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Reed Parrotbill – an unofficial city bird of Shanghai

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The Light-vented Bulbul is one of the three or four most common bird species in Shanghai. It is one of the 19 species of parrotbills. All are Asian and characterized by a rather large, parrot-like bill used for feeding on seeds. I would like to introduce two candidates, a bulbul and a parrotbill.

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Gotta love the Alps

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I then lived in Central America where there were more bird species than my bird books (and my competence) could hope to identify. In fact, the photographer, Christoph Malin (who normally spends his time doing/photographing craziness on mountain bikes ) lives in the same village as our factory.

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Business Birding Basics – part II

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The antwren had been elevated to species level and Hilton is just a sucker for anything Paulista, and besides, who needs a reason to go birding? Apart from a juvenile Southern Beardless Tyrannulet we were just seeing roads and factories. It is possible to clutch victory from the jaws of defeat. Of course, the trip was a disaster.

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Collaborative list – December 2019

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They contributed 150 lists accounting for 1032 species and more than 36,000 individual birds. Thus 100 species were missed by the time he woke up and noticed that eBird had reset the counters at midnight(do you guys have nothing better to do?). Gray Parrot – Psittacus erithacus. White-crowned Parrot – Pionus senilis.

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Collaborative List – January 2019

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The engaged and generous beats ( 10 of them) have shared 188 checklists during January and have accounted for 859 species from 8 countries (USA, Australia, Costa Rica, Brazil, Argentina, UK, New Zealand and Serbia. old angel factory area. Red-winged Parrot – Aprosmictus erythropterus. Mealy Parrot – Amazona farinosa.

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Collaborative List – March 2019

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978 species were tallied this month from 163 checklists. Only 123 species appear on both sides of the life list. old angel factory area. Red-winged Parrot – Aprosmictus erythropterus. Blue-rumped Parrot – Psittinus cyanurus. Blue-crowned Hanging-Parrot – Loriculus galgulus. 17 Feb 2019.

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Collaborative list – April 2019

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April was a busy time for the beats with 10 of them contributing 164 lists to accumulate 744 species from 7 countries; Costa Rica, USA, Australia, Serbia, UK, Brazil and Barbados. Red-winged Parrot – Aprosmictus erythropterus. White-crowned Parrot – Pionus senilis. Red-lored Parrot – Amazona autumnalis.

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