shocked!

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Birding Gunung Gede on a weekend without suffering a mental break-down, part 1

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Once you manage to spell it correctly – which may take some time if my own Google experiences are any indication – you will find plenty of information online about the birds and the birding within this amazing park. However, the following mental strategies helped greatly in learning to enjoy the nature experience nonetheless: 1.

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