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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. Fortunately, some Buddhist temples at least in Thailand have now spoken out against the practice ( source ).

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What Exactly is a Pardalote?

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Insofar as they relate to other bird families, they are perhaps closest to the thornbills, another family that is mostly Australian but reaches as far as Thailand and Fiji. They do need older trees, which host more lerps, and they can suffer due to some land use types. So let’s hear it for the wonderful pardalotes!

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